Christmas Tree

Here are some great pictures including some Claire took herself. Some more funny videos as well. Click the picture.

Happy Thanksgiving

Here are some funny videos and photos of the day. The banana song is especially poignant. Some things to be thankful for. The top picture is a link to the video, the bottom to the rest of the album.

Happy Halloween!

We had a great time taking the girls Trick or Treating. The girls were very cute. We have not carved the pumpkins so tonight we will do that and take some more pictures of them in their costumes.
There are also some pictures here that Valerie took of Claire on her little slide. The amount of different expressions on her face is amazing.
Click the pictures.

Lily eats Solid Food!

She seems to like eating! Here are two videos below. Click here for more photos and videos.

From 20091009

Pumpkin Outing

Lots and lots of fun. Click the picture.

Cute kids and a fall day.

Many, many cute pictures. Hard to chose so you will have to look at them all. Click either picture.

More summer fun.

Mostly John Day but some La Grande. This is the only picture of all 4 of us. Not a great one. Click it anyway.

Summer Fun

Star Wars party, Big girl bed and a trip to La Grande. Here is a great Movie.

Click here to see still pictures.

Day out with Dad

Mostly some pictures of the girls while Mommy was at work. Click Lily for more.

Happy 60th Mom and Grandma.

Our Beat the Heat Beach Trip

It worked out that my brothers family needed someone to house sit on the hottest days of the year. We gladly made the trip to Seaside and had a really great time. The weather was cool and we had a really great time. Claire flew a kite all by herself. Lily has a great time where ever she goes. Click on any of the pictures to see more.

From 20090801

Around the House

Just some fun pictures. Mostly of Lily. Click the pictures for more.

Claire and Lily ride Thomas

We went to the Day Out With Thomas in Hood River today. Valerie's parents changed their plans so they could come with us. It was a good thing, this was my first major outing with the new hip. I was on my feet for four hours and walked at least a mile. I am sore but it was so worth it. You will see pictures from today's outing as well as out annual Father's Day Shindig at Champoeg.

Claire has a fish and a tricycle!

She is so excited. Click the picture with the fish for more of Claire, Lily and their friends.

Lily Smiles!

Finally caught it on camera!

Multnomah Falls

I have a bunch of pictures that I did not get a chance to post yet. I don't know where to start so I am going to post pictures from out trip to Multnomah Falls. Click the picture for more.

Claire and Lily on their first days.

The top is Claire the bottom is Lily.

From Claire

From 20090420

7 pounds 10 oz., 20.5 inches

Lily has grown a full pound since leaving the hospital. Claire and Lily both had well checks today. Claire got a shot. According to the doctor, Claire will be 5'9". He also speculated that I should have been taller. Here is a picture of Lily that is awfully cute. She normally does not look so much like a monkey, except for her feet. We have been pretty sleep deprived so I have not uploaded a ton of pictures. Hopefully I will be able to do so shortly.

From 20090502

Valerie and Lily

If you wonder who Lily looks like, look at this picture of Valerie when she was born. There are a few more pictures of Valerie if you click her picture. Thanks to Mike and Cindy for the historic photographs.

From 20090420 - Lily

From Valerie and Lily

Some more pictures.

Each picture is a different set. The first set of pictures is from this week. It includes Lily's first real bath. It was at about 12:30 am. Long story. The second set of pictures is from today's visit from all of Lily's cousins on the Spell side. We got a picture of all ten cousins on our pathetic little couch.

From 20090423

From 20090425

Lily and Claire

Lots of pictures. Enjoy. Click picture.

From 20090420

7 pounds, 20 inches

She is so cute!

Lily

From 20090420

9 cm. Valerie wants to stretch it out to watch the rest of 24.

The epidural has been administrated and Valerie is feeling good. Contractions less than 2 minutes apart. Going to start pitosin soon.

REALLY strong contractions. The epidural is on its way!

5 cm and getting stronger contractions

At the hospital

The doctor broke her water. We'll keep things updated.

Some funs pictures.

There are a lot of different pictures of Claire here. The one on the blog is Claire watering the daisy that we bought for Lily for when she is born. We have a picture of Claire by the steps with a daisy in the same place. We thought Lily needed her own. There are also pictures of Claire and I at the Ankeny Wildlife Preserve near Jefferson, some pictures of our trip out to Champoeg this afternoon and pictures of Claire playing playing with water. It was a beautiful day.

From 20090418

Easter

Here are some pictures of Easter. Valerie had to work so imagine Claire and I's surprise when she showed up at church. Claire has had a great Easter so far. She ate 4 pancakes at the Easter breakfast. We are not sure what are plans for this afternoon are. Valerie is still on-call. It is so nice that she is home. Claire has been hopping around like a bunny all day. There are a lot of pictures. I actually did not upload A LOT of pictures. These are from the camera I bought because my nice one broke. I miss my camera.

From 20090412 Easter

No words

Click for more pictures.

From 20090407

Claire is 2 years old!

Here is a bunch of pictures from her party. Thank you to all those people who came. It was a lot of fun and it was nice to have all that room at the church. Claire had a blast and no one got sick this year. Click the picture for a bunch of pictures. I tried to be selective about which ones I put up but there still are a lot of them.

From 20090404 Claire's Second

Claire's Trip to the Zoo

We went to the zoo on Friday. The parking lot was completely full and there were about 300 people waiting for the shuttle in the overflow parking lot. We about went home. 3 buses showed up and we got on. It was actually a lot of fun and a really great zoo experience. Claire had a blast. She walked most of the time. The next day, Valerie heard on the radio that it was record setting attendance. Click the elephant for more.

From 20090327

Claire Floats

Claire has learned how to float on her back in the tub. Is swimming genetic?

From 20090326

262

OK. So it has been a while. Here are 262 photos/videos for you. I think 3 birthdays, one move and a trip to the coast are included.

From 20090324

Claire at the Carousel

We took Claire to the Carousel in Salem. It was very cool. Grandma and Grandpa Whitemore were there as well. Claire would have rode all day long. Click the picture for more as well as some video.

From 20090112