Lisa and Oliver visited us for Halloween. The boys had a blast!
These photos are all out of order but way too much work to set them right.







Tobin pushing his buddy Oliver around.







A very disturbing story.


I know the photos out of focus but I love it anyways.


Hunting for the elusive pumpkin at Greenbluff.



Ha, HA! We caught you!


Grandpa sharing with Tobin the secret family witches brew.


What a cutie!!


Thank you Martha Stewart for your two towered idea!



As you can guess, we have no Halloween theme.
Tobin "The turtle", Dave "The Army guy", and Cori "The terrifying".


I know, I'm terrifying.



Thanks Lisa and Mom Vaughn for the great photos!

Hello Sherwood friends! We recently visited our friends Ginger, Curt, Mia and Joesph in Sherwood OR, near Portland Oregon. They graciously let us stay in Joe's room, play with their Wii, hang out and get to know their wonderful kids, eat their amazing food, and set off their extremely inconveniently placed fire alarm!


Dave getting pummeled by Mia, boxer extraordinaire.


Joe giving me his pensive look. I of course had some smiley photos too but left those for Ginger to share.


Ginger's food was as beautiful as it was delicious!
This was breakfast!


Here is most of the crew about to enjoy the Children's museum. What a blast!




Our adorable friend Mia.





Get that alligator's teeth clean kids!


Daddy's gonna get you with that stuffed deer Tobin, oh my!


An early representation of an attempt to share the same coveted toy. The boys played fantastically together.





Thanks for all of the fun!!!

We think Tobin looks so much like my brother Joe in this photo.


You can barely see his little soap bubble beard in this photo. Bubbles are the best.


We think his eyelashes might help him swim. They look about as long as his fingers.
Our beautiful boy.

Medical Lake is a nearby town that has this great park and hiking trail around one of its lakes. We took Tobin here a few times this summer to play on the beach but on this day it looked like about a 1,000 geese left their poo for us to step around. We tried to spend a little time in the water but the poo was just too much. Instead we spent a good amount of time in the playground area and hiking the trail. Tobin likes swinging for about 3 minutes and maybe goes down the slide once or twice but he mostly prefers to spend all of his time playing with the puzzles, mazes, car chasing games, etc. that surround the playground area. We are having so much fun watching him turn into an independent thinking little man.

We visited the Spokane science center Mobius for the first time recently. It is the neatest place! Tobin will be able to grow with the learning stations that they have.

Dave, Dave's Mom Beth, Tobin and I all went down to Richland Washington to see Dave's cousin Evan's wedding and to visit our friends Lisa, Anthony and Oliver. I know run-on. We were able to pack a lot of fun into a one day trip. Thanks for the great family photos Lisa!

Tobin had a big day yesterday. He rode the carosel at Riverfront Park, stood by himself by choice for about 10 secs, had mandarin oranges and mac n' cheese at Friday's and heard the big clock tower strike 6 pm (we were only about 100 ft away) all for the first time!

You have to sing along with Tobin on this one!