I had a great plan to do a holiday 2010 recap, starting with Thanksgiving, going into Christmas, etc. But I can't access the xmas pictures my sister sent me so I'm letting go of that and moving on. 2011 is the year of forward progress!
So, in the spirit of always forward, never back - here is a smattering of what we've been up to recently, in no particular order at all.
Skiing! Milo is doing the Willamette Alpine Racing Program (WARP) every Saturday at Willamette Pass. So we've had a great excuse to head up the hill once a week.
Last weekend I took four boys up to the mountain, leaving Joel and Lucy at home. Here's Liam and his best friend Elijah on the chairlift.
(I will admit, I was feeling a little smug, like supermom, until we lost Milo. After the WARP day was over the four boys wanted to do a few runs on their own. "Stick together" was my only rule. Well, three of them listened, but Milo ended up going off on his own. After realizing that the others hadn't waited for him at the bottom, he happily did a few more runs by himself before he finally showed up at the lodge wondering why I was making such a fuss...)
Rohanna is working on her snowboarding skills this winter.
Kavi spent a whole day after christmas teaching Liam how to snowboard. Kavi's a snowboard instructor and coach at Mt. Hood, so Liam got first class instruction. He was proclaimed a natural, but complains about it being slower than skiing....
Even Lucy has hit the (bunny) slopes. She liked it, but prefers walking on the long tables in the lodge, if you want the truth.
We've also been hanging out a lot with these sweet girls. Our dear friend Melissa from college recently moved to Eugene with her three girls. The two older ones are going to Camas Ridge, the boys' school. Here are Aya and Ena celebrating the first day of school with the boys at Humble Bagel.
And here are Lucy and Lulu (yes, I know - Lucile and Lucia - but what did you expect from two friends both named Melissa?).
"Oh, hey Snow White, it's me, Darth Vader."
Liam has been working on lots of projects at school. This was a poster presentation and paper on the Navajo Code Talkers from WWII.
And this was a finger puppet of Sean White for a biography project.
And finally, we've been hanging out a lot with Gramma. She fell and broke her shoulder right before the holidays, so we have been helping her convalesce at home. Here we are a few days before her fall at a local production of Bing Crosby's White Christmas.
Groundhog Day is over and it's almost Valentine's Day now. Maybe I'll manage to post the christmas pictures before Easter?
Lucy was a champ skiing with Jess.
(We love the Blaines.)
Even in the rain, the wildflowers all over the place are so lovely. Trilliums always make me think of my mom - these delicate flowers grow all over the mountainside where I grew up and my mom loved them.
We took the kids hiking to Mt. Pisgah recently - these girls valiantly stomped through the mud and took many breaks for z-bars.
Lucy got well hydrated wearing the camelback.
And Melissa and I were happy to let the kids get all their ya yas out - outside of our livingrooms.
Lucy and Lulu love the park (and each other), rain or shine.
We'll get there. Warm sunny days are just around the corner.... Patience. 
