Horses

Emma really loves horses right now, and wants to ride them, feed them, all that great stuff. My mom's neighbor has horses, so when we go down there the kids always make the trek to feed and talk to the horses. Emma LOVES them, and cries when we have to leave...so, here's some pictures of their latest visit :-)

Emma and Sarah

Emma and Bailey

This is one way to get 4 kids to stand still for more than 2 seconds :-)

These guys are becoming really good friends- Jack and Ben

Lazy Days in the Sun

The past few days have been beautiful, but a little hot for this momma :-)The kids have had a blast though. Their cousin Lucas and Uncle Mark came over to do some swimming and slip and sliding, they got to play with the neighbor girls many times, and swam and played in the sprinkler all day! Summer is going to be fun!

Our little man is growing up soo fast!


Emma and Lucas take a break from swimming to eat a cinnamon roll...


I thought this was cute, but it looks like she's about to strangle him..hmmm..

Okay, I couldn't resist this picture...I think his swim trunks are a little big :-)

I've been tagged!

Well, I got "tagged" by my friend Amanda on this, so maybe you can all learn something new about me :-) Scarrryyyy... :-)

Amanda tagged me; here are the answers...

Four jobs I've had:
1. Safeway courtesy clerk
2. Oregon Zoo
3. Camp Tapawingo (some of the best times :-))
4. Accounting firm office assistant

Four movies I've watched more than once:
1. Anne of Green Gables
2. Return to Snowy River
3. Dead Poets Society
4. National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

Four places I've lived:
1. Dallas, OR
2. Portland, OR
3. Port Orchard, WA
4. Battle Ground, WA

Four places I've been:(Amanda, I didn't have to change the first three, cuz they were all with you..haha)
1. London
2. New York City
3. Ireland, Scotland
4. Honduras, Central America

Four TV shows I watch:
1. The Office (love that show)
2. John and Kate plus 8...I could watch it all day (I'm with you there, girl)
3. Criminal Minds
4. Mystery Diagnosis

Four people who email me regularly (doesn’t include blogging comments):
1. Amanda, long distance best friends!
2. Stephanie Vos- hey girl!
3. Janell, who is far away in Spain :-(
4. My sisters, when they make time for me :)

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Pizza
2. Ice Cream!
3. Thai
4. Cereal

Four places I would like to visit:
1. Alaska
2. Austria/Germany
3. Cape Town, Africa
4. Islands in the Caribbean (Yeah, that sounds nice too right about now....)

Four things I'm looking forward to in the coming year:
1. Maybe no more diapers??? (one can hope, right??)
2. sending emma to her first day of preschool
3. going to the beach with my family
4. Adam and Bridget moving out here!(Daves brother)

Four friends I'm tagging: (if you don't have a blog, you can just send them to me in an email- maybe I'll learn something about YOU!)
1. Janell Ward
2. Bridget Hughes (i gotta know these things, we're "sisters" now :-)
3. Lisa Dunnavant
4. Jane Schmidt

Merwin Reservoir

The four of us got to spend a whole day fishing together up at Merwin Reservoir..Dave works up there a lot, but I had never been up to the lake before. Its about 40 minutes north of our house towards Mt. St. Helens in the boonies :-) But it is absolutely gorgeous there, and it was a beautiful day too! We spent over 4 hours in the boat (I can't beleive the kids made it that long!), and we caught 9 fish! But we only got 5 fish in the boat, the other 4 got away... It was so fun, and Emma caught her first fish! Here's some pictures...
So excited!

Ben's ready to go...

Emma's first fish!

going fast!

Emma took this one of me and benjamin

A picture of the lake

parenthood is full of suprises :-)....

On the Benjamin front:
So, this kid is a maniac, and keeps Dave and I busy chasing him, and well, mostly cleaning up after him all day.. so, the fun he provided us with this week both has to do with Rosco. He Loves to play with Rosco, follow him around, hit him, and mostly feed him. He feeds Rosco ALL THE TIME... even when he's not supposed to he will sneak away and give him something. The last nice day we had Dave and I were outside and caught him sharing his popcicle with the dog- he'd lick it, then Rosco would lick it... you get the picture :-) Gross... and then....

Ben now knows where we keep the dog treats, and loves to get into the cupboard to get them for Rosco. While I was taking a shower he got into a bag of bones, and by the time I got out the damage was already done. There were bones in both toilets, bones scattered around the bedrooms, in garbage cans and in kitchen cupboards. I guess he was "hiding" them for later use- who knows...all I know is its hard to fish soggy bones out of toilets without getting grossed out- thanks a lot Benny ;-)

On the Emma front:
Emma is really starting to be curious about God/Heaven/Bible stories and things like that. She loves to pray at dinner and tell God stories (as she calls them). So here's a couple tidbits from a kids point of view :-)

A prayer she said a few nights ago at dinner: "God is great, God is good, thank you God for our food, and please help Jesus to be good up there. Amen"

And a "God story" she told me yesterday: "One day there was a big huge storm in the ocean. All the guys were scared. So God gave Jesus big muscles to fix it and save the guys. They were so happy and then Jesus died at Easter to make us feel better. The end" I love it!