...And, we're back!! ;-) Sorry for the delay in my blogging. I do have lots of pics though!!

So, within the past couple of months, we have moved down to Oregon, and now live in Wilsonville, very near both of our families. What a blessing it has been to us to be near them all again.

We have settled in very well, and Ben is a happy boy!! He's Mr. Curious, loves his dog Mo, and adores both of his grandpas. Although he loves the whole family he's a man's man, and really prefers all the uncles and boy cousins in the family, although at the end of the day he'll almost always come running back to mama. :-)

I'm having a hard time with formatting this blog and I'm really frustrated with trying anymore tonight so I'm just going to describe some of the pics here instead of trying to put comments by every single one. For some reason the formatting gets all messed up and I'm just really over it now.

Ben has several things on his list of what he's going to be when he grows up. He's considering piloting, lawn-mowing, tractor driving, motorcycling, and race car driving. Go get em, kid!! It is amazing to me how boys are just programmed naturally to like that stuff! It is serious business when we go up to Grandpa's house. Number one priority is to find Grandpa, and number two is to get down to the barn and on some heavy equipment. :-) He loves to fly and goes crazy over race cars. A few of the pictures I posted were at Portland International Raceway, and he got to sit in two real race cars. That kid was in his heaven!

We also had the pleasure of going to the Portland All God's Children Int'l picnic today. We got to see some of Ben's Ethiopian buddies from Washington!! Hooray for little Grace and Ruby making the drive down. :-)