Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Birthday, Shots, Sunrise, Snow

First Annual Birthday Jamboree
 Spending her evening at the new Portland Aquarium
(we love it!)
 After the aquarium, pizza party with family - gifts and her first cookie (browned butter shortbread with apricot jam)

Band-aids
Post Well Child Check-up - she's a healthy bird

Blazing sun
Since we are up before dawn each day, might as well take a photo of a colorful sunrise...

Snow!

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

November Growth

If our life was a novel, Miriam would be the main character, the protagonist, the antagonist, the hero, and the sidekick. She's just that dynamic (and interesting...to us, her parents).

Playful cub


Meeting Abe (cousin Aidan's new greyhound)
Playing with neighbor friend, Davis
 Progress (working on the ADU vaulted ceiling)

No self-respecting Yankee post with "November" in the title would be complete without reference to Turkey Day. We had a really awesome Thanksgiving at Uncle Mike's and Aunt Drea's lovely house.
Mike (my brother) cooking amazing steelhead with caramalized leeks and onions
 Another in a long line of fascinating succulents
 Pretty Thanksgiving Table
 Feast, seriously - brussels sprouts, chipotle maple roasted yams, garlicky kale, tender moist turkey, rich gravy, flavorful stuffing, fresh cranberries, marinated mushrooms, aforementioned steelhead and Spanish red wine
 Mike and Juan (Drea's pop)
 Miriam slays the beast (cousin Aidan) for her after-dinner snack
 Enthusiastic father

Tim's uncle Bob celebrated his 75th birthday the day after Thanksgiving. Go, Bob!
Miriam with Jenna
 Miriam with Danny
 Happy 75th, Bob

Miriam riding off into the sunset at the Brickhouse in Vancouver, WA 
(About 45 minutes later she pushed this horse and herself right over the "cliff" (AKA stage)...traumatic for mom and dad)
 Unapologetically tearing apart her bedroom
 This Santa belongs in a Tim Burton movie
 The Pride of Standing