Keeners

This year we opted not to go up to Yacolt and ride the Christmas Tree Train. Instead we went to Vancouver the first weekend in December to see a live Nativity put on by a church there.

We then went to Loch Lolly Christmas Tree Forest here in Hillsboro to see some live reindeer they brought in and the man in red.

And we put up our Christmas tree, complete with Polar Express train. In this house, there is room to fit it around the Christmas tree. Since putting it up, Pat has added a tunnel, another train car and some trees. It’s really very festive.

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I’ll have to admit I was pretty surprised when Noah came home with homework that said he had to do a research project! Second grade to do a research project? I didn’t do my first research project until the 7th grade.

His class has been studying rocks so were assigned to choose a topic related to rocks. Noah chose space rocks (of course). We taught him how to use Google and Wikipedia to look things up and helped him put together a poster board to illustrate what he was presenting.

He actually did a pretty good job in our opinion.

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Against he’s own policy of not preparing for Christmas until December 1, Pat was enticed by the crisp but completely clear weather to put up the outdoor Christmas decorations. The prospect of doing so NOT in the pouring rain overcame his objections to a pre-December Christmas launch.

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