Nigel tree

Deschutes with Auntie on Sunday

Rolling around downtown Portland this weekend with auntie Nessa and
the family!

Raking leaves this morning

Autumn Leaves with Lily & Nigel from Isaac Szymanczyk on Vimeo.

We got outside this morning to clean up the leaves, and then this turned into a slice of life over the last 6 weeks in our life. Enjoy!

Sunday downtown

We took the afternoon off on Sunday to head down to the Portland Saturday Market with our friends Bekah and Hasan. Later we found ourselves just the foursome, cruising through the Pioneer Square of our very favorite city. Time for a little warmup with Starbucks.

New front steps!

We got our new front steps completed last week! Elissa had an idea several months ago that our adorable house would be even more adorable if you could see it. So we found some guys who thought they could make us some steps, and we whacked down the outsized bushes in front. Below is the slideshow. Enjoy!

Kids brick is laid!

This year, when the kids returned to school, they got a nice surprise
courtesy of their Nonni and Papa - a personalized brick at the entry
to the school. Thanks folks!

Ridin' dirty in the city

Nigel and I and a couple of buddies headed out Saturday to see if we could see the Flugtag bike event downtown on the waterfront. About 80,000 people showed up, which made it a little hard to see the action (much less cross the Hawthorne Bridge). But we had fun, and circled round the downtown by crossing back on the Broadway bridge, where we saw a party-boat nearly sink beneath us.

The boys did a good job -- about 12 miles total. Check it out.


Moreland Boys Flugtag Ride 2008 from Isaac Szymanczyk on Vimeo.