We had a wonderful Christmas together as a family. After the holiday, we had the pleasure of hosting Hunter’s girlfriend, Adalynn, whom he met while attending school in Montana. This was our first time meeting her, and we had such a great time showing her around Bend. Addie is an absolute sweetheart, and we truly enjoyed getting to know her better.
Here first time and she did great! She picked it up like a natural.
PJ is really into basketball. For Christmas i took him to see his first (and my first) NBA game. Iwas able to get two tickets in our company box for a Portland trailblazer game on Dec 26 against the Utah jazz. Last time they played in early December the trailblazers lost big time. This time it was a nail-biter until the end when Portland scored the game winning 2 pointer with 0.1 second left on the clock.
It was great fun / I would definitely do that again. PJ said it was his best Christmas gift.
We spent thanksgiving week in Idaho getting our new place outfitted to stay in. Plan is to start renting after the snow melts in the spring. We had lots of snow up there - so beautiful.
See the bald eagle take off from the tree across the river from us
We love the town of Bonners Ferry 25 min south. We spent an afternoon exploring some of the shops and having dinner.
Worked on the house. The seller had to put up some temporary railings to sell which we took down this trip.
Noah taking an ice water bath in the river
The caldera XC team made state again this year. Weather much nicer than last year!
Preston turned 13! He had the boys in his class plus a couple other close friends from the neighborhood - Jasper and Caleb.
We did a box construction project and the boys did a great job!
2nd half of October and weather looking like it might pop into the 70’s in town we decided to head out for a short fall getaway to one of our favorite family spots - little crater campground at Paulina Lake. It’s the latest we have been there in the year and the campground was almost empty with only a few locals there. The hot springs were almost empty on a sunny Saturday afternoon!
Dinner, smores, fire and a sunset made for a good evening and we also got to see the comet again after dark.
Sunday morning was cool and windy but warmed up nicely and we went to the obsidian flow for a quick hike.
First snow on the mountains (light dusting at our house in the morning), a fire in the fireplace.
