Hanging out

Sometimes we like to just hang out with dad.  Circuit bouldering gym today.

Thanksgiving 2016

It's becoming a turkey day tradition for us to go to Mt Hood, walk around Trillium Lake then enjoy dinner and play time at the Mazama Lodge.  We didn't have a frozen lake or even much snow this year but we still had fun.  We found some geocaches, a beaver dam, a ski lift, a deer skeleton and built some snowmen.  And ate a lot, too.

Geocaching - how fun

Today we took dad's phone (and we took dad too) and we went on our first geocaching adventure.

Wow that was really fun and we found five caches all walking from our home!  One in Willamette Park and 4 more in Riverview Cemetery.

We now have ideas on where to hide our own geocaches.

Koh back to soccer, indoors now

Koh - My shoulder is back to full strength so I played today with the Dragons, and scored 3 times, including with my left foot once!

Love Letter from Dad #14

Abe & Koh - Last night we watched on TV the historic presidential election of 2016.  I am so impressed with your interest in this civic matter, it seems more interested than I've ever been.  We sat together for 5 hours watching red and blue colors appear on the USA state map.  You hoped, like me, that Donald Trump wouldn't be elected.  We watched in disbelief as more red states came on and that number kept rising toward 270.  Finally you fell asleep on my lap and my arms before you knew the result.  Koh, you slept on the sofa all night. Today you woke to learn who would be our next president.  Koh, your reaction was to smack your forehead, no words.  Abe, yours was to say "Bad!"  I just love you guys.

Halloween 2016

Koh: We were really scary for Halloween this year. Abe's a ninja and I'm a zombie. Brains, brains, brains....

Cairn building at our beach

We love rocks... throwing 'em, collecting 'em, climbing up 'em, and building stuff with 'em too.  This weekend we built almost 20 cairns on our favorite backyard rocky beach.

Climbing School field session #2 - Rapelling

Abe - Here we went again back to Horsethief Butte SP and this time we dangled on our rope learning to "self-belay" on rappel.  Koh didn't come this weekend 'cause of his broken bone from last weekend.   Here's our class photo journal

Oregon Dunes and Accidental Big Air

Koh: I was going a bit fast and got some accidental BIG AIR on my first quad trip, so our annual September beach trip ended in the hospital.   Oops.  Here's our trip photo journal.

Climbing School - our first field session

They don't waste any time at Mazama's so here we are climbing and belaying each other at Horsethief Butte State Park, WA.  It was big fun and we camped with the other families, too.  Here's our class photo album.  

Let's go climb trees with our prussiks, dad

Finally, A Broken Bone

It is hard to believe that it took nine years before one of the boys broke a bone considering all their adventures and escapades. Abe has a small fracture on his foot from doing a back flip and landing on a rock.

See the Abe Can Levitate post for how it happened. 

Koh's Munra Point training hike

We were sad today Abe couldn't go but we were happy Forest and his dad went on this 3.5 hour hard hike and we made the summit and were the only kids there today!

Allowance earned today!

Abe can levitate