Piper's visit with Emma and Boss

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!!!!!

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

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

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

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

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

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.