Parties and OBOB Group

Girls celebrating Aaron's birthday at Big Al's. 

The girls joined up with some of their classmates to form a team... they will be competing in the Oregon Battle of the Books. 

Making slime at Ries' birthday party.

The girls also went to Aero's birthday party!

They painted rocks with pretty designs and inspirational words.

Emily's rock won second place!

Aero's mom is a hair stylist... she placed pretty feather extensions in everyone's hair!

Emily's feathers.

 Lauren's feathers.

 Each person placed one of their rocks under a local tree for decoration.

Ear Piercing

The girls got their ears pierced! Emily went first. 

Emily chose turquoise flower earrings.

Lauren getting her ears pierced while Emily chats with one of the workers. 

Lauren chose clear flower earrings.

Celebrating Diwali

We were recently invited to celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, with friends! 

Emily making a rangoli decoration out of colored sand. 

Lauren making a rangoli. 

Emily's completed rangoli. 

Lauren's completed rangoli.

Girls dancing to Bollywood songs.

Fireworks! 

The home cooked traditional Indian meal was amazing. We had a great time celebrating!

Hood River Trip

We recently went to Hood River for fall weekend getaway! We went hiking at an area called Coyote Wall. 

iPhone selfie!

Girls enjoying fancy drinks at dinner.

We also went to Harvest Fest... here is Emily sampling apples.

The inside of this apple was red!

We went hiking at Lost Lake... the roads and trail were already partially snow covered but still passable. 

The view was beautiful!

Baggenstos Pumpkin Patch and Nodoguru Dinner

The girls and I went to the Baggenstos pumpkin patch on friday afternoon. We took this selfie during the haystack ride to the patch.

Girls running through the pumpkin patch. It was a beautiful sunny day!

Lauren riding on the tractor. 

Emily is not a huge fan of farm animals.

Emily jumping on the haystacks. 

Lauren jumping on the haystacks.

We picked up a rack of BBQ ribs on the way home for dinner. :)

On the weekends Justin takes the girls grocery shopping at New Seasons. One of the workers there enjoys chatting with the girls and always gives them extra big samples.  

Justin and I went to a tasting menu dinner at Nodoguro this weekend and it was AMAZING!!! They were able to substitute fried green tomatoes for the beef tongue. ;) Thank you to MAWS and DD for taking care of the girls so we could go!