pictures and plans

Here are the pictures that I was unable to upload yesterday. Bright loves his kitty. Sometimes a bit too much. She is tolerant of him, even though she used to be a bit bitey when we first got her back in OR. Maybe she has figured out that he is here to stay.

Bright seems to love to get involved in everything we are doing. On this day we were taking down the sheers in the living room and replacing them with cellular blinds to keep the heat out better. Bright had a blast picking up the tension rod and carrying it around unsafely through the house- until it was confiscated.
Still wearing my hat around.....
Wouldn't we all like to fall asleep like this?
Bright's hair is getting pretty long in back but the curls are too cute to snip off just yet.

So we are trying to plan a trip out west during Andy's winter break from Dec.-Feb. We were thinking of maybe 10 days split between Portland, Eugene and maybe back to Santa Cruz, if we could get Bright to ride a car that long. If not, then maybe out to Sunriver. I am thinking that early-mid January would be a good time to go. We'll keep working on a firmer plan. The idea of traveling with an almost 2 year old seems daunting.