I’m finally updating

Wow has it been almost two months since I last posted? I guess I been busy with my boys. Both Michal and Andrew had fieldtrips that I went on. School is out for the summer, grandma came for a visit, we went to Day out with Thomas, we had two weeks of swim lessons a day trip to Mount St Helens and the 4th of july. We are also working on our garden and summer camp just started for Michael and Andrew and they are really are excited about it.

Here are some pictures of the fieldtrips.

Michael’s class went to the Newberg police and fire station.

Andrews’s class went to a local farm and he got to ride a horse. We also saw chickens, cows and brushed a horse.

Tulip Festival

This weekend we continued to explore Oregon with a day trip to the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm for their annual festival. Who new there were so many verities of Tulips? The boys loved the hay pyramid and walking thru all the fields. (Also helps to get out some of their energy.

Of course I ordered a few verities of tulips and daffodils which I will receive next fall for planting.

The windmill was to festinating so of course I could not get them to all look at the camera at the same time.

My three tulips.

Just acres of tulips.

Very popular with all of the farms up here are the tractor barrels pulls. I’m not to sure how safe this really is but the boys love it.

A tractor from 1911.

Relaxing in a wooden shoe

Ag Fest 2009

Last weekend (sorry I don’t get to update sooner) the boys and I went to Oregon’s Ag Fest. There was just too much to do. We got to see where our food and fiber comes from, the importance of forest, plant seeds, transplant vegetables and dig for potatoes. Unfortunately I did not get that many pictures.

All three boys got a tomato plant for our garden. They however did not tell us what types of tomatoes they were. So they could be great for our sandwiches or tiny cherry, I guess well find out in a few months. They also got seeds for the Indian corn I’m excited to see how they turn out.

Here are a few pictures I did take.

Tractor races.

Making bird feeders.

Christopher looking at some goats.

Andrew glasses

For awhile Andrew has been having some problems seeing. I made and appointment for him and it took 2 months before we could get in. We found out that he indeed needed glasses. Poor little guy did not realize that he was not seeing thing correctly. Andrew now is making his letter and can sit in his chair and watch a TV show.

I think he looks so handsome with his new glasses.

Happy Easter

This year we went to the community Easter Egg hunt. They had our local firefighters there with Spot the safety dog.


After the hunt looking at all the goodies.

For Easter it was a pretty quite day. All three boys woke-up early to hunt for eggs. Michael and Andrew worked as a team and Christopher got help from Daddy.

Beautiful weekend in Portland

Sorry I did not do a vacation update this weekend but we had beautiful weather and who wants to be indoors with nice weather?

On Saturday I took the boys to a little safety fair and they had a blast. The police were there giving away free helmets. All three got one. I could not believe they were not even asking for donations. The boys also got to plant seeds and we were given a few packets of sunflower seeds that Andrew can’t wait to plan. They got to sit on a fire truck and see a drag racing car.

The police also had a safety course set up and I brought their scooters so for the last 45 minutes they rode their scooters with their new helmets.

On Sunday I decided to help with the lawn and try to mow well after an hour of trying to get it started plus a trip to the gas station for gasoline I gave up and wondered why I didn’t just plant my bulbs out front.

This morning is look just as wonderful again so I think I’ll take Andrew and Christopher out and plant my bulbs and they can run around and burn off some energy.

Back from vacation and Heath gone on business

We were gone on a two week vacation to Southern California. We had a blast. During our time there we went to Disneyland and the LA Zoo and visited with family and friends. Then after getting back home Heath had to go on a business trip. So I’m still getting everything unpacked and the boys are getting back into our old schedule.

I’ll be posting pictures later.