haircut!!

this one was hard for me. i put off scheduling oren's first haircut as long as possible, until ian threatened to do it himself! so it was time...

and his hair looks great! kassandra did a super job.

coast hike

lovely day for a little exercise!

apparently the remains of a 'big foot' was discovered on the beach below us!

mom - can i eat now????

shem, noelle, and elijah braving the wind.

great coastal forest

Halloween and the coast!

ok - there are a lot of teasers here...the cute costume is at the end.

proposal rock, neskowin, oregon

gorgeous sunset

playing football with shem!

cute hat elijah!

hanging out with elijah

ahhh....time to read

we hosted our annual pumpkin carving and it was a ton of fun, although quite different from years past in that the adults were almost outnumbered by babies!!! chaos...but so great!

here are a few of the results:

ok -- here you go!

roar!!! (oren really liked practicing for his costume)

playing in the living room

news!

I'm so sorry...i've really gotten behind on my posting. so much has been happening. just this past week oren is finally crawling!! it's just the cutest thing to watch, and totally melts my heart when he gets excited to see me and crawls across the room to me. yay!

i'm just going to post a ton of photos with maybe a random caption where needed. enjoy.

nice day at the park