Beautiful Sunday

It was such a nice day today so we decided to go check out the temple grounds and play again at the visitor center.

I love this time of year. We get to see tulips and daffodils everywhere. My favorite flowers.

Baseball Season!!!

We are all so excited for baseball season to start. Wes is on the Phillies or "willies" as he sometimes calls them. He just happened to be on the same team as his friend Joey which has been fun for him. He has had 2 games so far and has already improved so much. They haven't even used the T at all during the games. We love going to practices. The coach makes it fun for the whole family by letting us all participate with our boys.

Wes was so proud of this hit. He had the coach jumping to dodge the ball. 

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Easter

Kyson's 1st Easter

We had to wake up really early for church on easter but the boys didn't waste any time getting some of that candy down before we had to go. Even Kyson got what it was all about really fast. His eggs had gerber baby snacks in them and the Easter bunny got him a sippy cup to start trying. 

 We didn't have time to decorate our eggs on Saturday night which is our usual tradition but be invited some friends over on Easter to decorate eggs and do an Easter egg hunt.

 Crazy Happy Smile

 The Hunters. 

 The girls really knew how and loved to pose for the pictures (check out Ashley on the right, so cute) and the boys just didn't want to waste time with all that picture stuff.

 So it was hard to get a good picture of them all. Silly kids.

 We had first planned to do it inside our apartment because we thought it was going to rain but it turned out to be such a beautiful day.

Nathan had to pose for a picture before he went in too. We are really going to miss them.

Happy Birthday Orrin

 It was Orrin's Birthday on the Saturday before Easter and it was a crazy busy day but we had lots of fun celebrating in between all the other stuff we had to do that day.

 Brad was super excited to open this gift. 

 MARIO KART !!!! The boys and Orrin had just finished an beat the new Mario Brothers game (and the only game we have) so it was Orrin's birthday just in time to get a new one.

 Even Ky gets in to playing the Wii with the boys. He demands that he get a remote too and then just sits there and chews on it.

Happy Birthday Babe!!! We love you so much. Here's to an awesome and adventurous 32nd year!

Spring Break 2012

This year Orrin's and Wes's Spring Break were at the same time finally, but it made it feel really short because we were used to celebrating for 2 weeks instead of 1. We ended up doing some spring cleaning in our garage/storage (getting ready to fill it with boxes) and then had some fun around town. 

We took walks on our favorite walking path, The Fanno Creek Trail.

The cherry blossoms were so beautiful. Last summer we had a blast picking and eating cherries from this tree on the path.

We took the only warm, sunny day at the Zoo. We love the Portland Zoo. 

Check out the penguin behind Brad's head. They are always so entertaining. 

The Zebra is behind them.

We were invited to go to OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry).

 The new exhibit was all about Lego's.  In the background are faces made from Lego's.

The view of the I5 bridge from a widow at OMSI. I just love down town Portland with the Willamette River running right in the middle of the city. I love looking at all the old bridges. 

We also checked out the new Portland Oregon Temple visitor center. It has only been open for 2 months. Its supper small. They built it in the old distribution center building but it is loaded with fun interactive things to do. The kids had a blast playing  games and watching video clips on the big touch screens and iPads around the visitor center. They also had a movie room were you can pick from over 100 different movies to watch. So fun.