Wow how time flies!

Well I survived the 2 weeks of work down in Houston. It was crazy and hard work, but I had a blast as always. I am so lucky and thankful for the job I have and how wonderful the people I work with are! I will post a separate blog with all the fun we had!

I made it home to some very mommy sick kids! And I have to say I was really really missing them also!
So not to bore you with all the blah blah I know you all really want to see the pictures!
First off here is Easter! Can you say a little late? Yep I can. I was going to post this in route to Texas but my computer was having memory issues....wonder if it has dementia......oh well here they are now.


Dying the eggs. I just love how creative they are getting.


Caymus giving me his best Easter Bunny impression.


Kids hunting and showing off what the EB brought them. New clothes! They loved them so much!

Aumsville had an Easter egg hunt at the local park. It P.O.U.R.E.D down rain while the kids scrambled to find eggs. They had fun so it was worth it! And they got this cute pic with a soaking wet EB!

While I was gone it was nice out and the kids spent a lot of time riding bikes. So much so that Caymus finally learned how to ride! And let me tell you once he figured it out there was no stopping him! Its all he wants to do and he is not afraid to try anything!
Both kids are getting a bit big for the bikes they have and we really wanted to have bikes at both houses, specially sense now that's all Caymus wants to do!
So I bought them new bikes last weekend. They love them.

Tio Reid came down for a little visit this week and showed Caymus a thing to two about bike riding. It was so great to see him, it is never enough, but we will take what we can get from our crazy, adventure seeking brother/uncle! We LOVE you REID!


Two of my favorite people and my great friends. Abbie and Rob. We had a barbeque and bon fire last weekend. So much fun!


Caymus making Sushi. The rice is a little sticky!


Lucy gets a little more serious about it. Home made sushi, love it!


The kids were so sweet to me for mothers day. They both snuggled with me in bed for a long time and then went and made me breakfast......in bed. This is the first time that has EVER happened and they totally did it all on their own!


Water, nutella and peanut butter sandwich, orange and a vitamin C. Lucy was creative and used some cardboard for the tray. Then they cleaned up the house and tried to dress me....I stopped them there......
We had a great day, bike riding (shocker huh?), sat in the sun reading my book (Eat, Pray, Love), Walked to the local diner for lunch, then to the park, home again. We then cleaned up the house and the car.
All in all it was a WONDERFUL Mothers day. I know my purpose in life and that is to be the BEST mom to my kids.

So now we are all caught up....see how long this lasts!

Conference Update

So my computer is overloaded and has been frequently "vomiting" on me this last week. Probably the worst possible week to do this, but what can I say it wants a vacation!
So My mom updated her blog with some pictures and I thought it would just be easier to tag her blog for all to see!
So take a look at BeachBuns http://beachbuns.blogspot.com/
We are enjoying the day off between multiple conferences and look forward to one more full week ahead!
Peace out!

Update

I was going to blog about Easter and what ever else we have been up to, but my computer is out of disk space and I cant download my pictures. So that post will have to wait.
I am currently sitting on a shuttle bus on my way to the Portland Airport. I will in the great state of Texas for the next 2 weeks.
Next week we are hosting the CatCracking.com Conference and the SulfurUnit.com Conference in League City, then the following week we will be hosting the Coking.com Safety Seminar in Galveston. This means I will eat a ton, not sleep, work my ass off and hopefully have a little fun. This is the first time to do consecutive conferences and also the first for CatCracking and SulfurUnit. It should be an interesting 2 weeks.
I hear the weather is in the 80s and sunny, thank goodness because I am getting really sick of rain.
So as usual stay tuned for lots of exciting posts from me!
Yeeee Hawwww!

Spring Break at the Beach

We took the kids camping for the last weekend of spring break. Newport Oregon. Had lots of fun. Roasting marshmallows, playing in the park, eating tons of yummy food and watching movies.



Saturday we went to the aquarium and science center. The kids did a lot of "touching" in the touch tanks. I think that's their favorite part.






The biggest crab in the world, looking good next to my boy!
Then it was off to the beach! And man do those kids love it! They really enjoyed themselves. I love just watching them, run, yell, laugh, be free....breath.....

Girls Camping Trip

A camping we will go! My friend BJ asked me on Monday if I was interested in going on an overnighter camping trip with her and her daughter. I thought about for about 1.5 seconds. Heck YES!!!!
So we packed up the Tahoe and took off Wednesday afternoon. We both arrived about the same time and set up camp. She had rented a Yurt, the best thing for this time of year. It has 2 bunk beds and a stove inside. The weather was great, so lucky! The kids took off to explore leaving us girls to bask in the sun. AWWWW mama bliss!

Miss Lucy, the rock start! She is totally into "posing" for pictures these days.

Adventure Mo! This girl knows how to camp!


Moose, we made an exception for him, being a boy and all. So he had to be the man of the camp...



And this.......well I don't think I even need to say anything about this.......


These kids have been friends for 6 years now...do the math, Caymus is only 5. And they all got along great. No fighting, at all!


And the mamas of camp!


My dearest Ethel...BJ is really her name!


I know this one is blurry (taken by a 7 year old), but I had to show this. BJ was kind enough to allow me to cook, she knows how much I love it! Thanks BJ! Its just my element, and according to Caymus I am an awesome cook!


Dinner!!!

BJ built us a rocking campfire. Here are the kids chillin by the fire. They were doing skits and singing us songs. Very funny and sweet.


After smores the kids were ready and excited for bed. They decided that they all 3 wanted to sleep in the queen bed. So we laid out their sleeping bags and snuggled them all in. I warned them that if they started fighting we would separate them all. I did encourage them to make it work because they would stay much warmer if they did! They agreed. Amazingly enough they made it all night along in that bed!
We then started a fire in the fireplace and headed back out to our campfire. And it was the best campfire EVER!!! After about 10 min or so, BJ asked if I felt that....what...that....rain....I denied it. Then when the fire started making sizzling noises I agreed that indeed it was raining. We braved it for a little bit, but then it really started to let go. We put out our fire and headed back in. Fortunately we put almost everything back in the Yurt because it poured all night long.
In the morning it was so cold and we could not get a fire started so we decided to pack up and head out. When 2 woman have not had coffee and are wet and cold they can really pack up fast! We were on the road by 9am!

I promised the kids I would take them out to eat, selfishly because I really wanted to be waited on and wanted a lot of coffee fast!!! So we made it back to Salem by 10 and went to Shari's.




A great time was had by all. I think we will do it again soon. Really it was a glorified sleep over but that works for me!!!

And now I am getting all my laundry done so we can go to Newport tomorrow....camping!

St Patricks Day

Top of the morning to ya! I really enjoy this holiday...not really sure why, but I do. We are not actually Irish, our last name is and Marshall's step dad is and that's where our last name comes from. I actually think that the kids and I are the most Irish looking bunch in the whole family.
Anyway, I made the kids green pancakes and green eggs for breakfast, with green milk. Playing with food is so fun!



Both kids got to chase leprechauns at school and Caymus found some gold rocks in the playground that they left behind.



I made my usual Corned Beef and Cabbage for dinner. The kids and Marshall LOVE it! Always have! And yes that is a GREEN beer I am drinking. Happy St Patrick's Day!!!


On Monday Caymus got to bring home Teddy A Bear, he is the class bear that each kid gets a turn taking home and writing about his time.
We did lots of stuff with Teddy, but the best was when we had Octopus for dinner! The kids in his class all thought that sounded really gross, but my kids LOVE it! And so did Teddy!


Teddy also enjoyed some green white chocolate chip cookies!


What a fun week and now we are having amazing weather just in time for Spring Break! Yay! I am guessing we will be heading to the park a lot!

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.