Egg Drop

 The Egg Drop was canceled last week because of rain, today was the day.  Jaida used a 2 liter bottle that had slits in the tip to make it cushion when landing. As you can see she had plenty of padding on the inside too!

 Jenna happened to have recess during the drop so Logan got to go play for a bit with her.

 I was the official photographer, so I took a bunch of shots.  I was surprised how many eggs survived, I'd say about 60% of the eggs made it...even with so many funny contraptions.

Oceanside

Grandma Peggy is out for the weekend so that means we get to go play! We wanted to go to the coast today it was perfect, sunny, not too hot, good sand and ended it Tillamook ice cream of course. I could have stayed there all day watching the waves. We brought the ball again for round 2, it was much better this time, i had to join in the jumping.

Temple

The kiddos had the day off of school today so we took them to the new visitors center at the Portland temple. After the visitors center we went to lunch at the olive garden, and hit Deseret book. The weather was fantastic.

Easter Sunday

 The kiddos were looking smashing in their Easter outfits, we took a few pictures before church in the backyard. 

 Don't mind the horribly photoshopped photo of all of us, hey at least it has us all in it.  I guess I really need a decent tripod.

 We pulled up to the church and the trees outside are looking so pretty with the blossoms.

We had a wonderful day, the speakers and lessons were fantastic. The sunshine really made it so nice, the frosting on the cinnamon bun as it were. Speaking of cinnamon buns, I made a batch for dinner with the Philpots along with some rolls.  I used my Mama's recipe this time and boy oh boy were they delicious! 

Today I was feeling so blessed for my testimony of our Savior, Jesus Christ, his sacrifice for each of us, wonderful family and incredible friends. I am so blessed!

Easter part 1b

Easter part 1a

The Yee's invited us over for our 3rd annual Easter egg coloring party. This year Heidi used the power of Pinterest to help our eggs get some deep nice color, we were all impressed how awesome the color was.

We met up with the JPs for a neighborhood egg hunt, such a beautiful morning for the search!

Easter part 2

Sometimes while I'm searching through old photos to find just the one I'm looking for I find little gems like this. Seriously, if that isn't the cutest face you've ever seen!

Jenna, November 2006

Spring Break Project

I saw plans for these little tents online and have been wanting to make them. With the kids out of school all last week I decided it was time. We headed out to home depot and got the PVC pipe and 1x3 strips of wood, after a few cuts with the miter saw and a few holes to fit

the pipe it was time for Jaida to get the sander going. I wanted to be able

to completely collapse these for storage so I did 3 PVC pipe rods for the fabric to drape over and attach to. A twin size sheet would fit perfectly with a slot sewn on one side for the pipe to fit through. I used fabric I already had for these so some of them are bigger than a twin size. Anyway, the kids have been enjoying them and I enjoy that I can take them down easily.