progress on the new house

We've had fun working on our new house this last month!   I haven't taken a lot of pictures, but below are a few of the before pics!  We are hoping to move in in a couple weeks.  I will add more pictures soon!

Grace and Will had a great work day moving rocks.  

We took out the walls that were surrounding the linoleum, and raised the living room floor.  

What we've been up to the last month. . . .

I recently updated my computer which caused me not be able to upload pictures to my blog. . .until now! I finally figured out a way and am posting a lot of the things we have been doing this last month! 

(We've been spending a lot of time at our new house, but I decided to make that a separate post!)

Will's pitching machine team.  Pat was the coach, and there were a lot of helpers! He had a great team with really nice kids!

Will and his friend Sam. 

I helped Bobby coach Kate and Grace's team.  Here is Grace with her cousin Emily. 

Kate and Grace with Emily, and their friends Slater and Colton. 

Kate up to bat! 

This represents the kids' favorite part of the games:) . . . snack time!

It was great to have my mom in town! 

Papa Bill's birthday! 

We had a fun BBQ with Matt and Noel and Muriel and Murray on Memorial Day. 

The kids made a super fun water slide! 

Grace sang "Rudolf The Red Nose Reindeer" for the 1st Annual Grant Watts talent show! 

Someone gave Pat a box of Voodoo Donuts for Donut Day (who knew there was such a thing!) and the kids were super excited about it! 

They were outside at 9am playing in water last Saturday morning because it was so hot!! I loved it! 

Will is 8!

We had fun celebrating Will over the weekend.  His birthday was on Friday, which was fun, because he could celebrate at school:).  Our family celebrated with him on Friday night with his request of Burger King and apple pie:), and Saturday he had a party at the park with some friends and family.  

Will's got a bat for his birthday from Pat and I.  And it was awesome b/c he go the Blazers jersey last year, and both years they had a playoff game on his birthday! So he wore it all day for the big game:). 

He wanted apple pie instead of cake (inspired by my mom).  It was fun to make it, and so yummy! 

He wanted an outdoor sports day for his party, and we lucked out because it was so pretty! 

Grandma Reen and Papa Bill with Annie and Jane. 

And closing the day with Monopoly!  

Palm Springs

I had a great weekend with my college girlfriends in Palm Springs! We try to get together every year or so, and as always, it was great to connect with friends! We all appreciated, even those who brought their kids, the luxury of having no agenda and hanging out by the pool all day! 

I didn't take a lot of pictures, because I was too busy relaxing:), but below are a couple from our weekend! 

We had drinks/appetizers over at the resort one of the nights! 

This was our whole day on Saturday, just lounging by the pool:). 

Hiking, St. Patrick's Day (a little out of order:)),Easter, and other stuff!

Each weekend when we're in town, I want to do some sort of family activity. We used to go to the zoo, which was great! But now, we're more inclined to do something around here.  My friend told me about a hike on Sauvie Island, so we checked it out, and it was awesome! It was so easy to get to, and so pretty! 

St. Patrick's Day

The kids had green oatmeal.  They truly believed that the leprechaun turned it green! It's so fun to have them get excited about that stuff, but then strange at the same time because I don't like tricking my kids:).  

EASTER

The kids had so much fun having Easter egg hunts at Bobby and Carrie's!

Look at our beautiful tulips! 

After school snacks! Not usually popsicles, but it was a super hot day! 

Kate and Grace making a super fort! 

Grace's room:). 

Kate's room:). 

Kate and Annie loved playing with the play-dough! 

I was trying to capture all her curls! 

I let Kate bake her "cookies".