Happy Easter

Oscar learned this song yesterday at preschool & came home to teach it to Calvin. This is them singing it. It is worth listening to the whole thing. We'll call this the "Lewis boy version". Enjoy. And Happy Happy Easter!

Jack's 1st b-day

Jack turned 1 a couple of weeks ago. I'm a little late in posting pics but here are a few. We love a party at our house... these party hats have been well used!

So after cake Antie Mandy broke out the balloon animals. She was AWESOME & brought the party to a new level of FUN!!

All in all it was a fantastic time & Jack had a blast!

Hair Cuts

It is hair cut morning! Today was Jack's 1st time. Oscar & Calvin have been customers since thier 1st b-days. We go to an awesome little place called Kuts 4 Kids.

Baby Jack is a baby no longer.....

Happy 1st Birthday Jack!!

Happy Anniversary to us

Today (2-26) is Darren & my 10th wedding Anniversary. He woke up today in Omaha, I woke up here with our 3 little boys. He comes home today though. Ya!




Ours is a great love story (I think). We met in 1994. I was getting my undergrad at PSU in Architecture, he was too but was not a senior. Yes the man is YOUNGER than me. I'll wait for the gasp of shock to pass.




I knew immediately that I had to be around him. I was drawn to him. He was drawn to me too. Although in retrospect it might have been becuase in 1994 I was in a micro-mini phase. Anway, we became best friends. Co-dependent inseparable best friends. By the time we figured out that we were more and announced it to the world all we got was, "goodness....it's about time!" I guess that meant they too thought we were sole mates.




We married in 2000. We spent a fabulous 4 years in San Diego before moving back to Portland were we proceeded to have 3 perfect little boys. I am still drawn to Darren. He is an amazing man, husband & father. I can't wait for the next 10 years and the 10 after that and the 10 after that...




Happy Anniverssary sweetie. Hurry home.

My Dad's Birthday

My Dad turned 65 on Valentines day. We threw a little party for him. He is awesome. He's been an amazing dad, father in law to Darren and grandpa to my kids. Thanks Dad. Here he is w/ Oscar & Calvin. They adore him.

This is part of the reason why he rocks. I have LOVED watching him be a grandpa. All the pressures of "parenting" are gone... only the fun of grandparenting. Turns out he's a pretty funny guy! And Jack is always into a good party. He will love grandpa too. Soon Dad will have 3 little boys who think he is a pretty cool guy. Just like I do.Happy Birthday Dad!! We love you.

Happy Birthday Song

To help the boys know how long to wash thier hands we have them sing Happy Birthday to who ever in our family has a birthday next. Grandpa is next. He turns 65 on 2-14. Here is the boys singing Happy Birthday to him. Side note: Darren taught them to wash hands together & share the sink. How cute is that?

Calvin turns 3!!

We LOVE birthdays in our house. It is another excuse to wear silly hats & sing. Calvin turned 3 years old last weekend.

When asked "what do you want for your b-day" he said... CAKE. Later when asked "what was your favorite present" he said.... the CAKE. The boy is all about the cake. Guess I make a good cake. ;-)

And more odd Calvin lunches....

What IS that you say? Cheese pizza w/ Hollandaise sauce (the grown ups were having it on asparagus).

And THIS is granola w/ sour cream. It was a special request.

Gotta love him don't you!

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.