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.

Beach

We hit the beach today for spring break. Beautiful day! We brought my exercise ball to bury and jump from. It worked a little, but I didn't have my good shovel. It was a bit breezy so we drove down to Tillamook for ice cream. Mmmmm. Good day!

Snow!

We finally got some snow around here on Thursday, a little late in the season but we'll take it. The schools were delayed 2 hours so we got to play a little bit and make a snowman/mouse. Hard to believe it was snowy, I got the lawn mowed yesterday in the sunshine.

Brasada Ranch

 Russ and I got away for the weekend, sans kids! We haven't done that in well...ever!

We got a little deal on Groupon for a place down by Bend, Oregon called Brasada Ranch.

The drive out we went over Mt Hood and it was beautiful!

 The first night was kinda cloudy, but Saturday was perfect weather.  We got up and went for a hike up to Spirit Rock, got ready and went into Bend for some shopping. When we got back we wanted to hike the taller hill behind Spirit Rock so we got our hikin' shoes on and went for it. It was a good little hike (my calves are still sore from it).

 Our cabin backed up to the golf course, I did what I do best...find golf balls.  Ha! That's for you, Ma. We grabbed some groceries in Bend and had ourselves a little BBQ.

 We loved the hot tub on the back of the cabin, perfect after shopping and hiking all day!

 The view was great, really private.

The drive home was beautiful, even with the snow over Santiam Pass it was so pretty to see the snow covered trees along that scenic drive.

A HUGE thanks to the Yees and Philpots for watching our kids, we have amazing friends and feel so blessed to have them in our lives!

The First Ride

The girls wanted to ride their bikes tonight, had to pump up a couple tires and they were off. Can these kids stop getting so big please?! Jaida looks so old to me.

Headboard

This was a pretty simple headboard to make, I kinda followed the plans from Ana-White.com, it is supposed to look line the Mason headboard from pottery barn. Just used 1x4s, 1x6s, glue and brad nails to put this baby together. I wanted it to hang on the wall so I made a cleat to hang it from. From shopping for wood to hang up on the wall was about 26 hours, not too shabby. My friend Jillyn picked out the paint color, I used spray bottle to water it down so we could see the grain through the paint. I added a little black in the corners and put a brown glaze over the whole thing and it was done.

Dr Suess

The kids celebrated Dr. Suess' birthday today at school, we had green eggs and bacon for breakfast and the girls enjoyed their truffula tree hairstyles.

Note

Jenna gave me a special note when I went to kiss her goodnight. She told me it was for me and Dad, it says "I love you mom and dad because you are pretty (mom) and cool (dad)..." I especially love the heart with "kissing" in it.

Kids

 I took the kids out for a mini photo shoot, because I didn't have a recent picture of them all together and also because of Jaida's 10th birthday pictures.

Jaida is 10!

 I wanted to add some pictures of Jaida throughout the years. It was so fun to go through all the old photos from Michigan until now. What a joy Jaida has been in our lives, so sweet and good.

 

We took the kids out for Jaida's birthday, she wanted to go to Big Al's for bowling and video games then out to dinner. So happy this girl is ours!

Head Wound

Ever since Logan had stitches its been fun to take him places and hear everyone's stories about their stitches. Today at target the checker and the guy in front of us started talking about their wounds after they found out about the "head on the bricks" incident.

4 Stitches!

Logan fell off the couch and hit his head on the corner of the brick fireplace. I heard the thud and ran over, he covered it with his hand and started to cry. I picked him up and took him to the kitchen to put a cloth on it. Mackenzie was here and very worried about him, she was a big helper holding the bandage on while I wrapped it up.

I got a good giggle when she told me she had to swallow her puke after seeing his wound. Haha!

We loaded up and the girls got off the bus just in time to hop in the van. We went to the ER and got right back to a room. It took a while for the doc to show up but it didn't take long when he got there. Logan was a big boy, hardly cried at all when they were working on him. When they were done he was all smiles! Very proud of him for keeping still and being strong!

Salt Lake

Just finished this for a client.