Finally, Finally, Finally

Chico (the dog) looks like he needs some serious rescuing. Run Chico, run!!!!

Finally the stars have aligned and Tor got peed on. It was AWESOME! We were eating cupcakes and we gave Lars a little taste (it was a special occasion). Apparently he got so excited that he wet himself and it went right thru the diaper and onto Tor's leg. I would not be so excited but Tor has avoided this fate for almost 9 months. He has also avoided having beer, wine, and water spilled on him as well as avoiding most poopy diapers so he had it coming... As far as I'm concerned he has more coming.

Lars has become a handful! He crawls and stands and loves to go from poisonous plant to electrical outlet to string thingy on the blinds all day long. It is really quite exciting.

We have been quite busy the last few weeks. We traveled to Colorado and saw my family and Lars fell in love with the cat who refused to do anything but lay there and hiss at him. Then, we traveled to Idaho and visited Tor's family and Lars chased the cat and the dog. Now we are back home waiting for the weather to turn nice so we can play outside some more. The Sprung in Portland's Spring has cracked and water is just pouring out. :)

Fire Alarms

They did fire alarm testing in our apartment complex the other day. Very annoying!!! Lars has special ear muffs for concerts and movies (we stole the idea from his cousin) so he was less annoyed than we were.

"What fire alarm?"

"Stand back crowds, you'll get your autograph soon enough".

We took another trip to the zoo, saw the chimp named Leah... again... and fed the Lorikeets.

Lars is much braver than I, when it comes to petting the Lorikeets.

I was mostly afraid it was going to poop on me. I HATE poop.

But Tor is the bravest of them all...

Tor did get pooped on. Luckily, like humans, juice goes right thru birds and the poo on his back was mostly juice

Semiahmoo II

We journeyed up to Semiahmoo (the place we got married) for our 2nd wedding anniversary. It was an absolutely beautiful spring day. Tor and I spent the whole time reminiscing about our perfect wedding and having a great time relaxing. We got upgraded to a suite (the suite we spent our wedding night in) since we spent a fortune (or my dad did) at the place previously... and we're on their website... they should be paying us... but back on subject, here are a few pics of us looking cute for the weekend.

Even though Lars was helping his dad play checkers I STILL won the game.

Sitting on the grass on the spot where we got married.

The exact spot we got married :)

Our room, complete with milk, cookies and chocolate covered strawberries. Tor had this exact treat waiting for me on our wedding night.

Lars kissing his mommy.

Spring has Sprung

Spring has arrived in Portland. It has been sunny and warm all weekend and the natives have dragged out their skimpy clothes. The fountain park next to our apartment building was turned on for the summer and the pee fest has begun! I always think it's funny when a kid is in water and tells his mom he has to go pee. I still pee in the pool, my kids will too... Watch out friends.


Lars, Tor and I "did" the MS walk on Saturday. We walked in honor of my mom and aunt. Lars put in some hard miles, but he was all smiles as usual.


Sunday we enjoyed a hike thru forest park, the largest urban park in the U.S. It's amazing.


We have missed warm weather and hope this will continue for a while.

Lars reading his daddy's anesthesia book. We have to help him with some of the big words.

Lars loves hiking!

Trying to exercise off those last baby pounds (Lars is, not me). Yuck.

Our glorious deck, on a glorious day.

Lars likes himself. Here he is flirting... with himself... at Nordstrom (we stopped during our 5k MS walk, and still beat some people)

Lars eating his race tag.

The cherry blossom trees on the river, what a lovely way to start the walk.

Lars was walking for his grandma and aunt.

Huh????

Okay... Watching Oprah (I know)... However I just learned that Jenny McCarthy, the woman who has made parents afraid of childhood vaccinations, gets Botox injections. Am I the only one who thinks that is craaaazzzy?

More food for thought:

I'm pretty sure I am the only person in Portland who thinks Al Gore is a big, fat, hypocrite, but does anyone else out there think it is absurd that he still flies around in a private jet and has one hurking huge house that most of the people he buys carbon credits from can never even imagine cleaning let alone living in?

On a similar topic I find it hysterical that we get JUNK mail from the Sierra Club... I guess protecting animals and protecting trees are very different things.

Last but not least on my "unpopularist" tirade, why is congress trying to figure out who to blame for dishing out the bailout money that went to bonuses???? They should have listened when we, their constituency, didn't want to do it in the first place. Who's to blame? All of them!

As a side note, foot note, whatever, these questions are all rhetorical and don't call for an answer, unless you agree with me. Because I find that like most other people with a cause, I'm really just in it for the ego boost.

The Knee Bones Connected to the Leg Bone

We ran out of Pj's the other night so we stuffed Lars in a hand me down set that someone had bought their kid for halloween. We thought it was so darn cute that we left him in them the whole next day. Lars and I walked up to the VA Hospital for lunch with Tor and had a great time flirting with all the Vets. (Lars did the flirting...)


P.S. If you ever want to have a first hand history lesson go find a Veteran. They have so much to tell, are more than willing to talk your ear off, and really deserve to have all of us listen.

Pink Cows and White Weddings

March has been eventful around the Sandven/Sandven household. I LOVE weddings. Especially now that the dreaded bouquet toss no longer applies to me. I remember feigning total aloofness at past weddings while simultaneously dreading the single girl walk to the dance floor and hoping that the stupid prediction might be true, and I might catch the bouquet. So... we just recently attended our first wedding with Lars. Tor's friend Young got married in Boston over the weekend and it was quite fun. Lars insisted on talking the whole ceremony so I spent most of the time in the hall, but I imagine it was a nice.

On a completely separate but equally interesting note Lars got a cow for Easter from my parents. I picked it out and accidentally bought a pink one. I decided that I would be modern and keep the pink cow (mostly because I am lazy and didn't want to return it for the black & white one) however after Lars played on it for a day and chewed on its ears, my old fashion sense of male/female won out and I returned it for the other one. I am sure there are many out there who think that I am silly for worrying about the color of my 7 month old's rubber cow, but rest assured I don't care about your opinion... only mine :)

Here are some delightful pictures of both the wedding and the cow:

This was just too cute not to put in here. Note pirate duck in the corner

Lars seems to like pink

or not....

Sage (the bride) was gorgeous

The ushers... the only white (besides the bride's dress) at the wedding

Waiting for the ceremony to start

At the reception.

The best darn cow video EVER