Littlest Pet Shops are Taking over my House

Jessie loves Little Pet Shops, she has been getting them for the past couple of years for birthdays and Christmas... until last week.

Aunt Nikki hit the motherload. She found about 50 bizillion of them at a garage sale for $6.00! When Jessie opened the box, her eyes about fell out of her head.

She has spent the last few days setting them all up in a row, taking them down, and starting all over again. She is in awe of them, it's so cute! Thanks Aunt Nikki, we love you :D

Mark has been...

in the past month:

Running a half Marathon. The Helvetia Half Marathon's course is right out here by our house, it is 13.1 miles out in the country. Mark and Kasey ran it and did great! You guys are awesome :D

Catching fish, and they are actually big fish! I know, you were all starting to doubt Mark and his fishing abilities. He can catch a big one, this is a Steelhead Salmon caught on the Washougal River in Washington.

Making a wood surfboard. He and Kasey are each making one, they are going to be really cool.

Cutting off his fingers. While cutting out wood for above surfboard on our tablesaw, he tried to cut off his middle finger and had to get 3 stitches. Ouch! I know, you love me for sharing a picture of it!

Mark: He loves to keep it interesting.

Memorial Day Weekend

We have had some bad weather the past few weeks. We decided to go outside anyway, we can only handle being indoors for so long, it's almost June!

On Saturday we went to Short Sands beach to surf. Mark has some friends who go out once a year on a "Fathers Day Surf Trip" even though it was overcast all day, we still had a good time.

We finally got our canoe in the lake today! The weather was perfect, it was sunny and about 70 degrees. We paddled around for about 6 hours and caught two dinky fish. We had a blast!

Mother's Day

After church on Sunday we took a drive up to Mt. Hood. It was a really nice day. We stopped at the river and went fishing, Mark caught a dinky fish, but at least he caught something!

Browns Camp

We need to go camping more often. I am such a LAME-O homebody now... it's just easier to stay home. Once I got out there, I had a really fun time! What is wrong with me? I do want to go more this summer, so here is hoping!

There was a nice little river running through the area. Jessie loved it. She kept wandering off to explore.

Jessie and Jenny like the hammock too, they played on it for hours.

Have a S'more!

Curren cat napping on the roof of the truck, he's like a cat, it was warm up there.

Laughing and laughing with dad.

Super fun!!

Riding Dirt Bikes

A few weekends ago we went camping with the Oliver Family up to Browns Camp. You drive out Highway 6, and head up into the mountains, it's only about 40 minutes from our house, and close to Tillamook. It's really pretty up there! There are riding trails all over the mountains so the guys go there a lot. It was a bit early to go camping, still wet and chilly, but we had a fun time.

Curren has a tiny dirt bike that goes about 10 mph, and he follows Mark around. It's pretty cool to see him riding. He does a really good job. Like father like son :)

I had a really nice birthday last month. I turned 30! I love that it has been a good 30 years, what a blessing. Here I am with my cute kids. Mark spoiled me rotten, he's too good to me :D

We went to the beach with the Jarvis family last weekend, it was a really nice day, but towards the end the kids were pretty cold. I am happy we can be at the beach again, I've missed going.

On Mother's Day weekend there is a Quilt Festival at Jenkins Estate in Beaverton. Mark was out riding his dirt bike, so I took the kids to it. Jenkins Estate is beautiful! Here are two pictures I took of it. If you live around here be sure to go and wander around the gardens, you won't regret it.