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School is FUN

2009-03-17T07:25:00.001-07:00

Piper loves school and here demonstrates how much she loves to learn to spell her words. Doing a great job Pipee!
Piper makes a pumpkin picture on a piece of fabric. The children are making batik garden flags for the Harmony School Auction.

Piper does smell matching at school. She gets all blindfolded up and smells different bottles. A good learning tool to learn smells.

family and friends

2009-03-05T16:07:00.000-08:00

Piper and Marley have been busy these days. Marley has been spending a lot of time smiling and laughing which makes the whole house filled with joy. Piper enjoys being a big sister and a great helper.

Piper helps mama celebrate the big 35 with a yummy cake.
Molly, Brian, Ruthie and Quinn stopped over to bring us some yummy dinner and the girls and Q had a great time playing together. Nothing beats dress up time. Ruthie and Piper are sweet princesses all decked out and ready for a night on the town.

Piper welcomes her baby sister

2009-01-17T20:41:00.000-08:00

Piper is so happy to announce the arrival of her baby sister. Marley Juniper Renata Zurbano arrived at 8:02am on Sunday, January 11th 2009. She has a head full of hair just like Piper did and is a small pint at only 6lbs 8 oz at birth. Piper is adjusting as well as she can now that there is another Zurbano taking some of the attention. But kisses and light pats on the head are given with big smiles. She is anxious to teach Marley how to walk and play with her toys, of course all that will be a long ways down the road, but she is excited nonetheless.

Holiday 2008

2008-12-26T08:29:00.000-08:00

This was a snowy white christmas for the family. Piper loved playing in the snow and helping to shovel the driveway.

Of course holiday gifts were a big hit this year. Piper scored with the guitar and harmonica she had been asking for along with some great games from uncle mark and learning games from mama from Montesorri.

Because she is becoming a big girl who is very independant and thoughtful, she also got her own milk pitcher, mop and bucket, vegetable slicer and sandwich maker. She is excited to be able to get her own cereal in the morning and pour her own milk. She is growing up!

snow times

2008-12-15T20:20:00.000-08:00

Piper and dadda braved the cold winds and snowy blizzard Sunday to play outside. Piper got some sled rides around the backyard and then her and dadda chased each other around the cars and threw snowballs. Mama was stuck inside sick but able to watch from the window and take a few choice snowball photos. Of course the inch of snow led to a school closure the next day, so we sat around drinking hot chocolate, drawing candy canes and watching spiderman.

preparing for the Holi-daze 2008

2008-12-07T08:27:00.000-08:00

The Zurbano family gets ready for a quiet holiday this year at home. We started it all off with a nice Saturday evening filled with Yule tree decorating while listening to Peter and the Wolf. Piper did a spectacular job decorating the house and tree.

OH NO! The wolf just ate Sasha the Duck!!!!!!

Piper and mama get silly
cutie pie

growing up

2008-11-19T15:43:00.000-08:00

Piper has been busy in the kitchen these days. She is our big helper- stirring and measuring, peeling and cutting. The last few mornings she has tried her hand at flippin' the pancakes. She is very careful and does a super great job. Few more years and she can start making breakfast all on her own (does that mean mom and dad can sleep in?)

Daddies little girl for sure. Piper spends an evening playing learning games on the computer. Only the daughter of a computer geek like daddy could pull this off. Pretty soon she will writing this blog on her own.

A new World

2008-11-04T22:04:00.000-08:00

Piper is witness to one of the most important days in our history. Today we elected Barak Obama to be our President. Although she is too young to understand and her sister even younger, this will change their lives forever. She knows who our new President is as she watched on the screen of the TV and pointed saying "there's Barak Obama" .

whats been happenin'

2008-10-29T07:50:00.000-07:00

Piper's Grandmother Evelyn just returned from a cruise to Greece, Turkey and Rome. She picked up a nice little belly dancer outfit for Piper while touring Turkey. Of course Piper loves to wear it and shake her booty, jingling her outfit and dancing around.

Piper has been busy at school and she recently started back at her ballet class after a summer hiatus. She is having a great time in ballet and remembering all of her moves. She is quite the ballerina.

She has also been spending time with her friend Sydney who came over recently for a play date. Here the girls are dressing up for some saturday fun times.

Pumpkin Patch

2008-10-04T20:38:00.000-07:00

Piper and her friend Sydney headed to Lee's Farm Pumpkin Patch for some prime pumpkin picking and tons of smiles. They also got to ride a pony, hold baby chickens and hang out with some calves. It looks like these girls had a great time for sure.

School Days

2008-09-28T20:49:00.000-07:00

No doubt that Piper loves school and all of her friends there. We recently went to the fall parents meeting and had a nice talk with her teacher. Piper has been quite the helper with the new kids, showing them how to do different things around the class and helping to keep the classroom clean (why doesn't she do this at home too?)

flower project with classmates Sydney and Hannah

lunch time with Ana and Hannah

Her favorite 'work' right now are the geometric shaped tiles and grouping them together to make patterns, shapes and pictures. She has intense concentration and comes up with very elaborate pictures complete with a story.

We are so glad we choose Harmony Montessori School for Piper. She grows and learns so much every day and has truly opened up her world, and ours.
-a big thanks to teacher Katie for taking these great pictures to share

Birthdays, Friends and Fun!

2008-09-20T08:59:00.000-07:00

September is the month of birthdays for Piper's friends. A party every weekend has had Piper bouncing off the walls with birthday cakes and games and lots of friends.

COMBO BIRTHDAY PARTY 9/6

Grace, Ruthie and Elyse celebrate birthday number 4 with a big party at Jen and Josh's.

piper, ruthie and grace

frank holds pipers hat and purse and looks so stylish.

Piper gives the pinata a good swing

the party girls

SYDNEY'S PARTY 9/20

Piper was super excited to go to her friend Sydney's party. Piper and Sydney have become wonderul friends this year at Harmony Montessori. Two peas in a pod really.
Sydney, Athene, Piper and Eli play on the swing set

LOGAN'S PARTY 9/20

What luck, 2 birthday parties in one day. Piper went to Logan's party later Saturday and had a great time making new friends, playing on another swing set and eating more cake. Does it get any better for a bunch of 4 year olds.

Kristine helps Piper pin the license plate to the truck
Happy Birthday Logan

Oxbow Hike

2008-08-28T22:20:00.000-07:00

Piper and Mama set out for a beautiful hike at Oxbow park. Piper has been before with her school for a field trip, yet despite the fact that it is only 15 miles away, Mama had never been. What a beautiful place to spend an wonderful morning. We started our hike going down to the banks of the Sandy River where Piper played in the sand amongst the geese and osprey.

We Headed up into the deep mossy forest and sat down for an orange and granola bar. As Piper and Mama enjoyed our little snack, a deer decided to come say hello. She was not shy at all and was curious of Piper as Piper was of her. They watched each other for a while and the deer walked around our bench, hung out for a while letting mama get photos and Piper to get a closer look. We let the deer eat amoung the flowers and ferns and then headed back down the trail with a great story. Piper was very excited to see this beautiful deer so close. What a great day!!

Zurbano Family Reunion on the Coast

2008-08-12T07:24:00.000-07:00

piper writes her name in the sand
Piper had a super fun time on the coast this weekend and had a chance to meet all of her Zurbano relatives. Family came from Canada and the East coast, California and Washington to gather for food, fun and games , some to meet for the first time, others had a chance to catch up on old times.

Piper had so much fun playing in the sand, collecting sea shells, flying her kite and playing tag with the ocean waves. After warming up to her relatives, she had a good time playing with all her second, third, fourth cousins and many other cousins once, twice, five times removed.
Piper and Mama play in the ocean waves

making sand castles

Daddy and Piper get silly with the wavesPiper sits with all the cousins

Piper and mama at sunset

Piper plays with second cousins Maddie and Avery

Piper's visit with Emma and Boss

2008-08-05T22:24:00.001-07:00

piper and sweet little emma.

Piper helped mama and daddy make a nice dinner for friends Jamie and Jordan and their new baby Emma. Piper had a great time visiting the new baby...and getting used to the newborn cries since she will be big sister soon. Piper also had fun playing around with Boss. Boss is a sweet boy who wasn't quite sure what to think of this little person with so much energy. Ah Boss, don't worry-just wait till Emma grows up!!!!!
Piper and Boss. yep, he is a big boy!

Hike in the Gorge

2008-08-05T22:16:00.000-07:00

Piper and Great Grandma Harriet

Piper took a great hike with family this Saturday up in the Columbia Gorge and checked out a cool waterfall. Piper had a nice visit with her Great Grandma Harriet who visited from Arizona. She also got to meet her Great Aunt Vicki and spend some time hiking around.

Piper and Great Aunt Vicki

Piper and daddy. how cute.

Northwest String Summit 2008

2008-07-22T11:11:00.000-07:00

Emmit Nershi Band and friends (Keith Mosley, Daryl Anger and Danny Barnes) play some sweet bluegrass tunes on Saturday.
Piper and mama dancin' away

Piper and daddy hula hoop like crazy

What a fabulous weekend. Piper camped out with mama and daddy for the Northwest String Summit at Horning's Hideout. We played, went paddle boating, hula hooped, danced, sang, watched peacocks and hung out with our friend Stephanie. Piper hung in there until Kellar Williams was over on Friday and stayed up well into the second set of Yonder Mountian on Saturday. We took off while Yonder was playing on Sunday so we could wash off the 4 days of dust and dirt.

Piper throws the goat for a rocking Yonder song. YEAH!

Stephanie, daddy and Piper SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL AND SPEAK NO EVILPiper gets the stylin' ride on her new Radio Flyer pulled by daddy up the hills of Hornings campgrounds

Piper posses with Amber (mama's best friends daughter visiting her dad in OR)the family finally trys out the paddle boats
"i wanna picture with the peacocks"

Vacation time at Nana's

2008-06-25T21:04:00.000-07:00

Piper and Mama headed to the sunny and very hot southwest for a week of hot days filled with cool pool fun. Piper visited her Nana and Grandpa Larry in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Her Grandpa Walt drove in from Tucson and her Great Grandmother Harriet drove up from Prescott to spend time with Piper. Everyone had a great time and watching our little fish or "was it a mermaid" Piper. She started her pool days with arm fins to help her float and graduated to jumping into the pool and swimming to everyone completely underwater with eyes open. It was quite the experience to witness and Piper had so much fun. I think we clocked in with about 7 hours of swim time a day. A very tan and tuckered out Piper arrived home in Portland this past week glad to be home with daddy, but misses the pool (and her Nana and Grandpas) very much.
Piper and Mama floating on the noodles in the hot sun (only 117 degrees)
Piper and Grandpa Walt share some Frozen Orange Juice and laughs
Nana, Piper and Mama jump into the pool on the count of one...two...THREE!!

Four Generations, Harriet-Great
Grandma
Julie-Nana
Brandy-Mama
and our little fishy Piper

Piper, Mama and Nana and Grandpa Larry

Piper and Nana swim underwater

Birthday fun

2008-04-27T20:57:00.000-07:00

Piper's best bud Grace has a little brother Leif who turned a big boy ONE this week. To celebrate they had the party at the Children's Gym in NW Portland. What a bunch of fun this was for all the kids! Piper had a blast on the trampoline and the seesaws, but her biggest fun was the rings. She twirled on those things forever!! What fun we had. We hope that Leif had a fun time too!!

mama's, grandparent's, dadda's and kiddo's all posing for picture before cupcake time!!!!
Piper and Dadda have fun rollin on the seesaw (i want one of these..so much fun)
Piper monkeyin' around
The rings baby, its all about the rings.

Dan Zanes fun

2008-04-26T07:32:00.001-07:00

Piper has been excited all week to go see Dan Zanes on Friday afternoon. To make it an even better experience we were happy to have Jen and Grace and Marney and Hazel join us to dance and shake and do the bug. My little groupie danced on her seat, on my shoulders, on the balcony, and in the baby mosh pit (hehehe) then she wanted to get closer to the stage, and closer and closer and as Dan Zanes and friends ended the show with 'Bye bye my Rosieanna' and danced through the audience, Piper wanted to follow him and meet him.

Mama and Piper dancing away to Dan Zanes

Piper, Jen and Grace watching Dan Zanes talk
Jen and Piper singing and flappin' their wings
Marney and Hazel hadn't heard Dan Zanes before and after a few songs were up dancing and having the best time. I think we have some new fans in the crowd.

Hot Disco Dancers

2008-03-31T08:40:00.001-07:00

Piper and Grace got to do the roller coaster and dance to the love shack on Sunday for the last Baby Loves Disco until the fall. They had so much fun dancing in the bubbles, eating yummy snacks and shakin to the grooves. What Fun!

Piper lets mama give her a massage while she waits for her friend Grace to show up at Baby Loves Disco on March 30th. Piper was a wee bit on the ticklish side, but wanted the massage anyway. There was a lot of laughing going on.

Piper and Grace movin' and groovin'
Are we having fun yet or WHAT!
GOOD TIMES LADIES, GOOD TIMES

SNOW WAY!!!!!

2008-03-31T08:35:00.001-07:00

The cherry blossoms adorn the trees surrounding Portland. Daffodils line the parks, and gardens. It is Spring Time...with SNOW? Piper stands in our front yard with flowers and snow. Crazy days indeed! While not enough fell or stuck to the ground, it was kind of fun, and yet scary at the same time to see Snow in Spring.

Disco Mania

2008-02-25T07:51:00.001-08:00

It's that time again!!!! Baby Loves Disco back in Portland. While mama worked the event doing free massages for mama's and papa's, Piper and Daddy twirled and danced away to some funky disco beats. Piper had a great time and was a star disco queen. Next time we hope Grace can dance with Piper at the last BLD until the Fall.

"mama, mama...i shake my booty"
The best dressed disco queen on the floor. shake it baby shake it!!

Guinea Pigs visit

2008-02-25T07:48:00.001-08:00

The classroom Guinea Pigs from Piper's Montessori School came to visit for the weekend. Piper learned to feed and water them and give them lots of love. We took them out to play on the grass while the sun was shinning. They didn't do much but sit there...the excitement of guniea pigs.

Here Piper and mama play with ElisPiper hold Daddy the piggie
Piper, Dada and Dodger watch Elis explore the wild outdoors.

DINOSAUR INVASION

2008-02-21T18:23:00.001-08:00

Piper has recently discovered that Dinosaurs are pretty cool and was super excited that they made an invasion at OMSI. We headed down to OMSI to check out the big meat eaters with big heads and the leafy green eaters with long necks. She thought they were pretty darn neat and made out like a bandit with some smaller versions to take home. Hopefully they won't eat all of her safari animals.

Snowy Iowa

2008-02-07T10:57:00.001-08:00

oh man, nothing like Iowa for some fun snow time. Mama, Piper and Dada throw snowballs in the backyard of Grandma's house. Piper couldn't get enough and ganged up with Dada to tackle mama with snow.Best picture EVER!! Dada and Piper getting ready to slide down the hill.
And there she goes!!!!! What good times sledding down the hill in the back yard. Dada and mama take turns hauling Piper up the hill and watching her fly down. WEEEEEEEEEEEE

Time with Family

2008-02-07T10:50:00.001-08:00

The family was in Iowa for a few days saying goodbye to Grandpa and spending time with friends and family.

Piper doesn't feel like taking a picture right now. Mama and Dada with Tito Mark and Grandma in Iowa. ahhhh, nothing like chocolate covered pineapples to make the day go by.
Mama and Dada and Piper with friends Witt, Holly and their son and friend Julie.

First day of School

2008-01-16T21:48:00.000-08:00

Piper is so excited to have started school. It has been practically the topic of all conversation for the past 3 months.

Now she looks forward to each morning and eagerly gets ready for school. She loves her teacher Katie and the other kids in class. What is so great about her school is that she is in a new classroom called the "Ocean Room" where there are currently 5 children. Piper gets great attention and the wonderful individual style of Montessori is just what she needed.

We are so glad she is thriving, even after only 2 weeks. We look forward to more wonderful things and happy school days to come.

what a great yuletide

2007-12-27T08:50:00.001-08:00

Piper gets her first doll. We avoided it as long as we could, be she finally got into the whole doll thing and Ariel was who she wanted. Nana supplied the dream come true here.

Piper was so excited for Santa to come this year. She has been such a good girl this year, that Santa made sure to stop at our house to spread some holiday cheer our way. While we tried to emphasize the excitement of the holiday by expressing the reason behind Winter Solstice and Yuletide, the new year, the birth of the Sun from the Goddess Moon, Piper was still excited about presents. Well, she is a kid. We hope everyone had a great holiday.

Piper LOVES her new camera most of all. She is our new resident photographer

happy holidays

2007-12-16T21:34:00.000-08:00

Piper and Dodger pose in front of the holiday tree. We are anxiously awaiting a visit from Santa.

Plie, Passe and arabesque!!!

2007-11-09T21:14:00.000-08:00

Piper has really enjoyed taking ballet this month with her great friends Grace and Ruthie. it is a little difficult to take pictures that aren't blurry, but i got a few as they danced around with their scarfs at the end of class. She is excited to be signed up for another class starting next week. We may have a Natasha on our hands!!!!!

the silly days of fall

2007-11-09T21:07:00.000-08:00

The fall time is upon us again in Portland and we spend our days dressing up, playing with our new family member Dodger and being silly. Isn't it great!

piper and dodger take a quick break from playing around to make silly faces for the camera.

piper is all about dressing up these days. being a princess is of course one of the favorites of many. here she poses for us with her tiara and cute smile.

piper and dodger play around in the fall leaves. Piper is in there somewhere hiding.

Puzzle Queen

2007-10-16T15:10:00.000-07:00

Piper has taken a fancy to puzzles. She started with your standard big 24 piece puzzle of Ariel the mermaid. She quickly advanced to a floor size 46 piece. Then she went to a double sided 48 piece puzzle. Now she is tackling a 100 piece Disney Princess puzzle. This one takes her quite a bit longer and she needs a little more help from mama or dadda, but she loves it nonetheless. I am sure it won't be long before she will be taking on a 500 piecer. You go Girl!

Pumpkin Patch 2007

2007-10-15T21:06:00.000-07:00

It's that time of the year again. Leaves are falling, grass is greener. The crisp autumn air fills your lungs and spirit. We took advantage of a beautiful October Sunday afternoon and headed to the very crowded pumpkin patch at suavie's island. We had a great time on the hay ride and wading through vines and looking for the perfect one.

Piper had a great time...

and so did mama and dadda.

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE

2007-10-06T20:57:00.000-07:00

Mama finally did it. Piper and mama spending so many cold days together just called for some old fashioned cookie making. Not just any cookie...but CHOCOLATE CHIP. Piper hasn't had much in the way of chocolate, so this is a mighty big deal. Needless to say (she is a girl!) she loved the chocolate. Yes mama, you probably just created a monster...but she is cute.

it's good to have friends

2007-10-06T20:54:00.001-07:00

Piper and Grace look soooo cute holding hands while walking with their mama's to a coffee shop. They had just finished their first ballet class and they had a blast. It's good to have friends.

ham a lot

2007-09-26T22:54:00.000-07:00

Piper hammed it up for the camera this morning getting ready to go to Sandy's for the day. She asked mama to take a picture and gave some great poses. it was hard to choose from the silly pictures. Piper thought they were funny. She was also into showing off her new kitty rain boots which she was quite excited to wear today.

Piper and Teeb

2007-09-26T22:17:00.000-07:00

Piper LOVES our friend Teeb. She gets super excited every time he comes over wanting him to play animals, help with a puzzle or watch peter pan. We got a few pictures of them having a fun Sunday evening playing around. We are sad that Teeb is moving back to Louisiana for a while. Piper will miss Teeb fighting off the crocodiles that tend to swim around our couches and rugs in the living room and the lions that appear from down the hall and in the kitchen.

Oaks Park

2007-09-08T21:15:00.001-07:00

Piper , Dadda and our friend Steve took Piper to Oaks Park this weekend while Mama was at her dragon boat races. Dadda had a company picnic there and Steve and Piper joined in on the fun. Piper had so much fun riding in the train, on the carousel, froggy ride and even the ferris wheel and roller coaster. We had no idea how much of an amusement ride crazed child Piper is. She was all about the speed, turns and heights as she got onto ride after ride. Now we really can't wait to take her to Disneyland for birthday number 5!

Dadda and Piper ride the trolley train. Dadda being silly as always.Piper and Dadda have fun on the ferris wheel

Piper and Steve gettyup on the carousel horsey.
I love this picture. It looks like she has wings...ahhh, our angel

Powell Butte hike

2007-08-31T12:31:00.001-07:00

Piper and mama took advantage of a most beautiful Friday and went on a little hike up to Powell Butte. We saw snakes and hawks and picked a google of blackberries for a blackberry pie. Piper had fun running the trail and chasing bluebirds and finches that darted around the trees and trail.
Piper is lovin' the sun and being silly.

mama finds the most beautiful tree and piper takes a pose in front

piper and mama take a quick break and smile for the camera.

Soap box derby

2007-08-31T12:25:00.000-07:00

Dada and Teeb took Piper up to Mt. Tabor for the Annual Soap Box Derby races a few weeks ago. They had a super fun time watching all the crazy derby cars from king kong to tecate stands race down the hill. Piper was very intrigued with the unicorns that followed Noah's ark (apparently people don't believe in unicorns because they weren't on noahs ark and got left behind-not familiar with the story) but Piper loved them anyway

what's been going on?

2007-08-21T20:45:00.000-07:00

Piper has been busy lately. First Nana came back to visit for week, then Grandma and Grandpa stayed for a few weeks and watched Piper while mama and daddy went to a String Cheese concert!

Piper and Grace chill out on the couch at mama's new massage business. They were so excited to see each other and had a blast playing with the balloons and eating quiche. Mama had her big grand opening the 18th of August.Piper has been to more weddings at 3 than mama has almost her whole life! We were happy to attend Jason Landis and Sarah's wedding, which was beautiful and fun. 7/22/07

Dada, Mama, Piper, Corrina, Dave, and Raya at Landis after wedding day BBQ. 7/23/07

Piper turns 3-yippee

2007-07-19T08:34:00.001-07:00

Piper had a great time celebrating her big birthday number 3!! She had lots of friends over for her party that included 2 kiddie pools (the most popular) and crafts of glitter and feathers and glue...oh my! She talked about her party for weeks before and after and all about her friends that helped her to celebrate.
Nothing like friends, family some sun and water mixed with a little food and crafts to have a great time.

Piper gets a great book from our friend Kim (she paddles in Dragonboats with Mama)

Piper checks out the cool fish mobile Nana got her in Mexico.

kids everywhere playing in the pool, the playhouse and tunnel.

Piper opens her gift from Uncle Mark while Grace, Amber and Rinoa watch.

Gabe does some awesome artwork with the paints!

Piper, Amber and Reilin have fun playing in the bubbles.

Dog Mountian

2007-05-15T12:53:00.000-07:00

Dog Mountian Washington. I don't know why its called Dog Mountian. There are a lot of dogs on the trail. You work like a dog going up and down the trail! Whatever the reason, Piper, mama and dada took the Monday after Mother's Day to take on the 7.5 mile vertical hike for the spoils of victory upon completion, which of course the view!!!!

Mama says it should be renamed mule mountian, because mama felt like a pack mule the whole trip. Poor mama and dada. Piper got the sweet treat of riding in the hiking pack that sat uptop mama's back. Pretty much the whole way up and down. Piper did take a few opportunities to run up some of the steep hills and had more fun sliding down them on the way back.

Once we *finally* made it to the top, we enjoyed every minute as we made ourselves a nice picnic amoung the flowers and looked out around us, catching glimses of Mt. Hood and Mt. St.Helens and the Columbia river which surrounded us below.

Piper loved walking in the flowers and watching all the butterflies.

We made it home in one piece, but mama and dada are sore and tired. Piper was of course ready for more play. "why you all so tired? I am so ready to play, i got tons of energy!!!!"

Sprinkler weather

2007-05-08T15:26:00.000-07:00

Piper was introduced to the fine art of jumping in the sprinklers this past Monday when it was a nice 79 degrees in stumptown.

She really loved hopping around in the cold water and dodging the oncoming sprinkler dousing while wearing her new minnie mouse swimsuit.

We are looking forward to more fun hot days this summer filled with sprinkler fun.

Best Friends

2007-04-17T14:30:00.000-07:00

Piper visits her best friend Grace for a day of fun play. Running, jumping, dancing, peek-a-poo! The girls talked and laughed and were silly the whole morning. It is so much fun to watch these two grow up together. Grace has a baby brother on the way-any day now and we know she will make a fantastic big sister. I am sure Piper will enjoy visits to help Jen with the new baby and to keep Grace company during the transition.

Here the girls pose for the camera with hugs and giggles!

it's house party time!!!

2007-04-15T14:05:00.000-07:00

Today was a special day for Piper. We were lucky enough to get into the sold out DAN ZANES and FRIENDS show at the Aladdin Theatre. Piper wasn't quite sure what to make out of the long line to get into the door that spanned the entire block and around the corner until we saw Dan Zanes and Friends strumming their mandolins and make their way inside. Once inside we quickly made our way to the front and got ready for some fun dancing. Piper watched the first part of the show on top of dada and mama shoulders, but once 'Catch that train' started she jumped down and started to boogie down.

Piper and Mama in front of the Aladdin marque in line to get in.

Dan Zanes and Friends come walkin up the sidewalk-mandolins in hand singing and smiling on the way inside the venue. How perfect it was that we were finally near the door when he walked up. yipee

The band having fun!

We stayed afterwards to get a poster signed by Dan and to get a quick picture with him. Piper was pretty tuckered out at this point, so she didn't cheese up for the picture. But we thanked him for a good time-and can't wait for when he returns to Portland.

woohoo. house party time!

Piper meets Dan Zanes. She is a little tired to be as excited as mama was though.

(www.danzanes.com)

Bunny Day

2007-04-10T14:42:00.000-07:00

Piper gets a dose of holiday this weekend by searching for eggs we painted on Saturday and finding a basket full of fun toys to play with. No sugar for this monkey...or bunny rather. While all the other kids are getting hopped up on chocolate eggs, Piper makes out like a bandit with safari animal view master disks, bubbles and some nail polish and lip gloss.

Piper searchs for her basket the spring bunny left her this weekend. Complete with Bunny ears!!she finds her basket of toys left by peter cottontail.

We make best of the 20 minutes of sun on Sunday and searched for eggs bright and early.

Nana visits

2007-04-10T14:29:00.000-07:00

Nana Julie flies in from Arizona to visit with Piper and take massage classes with mama. Piper enjoys a few days with Nana alone, playing in the backyard and playing with her safari animals. She really had fun showing off her dancing skills all week and watching Peter Pan. Her new favorite.

Piper and Nana play with our neighbors orange cat.

piper shows off her new Minnie Mouse swimsuit that nana got for her. She can't wait to get into the pool this summer and have fun.

Spring time

2007-03-20T14:55:00.000-07:00

Grandma and Grandpa Zurbano stayed for a week and Piper was so excited. They had lots of fun going to OMSI, the mall, playing outside. And Piper now calls them Trama and Trampa. It's super cute.

And of course Spring is upon us, the equinox is almost here and Piper enjoys the weekend helping mama, daddy and trampa to weed the garden and do some yard work and play amoungst the daffodils.

Daffy-down-dilly is new come to town,
With a petticoat green, and a bright yellow gown,
And her white blossoms are peeping around.
-English rhyme
Did the flower tickle your nose?

having fun

2007-03-12T09:25:00.000-07:00

Piper has been having lots of fun these days. Daddy got a new video game and Piper loves to play the guitar along side daddy and rock out.

Daddy and Piper also made way over to the Children's Museum for a day of fun a few weeks ago. Piper had fun with the new dentist exhibit and office.

Piper is getting her groove on totally rocking out with daddy. They are playing Guitar Hero 2.
Piper does some photo work for a friends movie. She isn't looking very excited right now however.
Mama fell in love with this Peter Pan kids table that Jen and Grace had. We were lucky enough to find one on Craigslist. This is of course THE spot for a spot of tea. Here Piper pours some tea for Marty the cow, kitty and Charlie the dog.
Piper and daddy went to the Children's Museum a few weeks ago. Piper had fun cleaning the crocodiles teeth. She was sure to tell him to brush good and floss. Good girl!

Here Piper takes some important calls.

BABY LOVES DISCO

2007-02-19T08:40:00.000-08:00

Mama and Papa and Piper headed down to the Crystal Ballroom for "Baby Loves Disco", an event that is sweeping the nation. An afternoon of disco music spun by the 94.7 DJ's that do a weekly kids show on the radio called"Greasy Kids Stuff". There were bubble machines and tents and games, shakers and lots of organic food. Beer flowed for the parents as well.

We were all overwhelmed. There were so many kids and parents. Piper had a blast dancing and playing and going up and down all the stairs and of course getting her picture taken-such the ham.

We even got interviewed by OPB about the fun event. while a bit on the pricey side, it was well worth it. This will be a monthly event that we will be sure to go to again.

bubbles and dancing...who could ask for more.
Mama and Piper get down to some serious disco dancing
Papa shows Piper some of his dance floor moves
Mama and Piper get interviewed by OPB
A little face paint just for fun
Piper makes some new friends while being silly.

new picture

2007-02-05T13:58:00.000-08:00

Piper was having fun posing for the camera to update her extrasonly portfolio. This one was too cute to pass up for posting and boosting!

My silly girl-getting bigger and smarter by the hour.

Piper has McKenna over to play

2007-02-05T13:44:00.000-08:00

Piper got quite the treat last Thursday when her friend McKenna came over to play for the day. McKenna and Piper are almost 1.5 years apart, but are the same height and shoe size. Piper is a small girl for her age.
They had so much fun together and Piper was quite the mother hen looking after McKenna and sharing her toys.

Piper and McKenna enjoy the day by reading a few good books!
Piper has fun teaching McKenna how to drum on mama's drum

Piper and McKenna play with Dora the Explorer sit and spin and share a kodak moment.

"and you put the money in the pig right here! good job"

Time for McKenna to go home. Hugs and kisses goodbye until next time.

Another Snow Day-Family style

2007-01-18T08:59:00.000-08:00

We got hit again with a ton of snow this week. Piper was so jazzed to see 5 inches come falling down and stick to the ground. This meant fun time! Since it snowed so much and the roads were horrible, we opted to stay home for 2 days and enjoy the white wet wonderland. We even got daddy to stay home on Wednesday so we could all play outside.

Piper gets a mouthful of yummy snow on a cold winter day. yummmmA little snow angel- Piper is having fun in the snow!

We don't know of any hills in the area, but since our backyard is big, we got out the sled and mama and papa got some good exercise pulling Piper all over the yard. She thought it was a bunch of fun...mama thought she needed to get into better shape!!!

And of course, the making of a new and bigger snowman was in the mind of papa! We will make him bigger and stronger....

...and give him a mohawk? sure why not! and a feather boa to match. We know how to style out mr..or ms. snow..person.

Piper gives our happy snowperson a quick kiss! how sweeeeeet

Portland Children's Museum

2007-01-14T21:45:00.000-08:00

One of the big things I really love about Portland is the amount of family friendly, child oreiented and even animal oriented places to go eat, events, you name it. My favourite alternate radio stations even has a program called 'greasy kid's stuff', which is all kinds of silly, kid oriented songs by all kinds of bands, every saturday morning. We steer our kids in different directions here in Portland. We veer away from the cookie cutter TV generation. We go outside to play, listen to the radio, explore!

We have memberships to OMSI and the Zoo, but had yet to be to the Children's Museum-and were we missing out. Needless to say, we bought a year pass when we left. IT was that good. We missed the 'Baby Loves Disco' at the crystal ballroom- but we will head over next month for that one.

Piper and Mama met Mama's friend Andrea from their Intel days. She brought her Newphew Garrett to the museum and we had so much fun. The kids were worn out completely. After 3 hours of play ending with the Marachi band playing in the children's theatre that Piper was absolutly glued to.

This water play area is three times as big as the one at OMSI, which makes Piper very happy indeed.
Here Piper and new friend Garrett play around in part of the playhouse

What a Look!!!! Little miss Piper is taking a good look at herself before transforming herself with the face paints.

Arrr matey! Watch out for the notorious green beard!

Piper and Garrett get into a little impromto jam session with some other kids at the CM.
Andrea and Garrett show Piper how to make music on the xylophone. pretty music

Snow Day in Portland

2007-01-11T13:17:00.000-08:00

Piper and mama were SO excited to see big phat flakes of snow falling down when they woke up this morning. Piper got all bundled up and we headed outside for a bit of playing in the wet white snow. Mama showed Piper how to build a snowman and Piper had fun throwing snowballs at mama (don't know where she learned that one!) By Noon the sun was out, not a cloud in the sky and snow is almost all gone. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

It's sticking to my mittens!!!Check out my snowman!!!!

bed time routines

2007-01-05T09:01:00.000-08:00

As many of you know, since we moved 6 months ago, Piper has refused to sleep in her room in her bed and has made the couch her resting place for naps and bedtime. After trying and failing many times to revert her back into her room for rest, we gave up for a while. After the holiday craziness, we tried again.
We are happy to report that we have had a full week of nap and bedtime sleeping in her own bed again. This is huge! Now we can hang out in the living room and not worry about waking her up at night.
so proud of my girl!

Yuletide 2006

2006-12-30T22:50:00.000-08:00

The family flew down to Vegas and then drove to Lake Havasu City to spend the holiday with Nana and Grandpa Larry and Great Grandma Harriet. Piper enjoyed the views of Lake Havasu from the pool and back door. The tree is adorned with none other than a big parrot. Since the house is decorated with an awesome jungle motive, Piper is never short of things to play with.

Piper and Nana share kisses

Piper and Grandpa Larry share some stories and laughs for breakfast.

Piper doing her "yeehaw" on Nana's elephant in the living room.

Fun in the cold desert.

2006-12-30T22:49:00.000-08:00

We were so excited to spend the warm days by the pool and relaxing...but it was so windy and cold. Nana turned on the hot tub and got it just right so it wasn't too hot for Piper. We picked the perfect day to get cozy in the tub while the sunset lit the sky on fire around us.

Piper and mama get warm while chillin' with the beautiful Arizona sunset.
Here with Great Grandma Harriet

The Four Generations

Oh what fun...

2006-12-30T22:47:00.000-08:00

Piper gets her first stocking this year when she woke up on Dec. 25th. With her new Dora jammies on she was eager to discover all the neat things wrapped up inside and share her findings with the family.

Piper showing off her new glasses.

A new nemo phone! Sweeeet.

Even papa got a little goody stocking. Is that chocolate frank?

And more goodies for all!

2006-12-30T22:46:00.000-08:00

Piper gets excited to see her new Dora blanket.

WOW!!!!
mama gets some new landscaping books from papa! piper falls in love with her new alpaca bear from Great Grandma Harriet! His name is BoBo. We have no idea where she came up with that, but it is really cute!

Nana gets a parrot pillow that Brandy made for her jungle themed house.
Piper gets comfy in her new Dora Chair. That was carry on luggage in the plane. She loves it.
Our house is very Dora filled these days.
Always happy to get a new book. This one has music and sounds. Even better!!!

Pipers new friends

2006-12-29T21:08:00.000-08:00

Piper meets some new friends while in Havasu. Amanda and Racheal stop by after the holiday to meet us. Christine is a friend of Nana and her girls had fun playing with Piper and her new bubbles.

Franks get away

2006-12-29T21:02:00.000-08:00

Frank takes a day away from the ladies after the holiday and drives to Joshua Tree. He met up with our good friends Paul and Michelle for a day of climbing on the big granite domes. Here are a few good shots!

Early Holiday

2006-12-20T10:03:00.000-08:00

Piper gets a double dose of holiday cheer this year. Tuesday we took the opportunity to celebrate the Yule with Piper's Grandparents and Uncle Mark before they go to the Phillipines for 3 weeks. Piper was so excited this year. We put up a yule tree and had lots of gifts under the tree (95% for piper!) We caught her several times trying to sneak a peak at the gifts by pulling a little wrapping paper off here and there. But when we all sat down to open up the gifts, Piper was not shy at all. For the first time, Piper realized what all that wrapping paper was about and had a blast ripping it off the gifts. She was so excited with many WOW'S and Yeah's!! She added to her toy chest a new keyboard with microphone, safari animal figurines, a view finder, The little mermaid dvd, stickers, drawing mats with songs and markers, her new dora sofa sleeper (she was VERY excited about that one), clothes and books. Of course, she isn't done yet. We head down to Arizona to celebrate the holiday also with Piper's Nana, Grandpa Larry, Great Grandma Harry, Uncle Mike and maybe even Grandpa Walt. So more fun unwrapping and joys of laughter and WoW's are to be had. Here are some pictures of her fun night.

Piper gets silly after helping to decorate the Yule Log for this years solstice and Yule celebrations. Piper will help mama celebrate the rebirth of the Sun King with a little ceremony and lighting of the Yule log on Thursday-Winter Solstice.Piper being cute as ever-and being my little package of joy all dressed up in bows.
Piper is overjoyed at the sight of all the gifts. Oh, about 95% of those are hers.

Mama was counting on Piper enjoying her view master with 3D Dora images....

And we would say that Yes! she loves it. Sitting on her new Dora sofa, she looked at the viewmaster for a good long time, and woke up the next morning looking at it again. Good score on that one Mama!!!

ZOO LIGHTS

2006-12-18T21:41:00.001-08:00

So here we go! We braved the freezing cold and fog, the freeways to get to the zoo this year for zoo lights! Piper loves the lights. Next year we will take the train!

Frank has magical powers and has lasers coming from his hands! Oh and here he is hanging out with Piper and Rudolph at the zoo. Just chillin' brrr
Score! We got some shots with Rudolph!

Papa and Piper hanging out in the land of Oz. Watch out! Piper, the flying monkeys want to steal your hat!!!!

Mama and Piper in front of the All Star Zoo Band! That Giraffe is off the hook!

We had fun and saw lots of animals. Piper really liked the monkeys and the giraffe! She was facinated by the train too. Next year we will make time to do it for sure.

Having fun!

2006-12-14T12:43:00.000-08:00

Piper has been busy playing non -stop these days. Running around and roaring like lion or getting on all fours as she meows and paws at the ground like a kitty. Another favorite is to be spun around in circles until both us get dizzy or sitting on mama and papa's back and "yeeehaw"ing like a little cowgirl.
Here are a few pictures of some fun lately.

Piper "yeehaws" on the giraffe while wearing a bonnet that Brandy wore when she was a litte girl in the fourth of july parade in prescott, arizona.

Piper enjoys playing with her fairie wings she got from her great auntie ginger in california.

Piper playing with Al's boy Rilyn last week when they stopped over to hang out for a while. We really enjoyed seeing how big the little guy has gotten-and what a cutie!!!!!

A lil family portrait.

Just too cute

2006-11-29T15:39:00.000-08:00

I have no reason other than this picture is so damn cute i couldn't help post it. Piper braves the chilly outdoors to go to Tumble class this past tuesday. The bummer is that later that night she got really sick in her tummy and we have been home cuddled together on the couch keeping the fire stoked and the freezing air out all day.

gobble gobble

2006-11-25T22:15:00.000-08:00

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It was a fun day to be off work, hanging out with the family. Uncle Mark came over with a bird, stuffing, gravy and berries. yumm. Mama made the taters, green beans...and a fresh from scratch apple pie. HMMMMM so good. Piper had fun playing with Uncle and decorating the Yule tree. Piper also enjoyed making turkey cards for the grandparents.

Boss and Piper

2006-11-13T08:42:00.000-08:00

Jamie brought over her new puppy Boss last night-a 6 month old Bermese Mt. dog. Piper introduced Boss to her stuffed dog Charlie and had fun petting Boss' fluffly puppy fur. Boss was such a good boy chillin' out while we had some dinner and conversation. Piper and Boss will see more of each other as time goes on-and i am sure a little pony ride atop Boss will happen eventually.
Good times!

Tumble Time

2006-11-07T14:09:00.000-08:00

Tuesdays are special days because Piper gets to go to Romp and Roll tumble class. Not a much of a class really, just an opportunity for toddlers to play on mats, balance beams, bars and trampolines. Piper could spend more than the 1/2 hour allowed too, but other classes fill day so we make do with the time we have. Piper has so much fun jumping and running and tumbling down the mats and playing with the other kids too.

the real halloweenie

2006-11-01T11:28:00.000-08:00

Piper got to flaunt her cute witchy costume at the mall on Halloween. Mama and Papa flew in from a small vacation called VEGOOSE, still a little hungover and tired, but happy to see their little monkey and take her to her first trick or treating outing.

Opting for the mall instead of the freezing cold outside, we all headed to Clackamas town center where Piper figured out quickly what all the other kids were doing in costumes. Piper had fun walking around and checking out the other costumes and getting candy!

Good ol' sneaky mama brought her own bag of goodie composed of stickers, bubbles, beads, raisans and pretzels. Once in the car, mama switched out the candy for the sticker lot and Piper never knew she got dissed on the tootsie rolls and lolipops in exchange for rasins. Mama is sneaky like that.
whahhahahahahahahahahahahaha

I put a spell on you

2006-10-23T09:23:00.000-07:00

Piper poses for the camera in her Samhain outfit for this year. We traded in the cute fuzzy bear stuff for a nice witchy outfit. She looks great and ready to ride to the moon.

Autumn is in the Air

2006-10-23T08:38:00.000-07:00

ah, the fall leaves, the crispy cool days. Autumn is here in full swing in Portland. Piper took advantage of a sunny day and learned about playing in the leaves. Mama gathered up leaves from around the yard and put them in a pile. We had fun rolling around in the leaves, tossing them in the air and making a mess!

pumpkin carving time

2006-10-23T08:32:00.000-07:00

Piper was very excited to help carve out the pumpkins this year. The excitement was all for the messy part though. These days, the messier the better for this pint size! Handfuls of slimey pumpkin guts and seeds sure were fun to pull out of the pumpkin and slop onto the plate (and sidewalk, and mama's legs, and papa's pants....)

The finished product!

2006-10-23T08:28:00.000-07:00

Piper shows off her pumpkins-even though she is shying away from the camera.
Dadda did a great job carving out Piper's favorite character, DORA THE EXPLORER. While mama went for the more traditional route with a scary pumpkin face.

The Pumpkin Patch

2006-10-13T09:11:00.000-07:00

On Thursday we ventured to the Pumpkin patch in search of the perfect pumpkin. The great pumpkin charlie brown!
It was a venture of many firsts for Piper. Her first Hay ride and first visit to a pumpkin patch. She had a blast on the hayride and even more fun romping through the patch to find her perfect pumpkin. We each got one and Piper picked a nice white pumpkin-not to small-not to big- but just right. We didn't end up doing the corn maize (daddy wasn't into it) but perhaps next year we will give that one a go. We picked up many gourds and fresh corn to take home and packed the car up with all the goodies and went home. Piper loved her experience.
Can't wait to do it again next year.

Pumpkin Patch 2

2006-10-13T09:01:00.000-07:00

A few more photos

Pumpkin Patch 3

2006-10-13T08:56:00.000-07:00

Here are some more pictures from our great orange adventure

New Playhouse!

2006-10-06T08:38:00.000-07:00

Piper was excited to come home to a new playhouse in the yard. Complete with sink and stove, she quickly got to work making some food for Charlie (her stuffed dog) and singing him lullabys.

Of course Piper wouldn't be Piper if she didn't stray from the norm. Here she demonstrates the alternative way to get into the playhouse. Who needs doors when a window is much more fun to climb through. Yes, I realize she is practicing for her teenage years early of course. Mental note-locks on screens and alarm on windows when she reaches....13!

Piper can't wait to have her friends over for some playhouse fun.

happy birthday gracie bug!

2006-09-05T09:32:00.000-07:00

Piper enjoyed helping Grace celebrate her big birthday number two this weekend. Grace had a nice party complete with pinata, yummy treats and party hats! The girls looked so cute in their matching outfits (that Jen's mom made for both of them!!!-how sweet is that!!) we are so happy to have watched the girls grow up together and look forward to many more birthday parties to come.

Northwest String Summit 2006

2006-08-28T09:37:00.000-07:00

This weekend was the 5th annual Northwest String Summit at Horning's Hideout. A weekend of class act blue grass with many legends and of course Yonder Mountian headlining the event all three days of music. Frank and I headed out early on Thursday to catch a good campsite at family camp for us and Jen and Josh and Grace. Frank found some prime estate on a hill in the trees so we had shade all weekend (which was key in 90 degrees). Jen and Josh arrived Friday afternoon and Grace and Piper had a super fun time playing together everyday. We all had some sleep issues with the girls, but aside from that-it was a steller time! The music was super jammin and the girls LOVED to dance and play. Attempts at the hoola hoops were made-in a few years the girls will be pros at the hoola. Friday night left us all pooped so we crashed early dispite the rocking music echoing across the valley. we actually had such a prime spot we didn't need to go into the venue because we could hear the music crystal clear from our campsite. Josh went out alone friday night to catch some YMSB. Saturday night was the same, everyone crashed after first set, but Brandy headed out for the full second set Saturday night-and what a nite! A naked guy jumped on stage as they were beginning a jam and tried to jump on the mandolin players. he was chased around the stage and proceeded to jump into the crowd. The band made jokes about it all night and it was pretty funny.

So the kids and families had a great time. There were tons of kids and Piper and Grace made friends with a lot of the kids around us. It is fun to be around other parents who like the same music and for the most part share the same ideas about food and fun. So its not big deal if the kids share each others snacks or sit in each others chairs. we are all a big family at family camp. most of us anyway. we were unfortunate in the fact taht we had that ONE BAD MAMA behind us at camp that proceeded to get tanked each night and yell and carry on about her cocktails and getting F-ed up as loud as she could to her friends. She woke up the girls a few times and we could only feel sorry for her kids. I guess there is one bad egg in every bunch.

it was a hot, dusty weekend, but so full of great music. Really, the people around us were so cool and even if they weren't parents, they reeled in the delight of watching the kids dance and play and have so much fun. We took several peacock trips-going up to the lake to find the peacocks that own the land. No, really. Horning's, amoungst other things, is a peacock farm and there are tons of peacocks running around the property. Don't be suprised to see one pecking around your camp or crossing your path as you zig zag through the camp ground. The girls loved to watch them...and chase them a few times too. The peacocks are used to it though, so they don't complain too much. they just run away behind Bob Horning's house if they get sick of it. hahahaha.

well, to a wonderful weekend. we are lucky to get one show in at HH this year. hopefully Bob's neighbors will lighten up and we can get some more shows in next year!!!
to good friends and good times!!!!!....oh and naked guys. yeeeeeeehaaaaaaawwww

Belly Paint

2006-08-16T12:12:00.000-07:00

After a super fun morning playing with all her friends at Jen's house with the mama group, Piper took on some finger painting. Which soon led to belly painting. The colour here is pretty darn good i think. worthy of a picture.

A fun weekend

2006-08-14T10:06:00.000-07:00

Piper and mama went to a good friends house up in Washington this weekend. Aaron, his wife Teri and their beautiful daughters Caillean and Amber had us stay the night and showed us a wonderful time. The girls played in the river several times, we went for a hike to the top of a mountian overlooking the valley with views of the river and what we decided was Mt. Rainer in the distance. The girls had fun picking wild Blackberries and Huckleberries, thier hands and face covered with berries.
Piper and I had so much fun playing with the girls we came home exhausted!!!!
Aaron and I had great spiritual conversations that led well into the moon of Sunday morning admist a crackeling fire in their back yard. We can't wait to go up again to do some ritual celebrations and let the kids play again. It is so great to have good friends!!!!

Sun Valley ID

2006-08-08T15:25:00.000-07:00

We headed out to Sun Valley for a wedding this past weekend. Piper was a gem in the airplane and the overall travel experience this time around was excellent. Sun Valley is amazing and beautiful. I would move there in a heartbeat if i could afford it, but frank is a tree hater and said no way. (just kidding frankypie) Trees..standing around like STUPID JERKS!
anyway, the wedding was very nice and it was a nice time. Frank and i got to check out The Dirty Dozen Brass Band while we were there. We love the DDBB and to see them in a small little bar was cool. To hang out with the band...that was even cooler. Everyone was wasted so i am sure they wouldn't remember...but i get them all to sign my poster. so i have proof.

well, piper loved the trees and fresh mountian air. we will be back for sure.

The visit

2006-08-01T11:06:00.000-07:00

The family had so much fun having Alicia and Amber and Jason over to the homestead for a few days. Piper and Amber enjoyed playing, dancing, drawing and of course...eating ICE. We can't wait for them to come back to visit or hopefully move back so we can enjoy their company ALL the time. Amber has become a beautiful young lady turning 7 in a week. Last time I saw her, she was 4. It was good to hang out and watch the kids have a good time.

Kung Fu Fighting

2006-07-31T09:38:00.000-07:00

Daddy and Piper match wits and kung fu stances while frolicking in the bubbles. Actually, they were really battling the bubbles, but this picture cracks me up. Piper looks like she is ready to attack while frank is in mid air kicking the bubbles. What fun on a Sunday morning in the backyard.

Brew Fest 2006

2006-07-31T09:26:00.000-07:00

Well, another year, another Brew Fest. Frank and I went on separte days so I hooked up with my friend Jen and a fellow dragon boater Connie to suck down some suds. This was the first time I did an evening run at the fest. Usually going durning the day when the crowds aren't so big, lines are not so long and the taps are flowing heavy with every beer. This year due to scheduling, i had to go Saturday night and the lines were huge, almost all the beers were gone and it was so crowded you lost half your beer trying to get out of the crowd.
Oh well, it was still fun. I will never miss a beer fest.

oregon country fair

2006-07-25T15:06:00.000-07:00

Piper had so much fun at the OCF this year. She got to sport a fancy new dress that was perfect for the hot day and danced and danced. We got to see Julia and spend a little time before she moves to Taos in a few weeks. More festivals to come. NW Reggae Fest, NW String Summit and many more i am sure. This kid is going to be a festival flyer!

sweet little poser

2006-07-25T14:59:00.000-07:00

Piper loves the camera and here she gives us a sporty new pose as she shows off the latest in Summer attire. complete with hat, braclets and necklaces, this flashy young lady is the belle of the ball.

Oregon Zoo

2006-07-25T14:56:00.000-07:00

Piper enjoyed going to the zoo for the first time last week (7/19/06). She really loved to watch the monkeys, storks and fish. We decided to get a year pass so we can go back and see the butterfly exhibit.

Alicia and Piper

2006-07-25T14:24:00.000-07:00

Alicia came to visit and we had a great time. Piper enjoyed meeting Mama's friend and here they share a little cantelope and smiles

ice ice baby

2006-07-25T13:30:00.000-07:00

My name is Piper.
I love Ice. Give me ice morning, noon and night.
I also love frozen peas and corn out of the bag.
Here I am enjoying a spot of shaved ice at the Oregon Country Fair waiting for Steve Kimock to come out on stage and sing to me.

missin the sistah

2006-07-25T11:50:00.000-07:00

so long ago in a world far far away, two friends became strangers.
suddenly in a blink of an eye and a dash of beautiful flowers, the strangers became friends once again.
reunited, they got dusty and stinky at the NW REGGAE Fest.
what fun and joy.