Portland Graduation

Our weekend spent in Forest Grove and with Randy and Katie for graduation was really great!



















After a very long night drive, we rested up at Randy's apartment and then ventured out to the Seaside beach with Leo the puppy (latest addition to the family).

We also ventured down to Haystack Rock where we had fun playing around and getting wet in the tide pools.

Saturday was the graduation ceremony. The weather was threatening rain, but ended up being bright and sunny during the outside proceedings. A very enjoyable day!


So very proud of Randy and his accomplishment. Can't wait to see where he will go next.
Randy is fortunate to have the support of his family but even more blessed to have the support of Katie's awesome family.

Our fun did not end with the graduation. We went on into Portland for the evening and enjoyed shopping at the Saturday market and visited the famous Powell's Bookstore.


Then Randy took us to one of his favorite restaurants "Fire On The Mountain" for hot spicy wings. We had tons of fun watching Chris and Randy cry there way through the real hot ones!

The only bad thing about the trip was that it didn't last long enough and that Chris got sick with Strep.

Family past

Mom, this blog is more
like the family past, because
this hasnt been written
on sence who knows when...
So here i am, making a new post.

Stranger in the Mirror

Well I hate to say it but I became painfully aware of something this week. I was quite shocked to realize it, I was, in fact heart broken.

I awoke the other morning and started my morning routine. To my surprise when looked in the mirror, I didn't recognize the stranger staring back at me. I'm sure I was not seeing clearly, so I grabbed my glasses and looked again. Some stranger proceeded to taunt me. I stared into her weary eyes and glared at her wrinkled face. I even poked at her sagging cheeks and gave her a drawn out frown. Who was this old woman mocking me? Surely it was not my reflection that I was seeing; I did not look that old! Definitely age had not caught up with me just overnight!

My heart sank as I realized I have never clearly seen my physical self. My mind’s eye always saw me as relatively younger than my age. I hoped age would not catch me and so I have view myself as I use to be.

I left the mirror that morning, putting on a smile and deciding that my mind’s eye was what I preferred to see. I left that old stranger to taunt someone else!

Christmas At Our House

The holiday season at our house was very wonderful this year. We scaled down the gift giving and tried to do more activities together. Because the younger three were with their father the first part of the holiday, most of our activities took place after Christmas. We enjoyed an early morning brunch after Katie and Randy got in town. We spent a day shopping the after Christmas sales. We went ice skating one afternoon and went out to dinner at Goodwood BBQ the following evening. Chris went snowboarding with Katie, Randy and some of the other Wilsons, while Lizzie went snowboarding with a couple friends. All in all I have to say, we had a great time!