Our Wedding
15 years ago
Happy Birthday Penny
Penny turned 6 this year and her white paws and chin are showing her age - we love you Penny!
Dozer Day 2013
Zoo Day
Our friends Pablo and Crystal Meza moved back to Oregon recently and Crystal and I took Tyler the zoo together and enjoyed a nice picnic lunch afterwards. We had some interesting encounters with the birds at lorakeet landing - they dive- bombed us and we screamed a bit and were scolded by a fellow zoo- goer. We had a lot of laughs people watching too! We watched a man stand in line for 5 elephant ears and then immediately get back in line for more :) and a woman with a large stroller refused to stop walking when Tyler was in her way saying, "I'm not stopping" as we tried to hurry him out of the way... Funniest for us I'm sure :)
Miraculous Marcus
Living on a busy street with our dogs we have always known there was a chance one or both of them may someday get hit by a car. It finally happened to Marcus - the situation couldn't have been prevented - a total accident the car wasn't even speeding... And I am pleased to say that despite being run completely over by the front tire of our neighbors Toyota Camry he is just fine! I was sure he was going to have a broken pelvis and internal injuries but neither! He had some bruises and was sore for a couple days. We feel SO LUCKY and have been calling him our miracle dog!
Easter 2013
Easter Sunday was the hottest day of the year so far and we enjoyed the day with both families! Great food, great company, egg hunts and sunshine - doesn't get much better.
Puddle Stompers 2013
Tyler and I did puddle stompers again this year with my Mom. Differences: no puddles (a complete shock) and it was more of an informative nature stroll. Tyler quickly decided the pace was far too slow and was saying, "follow me everybody" out ahead of the group. He wanted to run and see the river and the group was walking and looking for bugs under stumps. Still a fun morning.
Tyler in a bigger basket
Tyler has always liked to get inside of baskets. But this morning he couldn't fit in his basket that he usually fits in so now we have a bigger basket.
Tubing
Jason and Tyler made a trip to the mountain with his family recently and as you can see the weather was perfect! They went tubing and Jason put Tyler on a pair of skis for the first time too! He hasn't stopped talking about tubing and always asks us if we"remember doing that"... He also sees Mt. Hood and tells me "that's where Dad and I went tubing - mountain Hood".
Christmas 2012
You gotta hand it to the old elf... that Santa really does know what kids want. Tyler woke up Christmas morning to a 3' long Mack truck with a BACKHOE on it! Santa also made him a work bench, custom built in the Sherwood "workshop". (thanks Dad) We had to convince Tyler to open the rest of his gifts because he was so excited about the backhoe. By the end of the presents he had an entire fleet of new construction toys and he was busy all day with them.
The Backhoe
Marcus and Penny getting their stockings
If you notice the hair clippers on Tyler's stocking - he takes mine and Grandma Peppmeiers all the time and pretends he is a crane.
Marcus, Caleb, Tyler, Jason, Matt, Penny, Steve, Jen, Mom, Kameryn, Dad and Justyn
Gary with the Grand kids
Kami looking very excited about having cocoa with her Mom
Happy Birthday Tyler
Happy 3rd Birthday Tyler! I had a construction site themed party this year. I made him a cement truck cake, made dump truck - cement truck and bulldozer garland, coned off our front yard and put caution tape all over our house. He had a great day, we had a lot of family and friends over to share some food and cake for Tyler's big day. Thanks everyone for the gifts!
Santa 2012
Tyler really understands Christmas this year, he knows that Santa brings all the good boys and girls toys for Christmas. Just after Thanksgiving his backhoe toy broke and he has been saying that he will ask Santa for a new backhoe for Christmas. We explained to him that when he sits on Santa's lap that is when he can ask him for what he wants. We have been practicing so he knew what Santa was going to say, you know, what's your name, have you been a good boy this year and what do you want for Christmas? When we were getting ready to leave the house to go he started to get scared, he has previously not really enjoyed seeing Santa. He said he didn't want to go and told us that he didn't want any toys if it meant he had to see Santa. Here is how we got the picture.
Christmas Trains
As if trains weren't already great, make one out of candy! Grandma Peppmeier arranged a full on train making assembly line for Tyler and 4 of his cousins this week. All the kids made their own train. Tyler needed a little help but not too much, he is at such a fun age, being able to be more on his own and do fun projects like this one! His best skill came with the sprinkles, he is more of a "pourer" than a "shaker" :)
Soccer Tot
If I were to look back and change something, I wish I started playing soccer before I was a 5th grader. So, it's official Tyler is in soccer. We put him in a Soccer Tot class at the Tualatin Indoor Soccer Center where I play and he loves it! This is the first class of any kind that he has been in without any parent involvement. He goes out on the field with his coach, Tim, and the only other boy in the class Max. It's great, I get to sit in the bleachers and watch, finally. Tim told me after his first day that he has a natural "ball striking ability" and I told Tim that he, of course, gets that from his Mom :)
They throw out the cones and then go around tipping them back up with their feet. On the first day Tyler organized the cones by color - not really a "soccer skill" but a good organizational one :)
After the cones are tipped up they then dribble the ball around trying not to knock over any of the cones.
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