Happy Birthday Rees!!

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Happy Birthday Rees!!  Birthdays are so much more fun with kids.  No matter how un-excited you are about celebrating the last birthday of your 30's...your kids are SUPER EXCITED!!! It also helps to have Annie make you a deluxe s'mores cake.  Happy Birthday Babe!!  We love you!

Early Summer Tradition

      Once we can hear the toads croaking like crazy at night Corey gets excited and takes the boys up to a small pond near our home.  They go with grocery bags ready to catch toads and bring them back to our yard to live for the summer.  They brought home 9 this year!  Love these fun little rituals.

Pre-School Graduation

     Avery & Brecken graduated Pre-school.  It was a fun night with beautiful, entertaining singing, a well-led pledge and sweet good-byes to Miss Sue.  

 

 

 

Payson Temple

    We had the privilege this spring to attend the Payson Temple Open House.  It was a stunning building and so wonderful to take our family through. 

Lumberjack Corey

     Corey has been loosing sleep over this tree for at least a year.  It is in our yard, but grew over our neighbors house, technically over their roof over their bedroom.  Today it came down.  By the time Corey was done he had his Dad and the neighbor over helping which I was grateful for since it was a little scary and I preferred not to watch. 
      The fence was the only casualty, but they bent it back and voila it was like new.  Corey's never slept so good.

Wrapping up Spring Break

     Corey & Jared had the chance to do some biking together so here are his biking pics.  The Larrabees followed us out of Washington and went to the Columbia River Gorge on our way out for some last minute hiking to Multinomah Falls, Horsetail Falls and Ponytail Falls. 

    Avery had the hardest time leaving. She misses her girl cousins and had so much fun spending the whole week with them including some treasured "sleepovers." She was totally worn out! 

    

 

      Thank you Washington Larrabee's for a wonderful Spring Break!!  We felt so welcome and relaxed at your home.  It's so great to be able to picture where you are, what your house looks like, etc.  We totally miss you more now and can't wait to see you this summer!!  So fun to see you and spend so much time together!!  xoxo

Ape Caves and Girls Day Out in Portland

Needless to say, by Wednesday we were pretty pooped.  We hung out at Jared & Kathy's that morning and then decided to do Ape Caves.  They're lava tubes that you can hike through.  It was super cool.  Ya...that was Avery before the hike.

      This was the only place light enough to get a picture of.  Really pretty and fun adventure!

 

     I believe that nights activities consisted of a movie for the kids and the adults hanging out and talking. When Corey & I were talking about the trip and our favorite thing about it we agreed that the best thing was having one on one time with Jared and Kathy.  Every night after we put the kids to bed we'd stay up talking and laughing together.  So although we went to Washington for Spring Break and to see the beautiful Pacific Northwest, it was the time spent with the Larrabees that meant the most to us.  Love you Washington Larrabees!!

 

 

     I'm not gonna lie.  The Girls day out was so much fun!!!  We started out at the Japanese gardens.  I'll say it again for the billionth time...beautiful!  All of our pictures looked like postcards. 

 

 

     After the gardens we had lunch at the food trucks, yum.  Then we perused Powells Books.  After that we went to Salt & Straw.  It's a fun ice cream shop with different kinds of flavors.  The kid helping us was kind enough to let me sample quite a few including olive oil ice cream.  Kathy got a lavender ice cream and I got strawberry balsamic with black pepper and a pear with blue cheese ice cream.  I was in creative, fun food bliss.  (Thanks Mic for the recommendation!!)  Then we wandered through the cute shops in Portland.  Thanks for such a fun day Kathy!!