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Pig's fly, and Mom's on Facebook. 

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The Girls Go Greek

I am reposting this here. . .forgive me if you already saw it on Becky's Blog.  I just really love their crazy results!  We had so much fun with this :) Tell me which one is your favorite!

So Sunday afternoon Luna and StarGirl reminded me they had a "big project" due the next morning all about the Greek Gods.  It was a big project, but they had a plan, and their teacher had told them they could work together as a team to make things simpler.  They had talked about making a movie with their friends or videoing a commercial, but in the end they chose to each dress up like six of the gods (that would be 12 total) and make a powerpoint with some picniked up photos.  They wanted to know if I would be their photographer.

I looked at the clock.  It was a little after one and we had dinner at Grandma's at 5:00.  That left four hours.  So I felt that with those time constraints a little lecture was warranted.  It went something like this:  Yes, I will take your pictures.  But, you should know, that creativity is much like a gas. . . it will take up as much space as you give it.  And you guys have a limited time this afternoon.  Since you tend to get really caught up in the creative process on picnik, you'll really have to pace yourself.  So what I'm saying in a nutshell is don't go overboard.

Three hours later I was done taking their pictures.
Ummmmmm. . . sounds like mom could use a lecture.

 

 

 

   

 

 

But aren't the results fantastic?

Truman loves a good peach.

Because the city transit is free within downtown we decided to go for a ride. The boys insist any time we go downtown.

Sterling was quite thrilled with the ride!

Farmers Market

Then we headed to a different part of town where they have the Portland Farmer's Market. It is quite different from Saturday's Market. There are no pirates, or people playing musical instruments with flip flops, etc. There is a lot of fresh local food and much more normal people.

Mom grabbed some local cheese and artisan breads for us to snack on. We a had local cherries and peaches...YUM!

(Does anyone know how to post more than 4 pictures through Picasa?)

We made sure to get some fun balloon paraphanalia while we were at Saturday's Market.

Walker was inspired by all the pirates by the fountain and asked for a Pirates hat. Yes, those are Pirates on the fountain. I am not sure what they do exactly. They never performed. I am pretty sure they are normal people during the week, you know bank tellers, cashiers, secretaries, etc. But on the weekends they are pirates by the fountain!

Very entertaining and very Portland!

Mom & Dad's visit to Vancouver

I wanted to post some pictures of Mom and Dad's trip to Vancouver. We had a great time while they were here in August.

We took them to the Fort Vancouver. The boys love looking at the gardens and playing on the canons.

We also made sure to do some very Portland and visit Saturday's Market. Here we are in the Hat and Sock booth.

Pictures of our Alaskan Cruise

Totem poles

Silt makes the water a beautiful turquoise color

Here's our boat

This eagle had had its beak blown off by a poacher, but it grew another one back in its rescue home.

The only picture of the whale I got

This is a bear eating a whale carcass

the train ride was my favorite excursion

There was a family of eagles that lived on top of this

Do you kids remember going for a ride on this when you were little in Victoria?

took this shot for Travis!

fiddle heads at the botanical garden

We sure loved our Alaskan Cruise trip!