Snowshoeing With Baby

We spent the day driving through the inundated Portland Metro Area(this picture is just to prove that we did). First stop was Andrea's folk's to pick up her mom. We got her and dropped off Kirby and headed to Barb and Richard's house down in Clackamas (Johnson City). I wish I could have gotten video or even thought of taking pictures. The street her parents were on was buried! It was totally awesome. We plowed through three feet of snow to pull into their driveway. We made it just fine to Clakamas, picked up Susanna and Grace, and then headed off to Clackamas Town Center where we did some Christmas shopping. Again, no pictures.

We had a great time with the Millers, and then headed back home. That evening, we packed Caleb in his carrier, put Kirby's boots on, and put our snowshoes on and went snowshoeing in our own neighborhood! It was great. We had a fun day playing in the snow.







Here's Caleb all snuggled up.





















Snowshoeing in the streets.


























This is a Christmas tree that a neighbor lights every winter. I love it.


























The Saturn has been left out of all our fun. I might drive it tomorrow since the roads are a lot better, and it has fresh snow tires on it.

Catching Up on the Posting

Post #1 Marylin's



I haven't written for a while, but there has certainly been a lot going on (and that's just Caleb!). I think I'll start with our trip to Marylinn's to see her and Rob. It probably looks a lot like this picture that I took a few years ago. It was really good to see them. I hope we get together again soon.












Caleb is going to have more relatives who aren't related to him than anyone I know. Here he is with "Gramma" Marylin.




















Watching the chickens with fascination.




















"Uncle" Rob.

























Post #2: Murray's Send-Off


We had a little party for Murray to send him off to Romania to get married. Call it his bachelor party. It was good to see him excited. I'm excited for him! It's great to be married!












Post #3: Thanksgiving in Yakima



We loaded up the family and headed to my brother's house in Yakima for Thanksgiving. We drove out there the night before and spent the night. It was quite the adventure: We got there and discovered that all the food that he and Kimberlyn had sent down the disposer had clogged in the pipes somewhere and the water had backed up into their bathtub! ew.
The next day, they decided to call a plumber and he took care of it. It ended up costing them a lot less than I expected. My whole family showed up. It was a great time had by all. Kimberlyn did a great job hosting us!





Justin and Berlyn are vegetarians, so it was up to Andrea to cook the turkey. This was the first turkey she's ever cooked. It turned out great!





















Caleb had fun with his Gramma Wallace.





















Grampa Wallace got his time in too.




















This is my Aunt Marion. She got to have some quality time with him.





















That's all for now. I'll post a few more things in the next few days. From the look of things outside, I'll get plenty of opportunity!

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Pumpkin Carving, Evangelism Explosion, and of course More Caleb

Carrie hosted her annual pumpkin carving extravaganza this weekend. It was great to get together with friends we haven't seen for awhile. We brought the whole family (Nate, Andrea, Caleb, and yes, Kirby). Great times and good food were had by all. Sean and Amy brought their anniversary cake and let us have some too! Thanks guys and happy anniversary!











Many styles of carving were on display: the girls are showing their painting skills, while Sean is utilizing a stencil. Mark is going freehand. I guess we know who the real pumpkin carver is.


















The benefits of making it through a year of marriage. ;)



















Carrie, you're allowed to steal this photo.

























Sunday, we headed off to the Warren's for a crash course in Evangelism Explosion for Kids. Don and Suzzie are in our Growth Group and we had been trying to coordinate a good time to come to their house to experience, first hand, what they do around the world. Great fun was had by all. Sadly, there are no silly pictures of me or Andrea (bummer ;).




















Pat and Stephen talk about the cross. You'd think they were Italian.





















Full contact EE.





















Sarah gets some cuddle time with Caleb.



















There were great views from their house, but sadly, the light was never good enough to get a good picture. Maybe next time. Tomorrow we head off on another adventure. We're heading up to Timberline. We're going the long way though, so we can see the fall colors of the Hood River Valley.

Fruit Loop

So we piled the family in the car and headed off to Hood River on Monday. It's apple season and we wanted to tour the Fruit Loop and pick up some apples and other various treats. It was also an opportunity to go Christmas shopping as well!

Our first stop was at an apple stand that had a ton of different apples. We filled our bags with eating apples and pie apples. They even had apples as big as Caleb's head!







Our next stop was at an alpaca farm. Here's Caleb with some of them in the background.
























They let you feed the alpacas here. Andrea was quite surprised by the reception she got when she shook her small cup of food. They all raced up the hill to get a chance at it!



















This is Opal. She was just 1 week old!




















Here's Andrea and Caleb with the view from the farm behind them.

























We stopped and bought cookies and more apples after the alpaca farm, and then we headed to Draper's for our final produce stop. More apples and this time some jam and fresh apple cider (Yum!!) Caleb got to see some farm animals there. Doesn't he look excited?



















We stopped at a park on the way back down the hill and let Kirby get out and run (he didn't get to leave the car much). Here's me and Caleb next to Hood River.
























Why we own a station wagon. :)

Our first Wallace family photo!

We had a great day, and we all got home very tired. Even Caleb was exceptionally tired despite the fact that he slept the whole time we were in the car!

More Caleb than You Ever Wanted

Caleb has gotten bigger every day. He's up around 12 lbs. now! Andrea has not stopped taking pictures, and has managed to get some great photos.

Here's one of him sleeping in the Boppy.











Our friends, Mike and Mary, gave us a Tigger costume that is way too big for him, but she put him in it anyway and ended up with this gem.

























Here's my mom holding her first grandchild.


























Here's Caleb playing with Grandpa.

























Caleb just hamming for the camera.




























Peace. Yo.





















Here's my grandma with her newest great grandchild.

























Hmmm... He's already learned to sass us and he can't even talk! Truly, we are born in sin.
























Okay, I guess he's not so bad.

Smile for the Camera!

Does it get any better?

More Baby

Thought I'd post a few more pictures of Caleb. He's about ten pounds now! He smiles occasionally and is starting to hold his head up more and more (usually when he's upset ;). He's still not sleeping through the night, but most people have told us that he'll start to sleep longer when he gets to be about twelve pounds. So he's well on his way!












His Aunt Kyna came to visit from the U.P. She was a great help, and was excited to see her newest grand nephew. Did I mention what a great help she was? Since I've been in the thick of rental season at work, Kyna has been able to help Andrea a lot when I had to spend late nights at rental shows. Last night was the last one for the year, and Kyna was able to be here for all but that last one. THANKS KYNA!!

























He seems to like taking baths. Here he is relaxing in the warm water.



















I got to feed him for the first time. It was great!

























Andrea took him to get his portraits done. This is the best of the bunch.

Time to Show Him Off

Okay, it's now time to show off baby! We've shown off our cute nephews before on this blog. Now we get to show off our cute son!


Here he is in his Maemae's arms.


















Just forget you saw the pink binky in his mouth.

























Kirby and Caleb get along very well.


















Kirby loves to sniff Caleb, and then lick him. He knows that someday, Caleb will drop many pieces of food on the ground for him to eat up.



















Big Yawn!





Just think: tomorrow . . . he'll be fifteen.














Caleb has gotten back to his birth weight, and has even pushed beyond it. We have our first doctor's appointment on Wednesday, and they like to have them back to their birth weight by then, so he's doing great.

Mom and Dad are doing fine too, though this is the first time I've been coherent enough to type anything remotely intelligent (which just demonstrates how little sleep I'm actually working on here. I like to joke that you could count the number of hours of sleep we've had in the last week on one hand;). I did discover today a V-8 product called V-8 V-Fusion. I drank one at lunch, and I actually had some energy to finish off the day! I'm going to try and find some 6-packs of it somewhere and take them to work with me.