Mini Winter Vacation

We took a 2 day trip to the coast earlier this month while Jason was on vacation. It was fun and relaxing, as any good trip to the coast should be! We hiked up to Haceta Head Lighthouse, though it was pouring rain and very windy, just to see a real working lighthouse. This was something that Tyson has been wanting to do for some time...

Tyson made the hike all by himself, as well as climbing the 3 stories to the top of the lighthouse to see the light. We drove up to spend the night in Newport and the following day we visited the Newport Aquarium...
The only thing that we didn't get to do was to fly a kite...it was too wet and windy to try to stand out and do it, but we had a great time and enjoyed what we were able to do. And of course...on the way home we HAD to stop at the Tillamook Cheese Factory to have lunch and ice cream!!

"CHEESE!"

Yes, this is her first bite of ice cream.

Remember when... part 2

Tyson: You learned how to be a Michigan Wolverine fan this year. You joined Daddy each Saturday during the football season to cheer on "Big Blue". You learned the chant, "Go Blue!" We bought some Wolverine t-shirts during our trip to Great-Grandma Herron's in North Branch this summer. We wore them each Saturday in anticipation of watching our team win. Unfortunately, the Wolverines had a rough year, but Remember, 2009 was the year you became a Wolverine fan. GO BLUE!!!


On a side note, at some point during the season, you thought up a funny joke. Daddy would often yell out "Go Blue!!" throughout the game. Most of the time you would repeat it back. On one occasion, you looked at the TV to find out the colors of each team. Then you said "Go White!" (Or whatever color the other team was wearing). Silly boy. Maybe you were just trying to get a rise out of me. Well, it did result in a "What?!", a tackle, and tickle-mania!

This must have been your punishment for cheering for the other team. ;)

Kaiya, you're a Wolverine fan too. You just don't know it yet. ;)

Mama's turn to remember....

I keep meaning to write this in your journal, but then forget..so it's going here for now!

On our way home from our Seattle Christmas 2009 we had no idea it was going to be snowing in Portland. When we were about 30 miles from home it started snowing and gathering along the side of the road. By the time we reached the I-205 bridge (about 20 miles from home) traffic was BACKED UP! It took us 4 hrs to drive the last 20 miles. During that time I was sitting in the backseat of the car, between your two carseats. At most we were going 5 miles/hr at any given time.

Kaiya: It was time for you to eat...so I just took you out of your seat and fed you. Unfortunately you had a big poop in your diaper and we had hoped to make it home to change it. A few hours later I finally just did it...in my lap. Fortunately everything stayed clean. It sure was stinky though!

Tyson: Remember when we were looking at the snow covered trees along the side of the road? I said that the tree branches looked pretty with all of the snow. You said "Those not trees. Those bushes. I tried to correct you and said, "Those are trees, just without leaves." You said again "Those not trees, those bushes."
"No they're not. They're trees."
"Those bushes."
"Ok..I guess they're bushes then..."
"Those not bushes....Those TREES!!!!"
Oh man...we had such a good laugh!!!! You have such a good sense of humor!!! We still laugh remembering back to that. How did you know that would be funny?

Later on we stopped at Home Depot to go to the bathroom and play in the snow..it was a fun time! You two did a great job handling being in the car for 7 hrs!!