Life's a Picnic

After sleeping in and watching cartoons all morning, we headed out to the water front park in Salem for a picnic. Lucy loves picnics. She has a really cute basket that my mom got here a few years ago and is always dying to go. So today was the day.
We laid out our blanket and set up....after about 1.5 min we all were freezing. The sun had been shining and it looked like an ok day. Guess we were off a little. We tried to make it through our lunch, but with teeth chattering its kinda hard to chew. So we picked up and took the picnic to the car. Good thing to because it started pouring down rain shortly after we got there. The kids really thought it was cool to picnic in the car!

After lunch we went in and road the carousel. Twice.

Yep they even got me on. Twice.

The water front park has this awesome eco-earth at the very end, right next to a 9/11 tribute. Way cool. The kids have been there "thousands" of times but I had not.

After the park was a trip to DQ. Again I heard that they go there "all the time"....hmmm lots of trips with grandparents I assume!

My sweet little chicka, Moka sure does look cozy too!

And Moose, my little sweetness!

To wrap up our busy day we made cookies and played a game of Operation. Operation is a HARD game!!!

It was a great day.

March Madness!

We have been keeping busy! After Grandma Barb left last week, we started getting back to "normal".
This weekend was the school carnival, put on by the PTC. I have been trying to become more involved in the PTC this year....hope that doesn't come back to bite me......so anyway, I helped paint decorations, went to a meeting and we did more prep, then on Friday spent several hours at the school setting up. I was assigned to the Bouncy House for the first shift. Oh my gosh!!! It was crazy. Thank goodness Lucy stuck around and helped me time the kids or I would have lost my mind. Once my shift was over, the kids and I ate and then played some games. We also stuck around to help clean up.

We also took advantage of some decent weather this week to walk to the park and play.

Lucy ran off with my camera and took some pictures of Caymus in his bed....I did have to delete several of who knows what. But I did think these were really cute.

Here he is showing off his awesome Avitar poster and airplanes we hung from the ceiling. Grandpa should be proud! He built those years ago with my brothers.

Grandma Barb comes to visit

Mom my came out for a visit this week, all by her self! I cant think of the last time she did that!! I guess she decided that if she was to wait for my dad to be free long enough to come down, they would never make it here! (he is currently in Malaysia on a job)

So we all got some good Grandma/Mom time!
Her and I took advantage of the kids being in school during the day and went shopping!!! Pier 1, Victoria's Secret, Old Navy, Target, Wal Mart.....

Lucy made an ice cream Sunday with some fancy colored play doh.

They took a walk to the Aumsville water tower.....

And to the park....several times.


Blue Raspberry Martini's.....mmmmmmmmm

Made homemade pizza and cookies!


And a lazy Saturday morning game of Cranium.

Thanks for coming down mom! I love you!!!

Monster Jam!

For Valentines Day, Marshall took the kids to Monster Jam 2010. He had taken Caymus 2 years ago and he talks about it all the time, and loves monster trucks. So this year both kids go to go and both had a blast!

Right at the end Grave Digger flipped over and I guess it was quite something watching them flip him back upright. And amazingly he still won!

Valentines Day Parties

I love class parties! Both kids had a lot of fun and strangely similar parties! That could have something to do with me being a class mom for both classes. I do have counter parts in the planning department fortunately!
They passed out their valentines and read each and everyone of them. So cute hearing them oooo and aaaaa over the cards and thank their friends. Then we made a cute little craft with a picture of them on it, decorated cookies and ate a ton of candy and sugar!

Caymus with his "I love you this much!" picture craft.

I think someone learned how to do bunny ears!

Happy Valentines day!!!

200th Post and 30th Birthday

Wow what to say! Its my 200th blog post and my 30th birthday all in one!!!

The good news is I made it out of bed this morning.....that's a start right? I am officially in my 30s now.....good by to my 20s.......I have heard that your not really an adult until your 30s....so what was I before?

Here is a collage of photos my dad had made a while back.....

Here is to the next 30!!!

January photo update

Well since I am a month behind in my blogging I am going to just update you with some photos and then pick up in February....

We celebrated Moka's 9th birthday on Dec 30th. He invited Houston the cat this year....

On January 6th we enjoyed 3 kings day. This is a favorite around here because it is our special holiday....Only the Puerto Ricans in our family actually get to celebrate it.....

We have been busy with wrestling, here is Caymus at a meet in Newberg. What a little stud! I just love watching him tear it up on the mat!

We took the team to Redmond, Or for the Oregon Classic. This is one of the largest meets in the country. 3 full days of wrestling. Lucy got to compete in the all girls division. We have fond memories of taking our girls teams in the past. It was really fun to share this with her!

Here is Lucy and her BFF Sara getting ready to wrestle.