Bloomers!

Aaaaahhhhh ....






































































































































































... CHOOOO!



Gesundeit !!



(... sniff)




(I'm sewing bloomers for Trek...ha-ha)

Weather Bugs

Even the littlest guys have to endure storms from time to time...

before ...












... and ...













... after

Springtime in Oregon

Steve and I went for a drive last Sunday and took these pics. Oregon may be rainy, but the dividends are beautiful!




canola fields grown for biodiesel - and yes, I am STANDING!























Red clover in all its glory!




...lots of buzzing going on...

Hide & Seek

Ava and Brycen have recently learned to play hide and seek together. Ava loves to hide, and Brycen loves to seek...so it works out really well. They are so cute together and Drew was fortunate to get this video. Enjoy!

I love my babies--they're getting so big!

So guess who's crawling.... yes folks, he's mobile and wants to do EVERYTHING brother is doing and constantly be with mommy. Love it!!

Who can say no to this face!

Best buds! Jakey loves to play with his brother and make him happy. And Braden is already looking up to him and literally wants to be on top of whatever Jacob is doing.

Cheese! These picts were taken at Easter time. We had a ton of fun with the MacKay cousins hunting eggs, doing an egg relay, and enjoying Easter treats!

One of Jacob's favorite things is his song books from Nana. He knows the songs pretty well now. We were having a little FHE the other night and Jason was able to get this candid camera. He's singing "I Love to See the Temple":) What a sweetie!

Cousins!

Ryan and Natalie came to visit us for a couple of days and we had tons of fun playing with the kids!


Little pals!

Sprinklers!

The weather is getting beee-utiful around here! We had a water day about a week ago and the kids ran in the sprinklers! Fun fun!

Happy Mother's Day!

We have the bravest, strongest, prettiest, most talented MOM ever! I love you mom. Happy Mothers day.

Totally BOY!

Just thought you might get a kick out of this. Brycen definitely provides comic relief at our house!

Happy Boys

They are all growing SO fast! Jett loves to be tickled and laugh and swing not too high on the backyard swing. He's got an abundance of energy and still loves to learn everything he can.

Tucker is just plain cute, mischievous and loving. What a kid...!!

Dallas' personality is really coming out now with "All Boy" actions and trying to keep up with his brothers.

Sunday, everyone came over for dinner and we introduced "GeoCaching".

This is where you go to a web site called - www.geocaching.com and find any of over a million caches that are hidden all around the world. There are well over 10,000 caches hidden within only a few miles of our home and there just happened to be one hidden only .5 miles up the hill from us.
Using a GPS that you download the Cached GPS coordinates to, you just let it take you there and then the fun begins as you try to solve the puzzle or figure out just where they hid the treasure.
This one was at the base of a not so old cedar tree not terribly hard to find but certainly we had to do a lot of looking around in all the "obvious" places.
Of course it's always in the last place you look...
It was in an authentic "GeoCache" plastic container and it had the usual trinkets and sign-in tablet but a REAL treasure that we exchanged was a Compass for Jett. He picked right up on the idea of North/South/East/West...sort of, and later we charted a course out in the field across the street - south by southeast and he found in the tall grass the big critter hole. It was pretty cool.

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love to all,
Mom