World of Speed

We visited the the World of Speed museum in Wilsonville, OR today. It's an educational museum featuring historic racecars, boats, and motorcycles that tell the story of motorsports culture. The kids especially enjoyed the hands-on play area. Afterwards, we had lunch out as a family.

The kids out front of the museum

Big Boy!

Stanley was pretty excited!

Riding in a Mustang

Driving a race car

Hugging Batman in the Batmobile

Serious racecar driver

Looking at cars

Stan's favorite car of the day

Jeff Gordon! Pittboro, IN representing.

Little Lisa with a hoverboat

The Wootens in a Mustang

Lisa playing Paw Patrol in the restaurant

Stan reading a comic book

Little Swimmer

Stanley has been progressing so well in his swimming! He just passed level 4 and is on to level 5!

Winter Break Hike

With everyone home from work and school, we decided to spend sometime together in the beautiful outdoors!

A Great Blue Heron perched on a branch

Stanley eating snack by the lake

This is the face you get when you ask Lisa to smile.

They were too busy eating to pose.

Little nature girl

Family of hikers!

The Annual Christmas Morning Family Picture

I just realized that I didn't write a post about Christmas 2014. It was our first Christmas in our house in Camas. Maybe I was just overly crazy busy from just moving? I'm not sure why I was slacking off that year, but in any case, I wanted to look at all our Christmas morning picture together in one place. It seems to be a tradition we've started since Lisa's been born. Here's the last 3 years:

2013

2014

2015

Merry Christmas!!

On Christmas eve, the kids drew Santa pictures and left out cookies and milk (and a carrot for the reindeer). Stanley woke up early in the morning (around 5:30 a.m.), so excited that Santa had visited! He had to wait for Lisa to wake up before we could open presents, so he climbed into bed with Matt and me. He wiggled and talked enough until Matt and I told him he could go ahead and watch some cartoons.

Lisa woke up around 7:30 a.m., and the fun began! The kids had so much fun opening their presents. Santa brought Lisa a Calico Critters house and little animal families, and he brought Stanley Nerf guns. Our families and friends were so generous in buying the kids presents. They were so happy and thankful!

Stanley and Lisa played with all their new toys throughout the day. I gave Glory her present, which was a nice long walk to the lake where she could run and run. I was also able to test out my new Fitbit activity tracker. I got in 10,000 steps on my walk! Matt made a delicious lamb roast for dinner, and we ate a great meal. The kids were so tired, they went right to sleep without a peep. It was a great day!

Putting out milk and cookies for Santa

Christmas Eve with Mommy

Stanley's picture for Santa

Stanley, up early, looking at his presents from Santa

The kids playing with their gifts from Santa

Watch out! Santa armed Stanley with Nerf guns.

Lisa opening her Calico Critter family from Mimi and Papa

Christmas kids and their spoils

Opening their stockings

Lisa's pile of presents

Stanley's pile of presents

Our present from Lisa

Our present from Stanley

Stanley's card that he made for Lisa

The inside of the card:
Dear Lisa, I hope you have a wonderful
Christmas. Love, Stanley

Merry Christmas from the Wootens!

Gingerbread Houses

Stanley and Lisa made a Gingerbread village today!

New Tires

I had to get new tires for our car. Not a very fun activity, however, it's so much better because I have the cutest little sidekick! (And it helped that they had free popcorn!)