We woke up the next morning to a winter wonderland with trees across several of our neighborhood streets, and piles of branches everywhere. You can see my 12 inch ruler in our driveway. In the last picture we’re attempting to get out of our driveway and and up the hill to the airport. I think we left 4 hours early.

We were snowed in for the next several days sledding and hanging out with our neighbors. We got to a point where almost everyone on the street was working to dig a lane up and out of the neighborhood.

After 2 weeks, we were able to list our house on a Friday without fear that visitors might end up trapped at the bottom of our icy hill. We found a nearby hotel with a pool and spent our weekend there, and by the following weekend we had 2 offers and accepted one with no contingencies (We had a pre-inspection, and the buyer had an inspection done before sending an offer).

We rented a storage unit to get the house emptied out, found a realtor we like, and other than that it’s business as usual.

We all test drove a Tesla…. for fun one weekend.

Waffle brunch with some of our favorites!

The kids love these candy making kits we find at Uwajimaya. I would secretly like to do them myself after they’re in bed.

We visited Andrew at work in Redmond Town Center for coffee and cake pops. Aiden dressed for the occasion. I don’t remember why we painted faces, but they loved it.

I took pictures of all their kids in their costumes. Of course, Aiden’s didn’t last all day so here he is. The pumpkin he make is the one with giant eyes right above his head. It’s my favorite!

That evening we headed to Rambo and Axel’s house for pizza and trick or treating. Andrew and I were Dr. Horrible and Captain Hammer from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Aiden and Oliver picked out their costumes with Granny and Papo while they were in town. This rescued me from needing to make Aiden into an eyeball, his first request. He has already commented that he’ll just be an eyeball next year.

After the party we headed home and hung out with Tom and Emily for a bit, then opened presents. We also got to have Aunt Sarah in town for the weekend, so here and Aiden snuggled up to watch Harry Potter together and took Brody for lots of walks.

Andrew and I wrote Aiden a letter (to keep in his baby box) and tickets to a play with his friends, The 3 Little Pigs. We also made sprinkle and white chocolate marshmallows and strawberries for birthday evening dessert.

Aiden practiced his fire building skills with Aunt Sarah, we caught frogs

We headed to the farmers’ market and ate all the yummy food. Aiden happily spent most his time being pulled around in the wagon eating strawberries.

We ate and wandered our way through Portland. At Harlow, where we had golden milk and vegan mac and cheese, Aiden practiced using my camera.

I snapped a few of him with my phone (left), and his photo on the right.

We wandered through shops before our next stop at a donut shop where we got a variety of mini donuts and a flight of chai tea. Aiden also picked a book from the “free little library”.

We were going to swim in the river, but it was too flooded this weekend to get to a good access point. Instead we cooked farmers market hot dogs on the grill and Aiden got his hair done and kept it that way for 3 days!

We baked peanut butter cookies.

We’ve been playing outside and having lots of fun with Arshan.

We made bird feeders using pinecones and peanut butter with Arshan. Oliver was the peanut butter tester.

There’s a theater near us that does kid plays throughout the year, and we’ve been to several. This time we saw Rapunzel. This was the first time Oliver joined us and he enjoyed it!

We loaded up the car to slumber party in Seattle and celebrate Graham’s birthday.

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We’ve been adding a few more landscaping bricks around the house to frame in some of the not-so-grassy areas. I hesitate to call them flower beds as they don’t contain any healthy, growing plants. I love to wrangle everyone into going to Ben Franklin with me (even though alone usually ends up being a lot easier).

Our neighborhood owl has been spotted frequently the last couple of weeks.