A Fun Playdate...

Earlier this week my friend Jackie and her son Tommy came over for a play date. Jackie and her family live in New York and had came to Oregon for a visit. This was the first time I got to see Tommy and he is just adorable. I think Aubrey loved having someone her size to play with and kept calling him baby. He will be 2 tomorrow. Our blown up air mattress became a fort while Jackie and I got to catch up. I've really missed having Jackie around and hope we will see more of them during their next visit to the West coast. We tried several pictures, but they were Not in the mood ;)

The kids all played in our little house

Aubrey was ringing the doorbell to come in.

The Start of Summer...

What have we been up to this summer? Well we started off our summer by welcoming the arrival of the SUN! The sun is finally starting to show it's face around her and we are loving it! The annual Strawberry Festival came and my kids enjoyed watching the parade and loved all the dinosaurs we seen on all the floats. This year the theme was Stone Age and there were some great costumes and floats. We didn't make it out to the fair for a piece of the strawberry shortcake this year, but we have enjoyed plenty of it at our house. Aubrey looked so cute wearing her Strawberry Festival Shirt!

This was the float the princesses rode on.

They had some great floats this year

The World's Largest Shortcake

Garrett and Aubrey

Lukas, Jaren and Hunter were all ready to catch the candy that would be thrown out!

More posts to come with the great things we have done this summer.

The Season Is Over...

Lukas with his shiny new medal

Lukas and Porter

Team Tritons

Refueling, it's tough out there

Jaren and his new medal
Team Great Whites

Isn't he cute?
Check me out

Our soccer season is over and I'm finally getting around to posting some pictures. The boys both improved so much this year and look forward to playing again this Fall. Justin coached both of their teams and is really welcoming the break. Jaren's team got Justin this really great sweatshirt to thank him for coaching. The picture was really cute and they all enjoyed looking at their own picture once he put it on. When the games where over every kid was given a medal and it took several days for Lukas to quit wearing his. It's now hung up on his skateboard shelf.

School Is Out...

School is out and now we are waiting for summer to start. Sun sun come out wherever you are. As of June sixth we had already gotten 1 1/4 inches of rain this month. Crazy I know! Well my son's school really lucked out and we were blessed with a day of overcast as we enjoyed field day. The kids had a blast. Each class got to go around to all kinds of stations to compete in different challenges. The school also had a HUGE bounce slide and a even bigger bounce obstacle course. Jaren loved it. Towards the end of the day the kids were given snow cones. What a great way to finish up the day. With the school year over, my son is all ready for second grade! The end of the obstacle course

Getting ready to slide down the huge slide

GO Jaren GO!

Snow cone anyone?

A couple of classes enjoying their treats

Rain Rain Go Away...

Yesterday was the start to the Strawberry Festival in our small little town. We have a small kiddie parade on Friday and a larger parade on Saturday. I know that the committee spends so much time putting everything together and this year rain is really putting a damper on it. As I'm writing this, it's pouring out and I can already tell that my kids and I won't be going to the parade today. I've always looked forward to this event ever since I was a little kid. It was always the start of summer, school was out and it was my best friends birthday. We would go out to the fair and I would pass on riding anything in fear of getting sick. Meanwhile she could ride everything over and over. I always admired the courage she had. =) So ran if you could just go away at least for the weekend if not until Fall, that would be GREAT!!!

Our New Adventure...

Our family is involved with the Great American Postcard Swap. Aimee over at http://adventuresandpursuits.blogspot.com/ has set this up. We were set up with a family from each state and put on a schedule of when we will send out our postcards representing Oregon. The postcard swap works like this, starting in alphabetical order each state will send out a postcard to all the other families. The way it works out we will be getting a postcard each week from a different state. My kids LOVE getting mail, so this has been really fun so far. I'm looking for a some type of book for us to store all of our postcards in. Here are the first two cards we have gotten. Both have had great info about each state. It's a lot of fun and I will make sure to post our new cards when we get more. This card had a great little drawing of the state and a Eagle on the back along with state info.
This card from Alabama had so much state info and a list of famous people who have came from this state.

A Chair Redo...

Over the Memorial weekend, the hubs and I got ton's of projects finished. By the end of each day we were exhausted. This was a little project that I have wanted to tackle for awhile. My poor dining room chairs were crying out to me to recover them. Between my own kids and all the daycare kids that i watch, the chairs have been destroyed. I've tried all types of cleaners to remove the stains. It worked for awhile, but I think the fabric had it's fill and wasn't going to release any more stains. After I found some fabric I liked, I convinced Justin to let my use his staple gun and got to work. I recovered all six chairs with the new fabric and then took four chairs and covered the seats in plastic. I know, plastic will not be getting me into any fashion magazine anytime soon. That plastic will save my new covers for a very long time. My husband kept giving me all kinds of complements. I told him I want a staple gun of my own now =) Do they come in pink or purple?
I'm showing you one of the nicest chairs. I wanted to spare all of you the pictures of the really nasty ones.) The husband has been warned. If he spills on his seat, it's getting a plastic cover!As you can see the plastic is not super pretty, but do you see all the crumbs on the chair from breakfast. Um yeah, the plastic has already came in handy.