Aviation Museum in McMinville, OR

For Chris and my 12th Anniversary we just went away for the weekend. We decided to do something as a family. We took the kids to the Aviation Museum where the Spruce Goose is. The kids really liked it. Not only were there some neat planes and rockets, but there was a Flight Zone area where the kids could play, we saw an IMAX 3D movie about space, and there was a playground. Holly loved the 3D movie, at first she was scared, but then she thought it was neat seeing the stars coming at her. She was trying to catch them! Carson liked the "huge plane"-the Spruce Goose. But I think Carson's favorite part was on the way to and from the museum we had to take a ferry across the Willamette River. Carson thought that was really neat to drive onto a ferry and go across the water. We had a fun day!

Amy and Rustys' Boy shower!

Amy and Rusty are fostering 2 boys right now (most likely will be adopting!). Thomas is 5 yrs. old and Joshua is 8 weeks old. They most likely will get the boys permanently so we went ahead and threw them a BOY shower. Soozee and I hosted the shower,at the church building, and it was a great turn out. Amy and Rusty needed stuff for both Thomas and baby stuff for Joshua so we called it a BOY shower. We had fun and it took a while for them to open all the gifts. Everyone was so giving. I found this idea to make a diaper "cake" and it turned out really cute. Amy didn't want to take the "cake" apart. I'm glad that we were able to throw them a shower and that they finally have been blessed with children in their lives.

Easter Egg Hunt-Saturday

We brought the kids to the annual Easter Egg Hunt at Stewart Park in Roseburg. It is always a big event! Carson was so excited to get the eggs but then when the time came-he got about 3 eggs and then turned towards me and started getting upset. He didn't want to do it anymore-so I went out there with him and helped him get eggs. Then Holly and Thomas had their turn. Holly did good-but she has an interesting tactic when getting the eggs. Instead of grabbing all the ones closest to her-she grabs maybe two and then runs over to another section and gets a few more, then runs and gets more-you can see in the pictures she was way out in the middle of the field-it was funny to watch. Then we played on the swings for awhile and that is one of Holly's favorite thing to do. She loves to swing at school and at our house. Swinging is one of the few things she has mastered!

It was fun to have Amy and Rusty come with us this year, since they have Thomas, who is in Holly's kindergarten class. Holly and Carson love playing with Thomas!
We're excited to have everyone over on Easter Sunday this year!