A big bday thank you...

... To Grandpa and Grandma and Poppa and Nana!

Soccer player Zane

Zane tries out various cheesy thumbs-up poses after his second soccer game of the season, where he was excited to score his first ever goal, and 4 goals total.

Getting the fight on...

My pastor said something profound in a recent blog post. WE HONOR MEN BY BEING TOUGH ON THEM. Hoo-ah, as the Marines would say.

At the UO @ WSU football game.

Abby on her 40th birthday, September 14th.

Looking pretty dang good. Happy Birthday Ab. I love you.

Freshly caught and in some Tupperware...

Garter snake? It's pretty big for one if those.

Rock climbing

Beauty on Buffalo Eddy.

Snake River. WA looking toward ID. Petroglyphs everywhere here at Buffalo Eddy... oh, and a Skink.

Coolest merry-go-round/swing anywhere.

Firewood

Cut up a huge pine out on a farmer's property between Deary and Kendrick. (aka middle of nowhere). Wheat harvest is just finishing here and we got to drive straight across this newly cropped field to get to the trees in the middle of the picture.

Hot dogs, Rainier, and Karsten... Good stuff.

Zane's first class assignment. Interpretation needed.

Little boy heaven... Legos everywhere!

The Stacker

Now that Zane is off to afternoon preschool, it is just Karsten and I until I leave to teach my own Spanish class around 2. I've been trying to teach him how to match socks with very little success. He is, however, a master of folding all of them into a Tower of Socks. And he is a very frustrated little boy with the tower comes tumbling down.

First day of school!

Signe in 4th grade, Gunnar in 2nd, and Zane starts preschool on MWF afternoons.
B-Zay confidently announced that he didn't need us to go with him because he already knew where to find his classroom. We followed anyway to take a picture. He was still beaming at the end of the day and said he loves preschool, then promptly took a 10-minute nap on the ride home.

Signe turns 9!!

And spent the afternoon with 5 friends picking out cupcakes at Swee t Mutin y in Pullman, then bowling at Z eppo s. It was Signe's first time bowling, and after a rough start she got a strike and spare (with bumper bouncing help) to get the highest score of 99. Nana is still in town helping with our new nephew Louie, so she came along too.

Dune running video

At the Oregon coast Holloway's house

Super Cooper!

At the Oregon coast Holloway's house

Sand dune stunting.