I was going back over some old pictures last night and I decided that I just don't share *enough* of my life on the Internet and I ought to post some of my pictures from the past year that I never got around to posting on the blog.

Here you go.

You're welcome.


This is Evie and it was taken last March. I can offer no further explanations or excuses for this photo.


This is Eric and I standing on a warm, sandy beach in Grenada. Because there's nothing like the end of January in Oregon to make you wish you were back in the tropics.



This is a giraffe peeking at his visitors at the Oregon Zoo this summer. Because giraffes are my favorite zoo animal.



This is Beth and Abraham Lincoln, on that day last summer when I discovered time travel.

What, I didn't write about that?

OK, it's actually with this guy at the Enchanted Forest whose whole job is to stand around looking like Abraham Lincoln all day.



This is the Oregon Coast. It's really beautiful. If you don't already live in Oregon, I recommend rectifying that situation immediately.



This is my garden's biggest tomato of the summer right next to its smallest tomato of the summer.




This is Lucy holding her brand-new cousin Aubrey for the first time. I just love the awed expression on her face.





This is the Miracle Macaroni; I was in the kitchen when Beth shrieked, "Come take a picture, Mama. Quick, quick!"

Do you see it? Look beyond Beth's weird expression and the hair all in her eyes.

There, on the table, on top of the Sunday funnies...a single piece of macaroni standing up all by itself. We lead an amazing life around here, don't we?




This is what my kitchen looked like after the girls and I made Christmas cookies this year. This is the reason I posted as my status update that day: "Christmas cookies: 1; Jen's kitchen: 0." And yet I always do the cookie decorating thing with them every year. I can't not do it and I can't do it by myself. That would just be wrong.




This is another pretty nature photo. This is First Lake, Simpson Park, Albany.




And this is Evie, just being Evie. Feel free to laugh out loud if you want. I don't know what that kid is doing half the time, but she always makes me smile.