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Cara had her 3rd grade school program and was quite excited. The theme was "Your driving me nuts!" and all the songs had the theme of the life cycle of a tree. Cara was a tree!

We have decided to create a bee hive for mason bee's, which are really good pollinators and are solitary bees. The girls are quite excited. Madison even spent 3 hours in the woodshop with Tim working to create the masterpiece.

I was quite excited to see her interest in conserving nature. Poor Cara was stuck in bed with the stomach bug. She will have to help next time.

Two years ago we delayed our trip to Germany to go to Italy with my family. The girls loved Italy and really enjoyed learning the history. This year we will head now to Germany to visit Heather and Jazmin in Krickenbach. We have rented an apartment a few doors down from Heather. The girls are excited. This year Madi took a sampler in languages and one of them was French. She really enjoyed learning the language and culture. Tim is now listening to French tapes with her, as I listen to German tapes with Cara.

We would like to take a side trip to France for two days. We are looking at this apartment to rent. It seems to have a lot of charm. We are hoping so at least! I will have to write up on how it goes!

Legotricity went to her second FLL First Lego League competition and had a great time. This was a hard year for teaming and building, with 7 very talented and smart kids. They really had to learn a lot of give and take. Especially when it came to the challenges. I was very proud of the way they did the alternative energy audit on Medical Teams International. They ended up coming up with some really great ideas. I would like to thank Dan Crowell Excalibur Solar, LLC. Tigard. (503)869-6018 for helping the kids learn about solar power and answering all their questions. He is a great person to go to if you are thinking about getting solar in the Portland metro area.

So many of you have been wanting to see photos, and I did finally post a good deal of them in my gallery including a recent Santa photo of the girls and a school photo of Madi. All those can be found on my Gallery thanks to Tim for spending a whole weekend after Deannas' birthday party to upgrade the server so that you can view them!

Yes, I did buy the copywrite for this photo.

What started out as an idea in our wishbook is becoming a reality. The problem first arrived when I fell in love with this table in 2005. It fit wonderfully in Tims dining room, since I didn't have a place for it in my townhome. Once the table arrived, we realized quickly that white carpet (or carpet in general) was not going to do it for this table. The arms of the armchairs were lifted too high. Tim started drawing up a wishlist for his "formal" dining room with wall panels, ceiling beams and of coarse, wood floors.

Well now here in 2007, we are halfway there.

The girls experienced their first Oregon Snow Days this year with 5 inches on the valley floor. Enough to sled down the big Bull Mountain hills at record speeds. In this first photo, Cara is trying to make the same face as the snowman, I think she is close!