Scott and Tiffany in Oregon

Here is a video of Caleb walking. He also spends some of the time "talking" to Tiffany about the helicopters he hears flying overhead. We have a helicopter training school a few miles away from us. Caleb loves pointing to helicopters in the sky.

This is a video of Caleb playing with the Velcro from the camera case. He also takes some time to wave to the helicopters.

On Wednesday, we decided to take the training wheels off of Tyler's bike. We had heard other parents tell us that it could take hours to get him riding without training wheels, so we were afraid it would take all night.

Scott gave him a push and then he just started riding. We were really surprised we didn't have to work with him at all.

Tyler free-wheeling

Here is a video of Tyler after just a few minutes of riding:

Brooke-isms:

"Mom, can I cross the street? It's blank." - We think she meant it was clear.
"These blinds are dusty. You need to undust them."

Caleb just figured out that he can slide and roll around to get to where he wants to go. Now we have to baby-proof the house. Again...

He will be crawling before we know it.

On Friday, March 7th as a Scout troop we went to Mt. Hood for a campout. Friday, most of us skied or snowboarded at Meadows. Then afterwards, we went to the White River Scout lodge to spend the night.

Once at the lodge, we ate pizza, played games and stayed up too late talking.

In the morning we ate breakfast, played some games and relaxed.

A game of Settlers

Cleaning up

Hanging out

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Mid-morning we went snow tubing on the hill outside the lodge.

White River Lodge

Hiking up

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At the bottom

Here are the mid-air shots:

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And here are the crashes:

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Bob - Grand Finale

After we checked out of the lodge, we went to the White River Sno-park, just down the road, and cooked lunch in the parking lot.

Cooking lunch

Mt. Hood

Mt. Hood and White River

After lunch we played in the snow. Some of the more adventurous used their snowboards.

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Here is a video of Rob jumping and crashing.

Last night was our tenth anniversary. Ten wonderful years of marriage.

To celebrate we all went to the Old Spaghetti Factory, including the kids. We had fun and Tiffany and I will celebrate properly once Grandma and Grandpa can come babysit.

After dinner, we went to Jeff's house to look at the lunar eclipse through Dad's telescope. We all had fun looking at the moon as it slowly darkened and turned red.

Lunar Eclipse

Once the moon was eclipsed, we were able to get a good look at Saturn through the telescope. Unfortunately this picture doesn't do it justice. We were able to clearly see the rings around the planet. The photo is a little blurred because we didn't have a camera mount.

Saturn