A quick photo spread of all the visitors we’ve been having lately. Cousin Jeff, Larry, Earl, and Hans have been here too but somehow managed to stay out of our lenses. We even had a surprise visit from Jerry and Joni, our friends on Lotus who you may remember from the infamous bar crossing at Bahia del Sol.

Grandma Peggy!

Grandma Cheryl!

Great Aunt Cindy!

When Uncle Sage, Auntie Elise, and Cousin Riley came through Riley wanted to see the snow (she just didn’t know it yet). We all piled in their rental because it was bigger than our car and had four doors. Still, it was tight. Those car seats take up a lot of space and it’s pretty inconvenient to travel with 4 adults and 2 kids. We made it but I’m not sure it was legal. The kids were safe at any rate.

We all enjoyed a brief frolic in the snow. Ronin was pretty oblivious and I had to shove a bit of snow down her shirt to get any kind of rise out of her.

I don’t think she’d last too long if she were abandoned in a snow bank. Not even in the Eddie Bauer™ wilderness off-road car seat.

Most recently Michelle spent a few days with us. We took Ronin on her first nature outing up to the gorge.

Crown Point, Columbia Gorge, Oregon

My mom actually called me today to complain about the lack a pictures. Sorry, it’s been a whole week. Here’s one from this morning. Michelle is visiting so we drove up the gorge to see the waterfalls. The weathers pretty nice and it’s good to get outdoors.

It’s all Ronin all the time around here. I know that there are certain readers who can’t get enough of her, but for the rest I’ve been thinking about exercising our time machine to add a little variety. Cheyenne’s working on some things as well, but you know how it goes. An infant makes it a little hard to stay focused.

They took an immediate liking to each other.

Seemingly everyone we know is suddenly having babies. Four already this year and we’re still waiting for one from Rachel and Tito. Strangely I suddenly find baby pictures interesting. I always thought parents greatly exaggerated the difference between one baby and another. Now I see how different they are.

Silas Joseph Murphy, Jan 4th

Ronin Coxwell, Jan 13th

Alden Michael Gilg, Jan 18th

Celine Nicole Munoz, Jan 18th

Today’s Oregon Art Beat on OPB featured The Portland Jugglers. It will broadcast again Sunday the 27th at 2am and 6pm. I’m on the right there in the opening few seconds before Rhys starts explaining ancient Egyptian tomb jugglers.