Calvin's lunch

Here was lunch tuesday. Homeade granola w/ homeade cranberry sauce. mmmmmm good.
oh - and w/ a banana on the side. Of course.

1st snow of 09-10 winter!

Our 1st snow of the year! So exciting.

And poor Jack - stuck inside w/ mommy. Next year he'll be outside too!!

Calvin's lunch 12-16-2009

So we're starting a new segment today. My second son, Calvin has the oddest preferences for food. I'll start sharing them w/ you. Here is his lunch a few days ago. This is Anne's Mac & Cheese w/ ketsup and grapes. Mmmmmm.

Merry Christmas!!

We've decided to go paperless this year. So I'm posting our Christmas letter here!


So starting at the top. Darren is still with HDR. In this economy we are so thankful he has remained employed with such a good company. He still travels quite a bit, but we choose to focus on the positive which is he has a great job that he loves with a great firm.

Oscar started preschool this year at Hilltop Christian. Now I realize last year's Christmas letter told you that we were going to home school the kids until they turned 8 or something. Well God had something else in mind, at least for now. Who knows what the future will hold but we were led to enroll Oscar in preschool and he loves it. Oscar just turned 5 in November and we are amazed at how old he looks and act. (And we've learned our lesson never to make declarations about what we'll be doing more than 1 year in advance.)

Calvin will turn 3 in January. He has begun to find himself this year. Somewhere around 2 1/2 he started talking. We were a bit worried since that is a bit late, but as it turns out the kid knows quite a bit! And when Oscar is at preschool he doesn't stop talking. As each kid goes through the 2's we think... now this one is the cutest ever. I guess we like that age. So for this letter, Calvin is the ctuest 2 year old EVER.

And then there is Jack. In february of 09 we were blessed with our 3rd little boy, Jack Darren Lewis. He has charmed us. Thoroughly. He gets more joy out of watching his two big brothers run around than anything else. He is such a happy baby and a perfect addition to our family.

So that about sums us up for now. What about Jennifer you ask? I'm still working on my doctorate in home economics at Lewis University. I have decided to become a professional student in that field as I love it so!

Merry Christmas.
Darren, Jennifer, Oscar, Calvin & Jack

Crawling!!

Jack is crawling!!

And here is Darren crawling too!!

Drive by tour

So as I'm sure you know we have all been sick here at the Lewis house. Well that means we have lots of "cabin fever" days. Especially on weeks that Darren is out of town. So today I decided to load the kids into the mini van and do a driving tour of some of the boys favorite downtown landmarks as well as the big Christmas trees. Join us!
Jack








Oscar








Calvin












The tree in the Pearl at Jamison Park













The tree in Pioneer Square










The boys point out that this is OUR max (the yellow line)







The big purple octopus








The BIG lions









The little Lions









I'm proud of the fact that my boys can name the pdx bridges by site!















The train station











The grain elevators & silo's. An Oscar favorite.

The industrial train station on our side of the river.

Finally we are home as we drive by "our" max stop.