2020…. Check!

Welcoming 2021 with images from our adventures last year, including exciting venues such as: our house in Portland, San Diego beaches, our offices in Portland, PacNW beaches, more pictures in our home, more pictures in forests, more pictures in our home, a couple pictures from Sun River, more pictures from our home, and overall the…

Summer Fun 2018

As Fall comes closer to Winter, we look back at the last several months and say “I wish it were still warm” 😀 I can say that Nori could be coaxed into saying many unexpected words at this point. Here’s a collection of all the warm fun times had during the Summer of 2018: That…

Noriella’s Day Off

One Summer day, toward the end of her second year, Ferris Noriella gives in to an overwhelming urge to cut school escape Portland-life and head for downtown Chicago with her mom and dad (Dill and Nicholas) and her best friend (Monkey), to see the sights, experience a day of freedom and show that with a…

Sandy Echo?… Echo?… Echo?

The early part of our trip included exploring La Jolla and South Park areas. You walked along the beach and experienced the waves, when we got to our hotel, you had a great time in the pool. You and mom particularly enjoyed zooming you along the surface like you were a little jet-ski. We enjoyed…

Eclipsical Whimsy

You really didn’t get to see the eclipse, but you did experience the hype… all week long. These are the photos of your eclipse moments, one day before your birthday. Funny thing is that after the eclipse, you just decided that you knew how to walk without holding on to things. So that was fun…

Sam and Tony’s Ohs… aka: San Antonio

Somewhere in the process of sitting in those big noisy teleportation tubes Daddy and I ventured to a place called “Sam and Tony’s Ohs”: I’d say we had a great day trip. This was the longest amount of time you spent away from mom in your first year, you handled it pretty well. We first…

Dallas Conferencing

Just after visiting San Antonio, Dad and I found ourselves looking for mom in a spacious town called Dallas: Nori, You’ve now traveled to the furthest point of your first year, driven your longest distance over two days, and had a mild regression of sleep that may have kept mom and dad up most of…

First Nature Hike!

  We’re on an adventure! Pretty pictures! Apparently this is some wordy place. Looks like Dad wants to go up there. It’s both windy and warm, I like the warm parts! Mom said to touch this… it feels weird. I could get the hang of this looking at strange setting. I liked this part pretty…

2016 Holiday Party!

Many Great friends came to celebrate the beginning of winter Everyone loved spending time with you, Kris almost snuck away with you 🙂 Linda enjoyed feeding you a meal You got to meet a slightly older girl named Lilly and her sweet parents You met a boy 2 days younger than you named Lucas, wearing…