My friend Mark got a couple of snow machines recently so we rode them from Mt Bachelor where this road is closed for the winter to Todd lake to do some skiing. Cold and crisp morning - great fun.
The kids had their Christmas production tonight. It was a fun night listening to the kids perform. Abbie had a solo and Hunter played the bass guitar. The night ended with the whole school singing Christmas songs. This is the last year that all four will be at the same school and performing together. It was a special night.
It’s a tradition that each year over Christmas we go to a “fancy restaurant” as the kids call it, and then go to the theater to watch a Christmas movie. This year we went to the Pine Tavern and saw A Christmas Story at The Tower. It was a magical night making memories.
Saturday morning we went to the Bend Christmas Parade. It is so much fun to do holiday festivities on our town. 🌲
Our neighbors have a snow mobile and took our kids and neighborhood friends for a ride. So much fun! ❄️ 🛷
November has been a great month for weather and it ended with a cold snap and 6 inches of snow!
We had our friends - The Tillerys over for Thanksgiving dinner. Great food, great friends.
A couple weeks ago I actually put the lights up on a nice sunny day. That turned out to be a good move with the snow.
We completed the rest of the indoor decorating on Black Friday avoiding the masses out shopping. Noah has been reading the Narnia series and the kids were eating Turkish delight which none of us had ever had so we got some to try. It was tasty!
Just east of bend by the Oregon badlands there is a hike called Dry River Gorge. Today the weather was cool and clear so the boys and I decided to check this hike out. It was only 15 min from our house and unfortunately only accessible from sept- Feb due to nesting bird restrictions at other times of the year.
A great winter time high desert hiking option.
The weather in November continues to be nice so we went up to the lava cast Forest just south of town. The last time I was here it was with Hunter and Noah october 29, 2011 the day after PJ was born - probably to get them out of the house. This time we all went as a family.
The lava cast Forest is an area where lava flowed through trees slow enough to surround the trees but not to nock them over. When the trees died and rotted away they left these circular holes and tubes in the lava.
It’s a nice walk that is actually a paved path and flat most of the way for wheelchair accessibility. The kids of course took off all over the place.