531 days

I know that I need to come up with more witty titles to these posts. But if you are reading this then you know us. I am form follows function and well Mary can be more...wordy. We have been just as busy as always. But we have taken plenty of pictures. And without much further ado (i.e. delay), here they are: October 18th as we picked out our pumpkins, October 24th around the house and then in Seattle, October 25th and 26th are good portion of our trip to Seattle for the weekend (just FYI: Jackson liked visiting the Market, a got some special treats), then on Monday and Tuesday we raked leaves ( will it ever stop) and Jackson "helped", then on Wednesday we carved the pumpkins. I have some pictures from tonight and I will get some more tomorrow at little gym. I hope to get those put up tomorrow or early next week either way this should help.

Now 522 days

I know that it has been over two months since the last post on the blog. But I will try to play catch up on what we have been doing in the meanwhile. First of all we have been taking pictures, we have just had a hard time uploading them to the "intertubes" but as you can see from the following seven posts that we are not complete shut ins (although a weekend of that might not be too bad). So, as they say, "previously on our show....", well we sold the Eugene house, closed on the Portland house, had the electrical redone, bought some new appliances (Fridge, washer, dryer, TV ( the old one we inherited from my parents back in 2000). We finally got a mover that was not a flake and got our stuff. We did have a week of indoor urban camping in our house. But we love this place, it is bigger than Eugene, and we got rid of some excess on the way out of town. Jackson has his own room and we have an office back ( where I am now), we are trying not to add to much new clutter. We have also convinced my parents to come out for Thanksgiving ( I am very excited), my brother is coming down from Seattle, but my sister and her fiancé can't make it over from NC (darn short holiday week, we will miss them). We have been unpacking as fast as we can, we have been doing at least two boxes a day. Jackson has been getting plenty of walks with our close park. The dogs however have not been getting the same number of field trips, but they do have the huge (relative to the condo) back yard. We (Mary has) have been doing lots of yard work raking leaves, moving plants, planting shrubs and what not. This last week week went to little gym (no pictures, sorry) he had a blast, and we changed the locks on the house, (oohh, yeah we got a new front door as well, it is like the one we got in Eugene before.). So basically we have decided to do the fixing at the beginning of ownership. There is no reason we should not be able to enjoy the nice house as well.

Oh, you don't care about that, you just want pictures of the boy, oh well then here they are: August 26th (Jackson exploring the new house), September 7th (Jackson just being cute at the condo), September 12th (a messy boy and finding the dog door), September 16th (Jackson and the giant peach), September 21st (busy week: Bebo, finding long lost toys, sniffing Rosemary in the garden and leaning to buckle), September 24 (helping with yard work) and October 12th (exploring the Portland Nursery for Apple tasting). We have some from this last week but I have to save something for the November post (kidding). But as always we have the age progression series (meant to be weekly but is, on average about every 6 days) of the weekly update. We will try to be better but it is not easy.