ACTION! at our new Maaco location!

It's TRUE! There's an Excavator scraping for the foundation on our future Maaco site!!! They got the Permits from Clackamas County this week, and now the BUILD can start!!!!

Wow! We got to put up our "Coming Soon" sign!

Woooohooooo! Progress!

It's so exciting to share every detail with everyone!! Thank you ALL for your enthusiasm and support! What a LONG journey!

Birthday Party!

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Daddy....

We had lotsa winners for the "decorate the cupcake" event, of course.

Happy Halloween! (Armstrong flavored)

Aidan and Shad got into carving their own pumpkins this year, scooping out goopy seeds and everything! Aidan had hoped to save ALL the seeds, but he was happy with a handfull after I assured him we could plant them and grow a whole pumpkin field all by ourselves with them. (In theory, I mean. I realize pumpkins are durable choice for veggie gardens and all that, but follow-thru should never be assumed.)

Our Four Costumed partyers!

Shad has decided he's Spiderman forever - I think this is the 3rd year, and quite frankly, it fits him! Camten decided Aidan's cool cape was so awesome - we had two batmans! :) And they can run really fast with those capes, too! Those two have been wearing their costumes almost daily for two weeks!! Trinity had to dress in her Princess outfit every time she saw it, so we either hid it from her, or didn't give her any chocolate, caramel, yogurt, juice, bananas, crackers, rice, lollipops, cereal, or pudding while she was in it.

Trick-or-Treating has always been memorable for us... and not just because of the sugar-rush! Shad, Aidan, friend Cody and Trinity went door to door as enthusiastically has they could until the neighborhood ran out of candy, and the kids couldn't fit one more in their buckets. Camten reserved his energy, discovering he had to talk to people, which he's not sure he's ready to do, yet. He had his Daddy, though, so he was happy to walk along.

Hard at Work!

Progress on the Milwaukie Property... we got the front porch started and the fence along the far side and some initial landscaping. Doesn't it look great? The outside is nearly ready for paint! And, actually, the inside, too! It's almost a REAL HOUSE! (very exciting)

The motor got installed in the Orange Shortbox... yea, it's our buddy's truck, but with all the steel braided lines and new headers... this motor is a Completed Work of Art! :-) (That's girl-talk for whatever it is the guys were talking about that I didn't 'get'.)

Shad has tons of homework... that counts as "work" around here! Good job, Shad!!