Easter Sunday

Our Easter Sunday began with a little egg hunt for Tessa. We use to do this on Saturday but I guess we are getting old and lazy!

As always the Easter Bunny had fun winding string throughout the house and leaving treats!

The treats the Easter Bunny leaves are a little different these days - it use to just be candy but now he leaves headbands, scarves and even Rascal Flatts CD's!

The Easter Bunny even brought me a present this year - a new GlassyBaby! I even had my own string to follow!

We had a nice Easter Service with lots of beautiful music. Our friend Paula Reeve sung which is always amazing and her husband, a good friend of Jim's spoke.

After church we took a few pictures before heading over to the Jensen's for dinner. My part of dinner was orange rolls, asparagus, lemon sour cream pie and baked pineapple. We had a yummy dinner, good conversation with friends and then some fun games afterwards.

What is it with my kid's and their goofy faces!

Even Jim had to get in on the goofy face thing!

Happy Easter!

Friday Fun

There was no school on Friday.

Tessa started her day off school by going to school - to take the PSAT.

I did a session at the temple and Jim worked.

Friday was a rain free day here in Portland so we decided to take advantage of it in the afternoon and went for a hike in Forest Park. A friend had emailed that the trillium were blooming.

Trillium bloom for a very short time so you have to act quick. We had a nice hike and saw lots of pretty trillum blooming.

After our hike we decided to head across the river to the Hawthorne District to try out a new restaurant I had read about in the paper. Pour Que No - a local taco place.

The restaurant was FULL of character and fun. We called our friends the Watt's who don't live too far from the restaurant and they joined us for some yummy tacos and good conversation. Tessa tagged along too.

Our friend Merrill, who lived in Mexico for a while, said he felt like he was in Mexico -I wish I had taken my camera because the place looked like it was in Mexico too! The building is bright turquoise blue and everything inside is reused, recycled. They even compost their food scraps!

After dinner we went over to their house so the boys could watch the Blazer game on their big screen TV. The girls went out for gelato - yum!!

This last week was a productive, catch up week. I got quite a few projects done including "slurping" our family blog into a book and getting it printed and getting all of 2008 photos into an album!! And I started a few new projects too!

I made a cute little keepsake foldout album for girls using my parent's wedding pictures. A nice little remembrance for them of their grandparents 50th wedding anniversary - especially since Cali didn't get to attend. Only made them for the girls - didn't think the boys would be interested but if you want one boys - let me know!

The college kids are busy, busy with end of the year projects, papers and upcoming finals. They all sounded a little stressed with everything they had to do.

In addition to school and work this week Logan had hours and hours of Young Ambassador auditions too.

Cali had her end of the year voice recital. She sang a duet with another girl, a song from Wicked. Of course she looked darling and Logan said she did a great job - wish we had been there to hear her!!

Texas - 50th Annivesary

Here is my last update from our Texas trip.

Sunday morning we went to church with the Scholl's. That evening we celebrated mom and dad's 50th Anniversary.

Karen went all out and set a beautiful table complete with pictures of the newlyweds!

Danger - Young girls with fire!!

We had a yummy dinner from a local Italian restaurant.

Here's the kids table - Drew and Rachel had to sit at the kid's table!

After dinner we watched a DVD Rich had put together of pictures of mom and dad growing up and the married years. Cali, Logan and Clark had sent video too as well as lots of nice notes from many of their friends.

Of course there were some photo opps afterwards too!

The kids...

The grandkids.....