Time for a change

I took advantage of a visit from Jill to cut off Megyn's hair. It was getting pretty long, but looked uneven to me. It's shorter than I had originally intended it to be, but I think she looks darling. Most important - she loves it!

Just Because...

On Friday my sweetie walked into the house in the middle of the day carrying these beauties...and made my whole day. No special occasion or particular reason. Just because he was thinking about me. Thank you Ryan!

Our Summer Vacation (picture overload)!!!!

I haven't blogged for so long! Our summer has been super busy, and I have other pictures from all of the fun stuff we have done but I thought I would start with our vacation. We travelled to Salem, Oregon first and stayed with my brother & sister-in-law for a couple of days. It was lots of fun. The day after we got there we drove to Lincoln City so the kids could see the ocean. They loved it! These pictures are from Taft Beach.

Splashing in the waves. Both Zach & Meg got knocked down by the waves. Zach, of course, thought it was great. Meg not so much.

The kids with Uncle Garon & Aunt Kati.

I love this picture of my sweetie.

The next day Garon took us on a tour of the police station. The boys thought the motorcycles were so cool!

We also went hiking at Silver Falls the same day. This was beautiful!

We then travelled to Kennewick, Washington to visit Ryan's parents. Grandma and Aunt Jill had a surprise for Megyn - pink birthday balloons & chocolate cake! Happy Birthday Meg!

The day after we got to Washington we travelled to Seattle. We had to make a trip to the space needle.

We ate at a restaurant that had huge chocolate chip cookies.

We ended the day at a Mariner's game. I thought this sculpture was kinda cool. It looked like it was made of glass bats.

We had great seats. The Mariners were playing the White Sox. They lost 1 - 0. Not the most exciting game. In fact, the most exciting part of the game was when a kid jumped over the wall and started running all over the field trying to avoid security. They caught him and hauled him away in handcuffs.

We spent one more day in Seattle. We went shopping and went on a harbor cruise, but I forgot to charge the battery in my camera so I didn't get any pictures from day two. These pictures are back in Kennewick. We went boating with Ryan's aunt & uncle and some of their family. It was so much fun. Rece was really brave. He went on a tube pulled behind the boat three different times! He didn't fall off once. I was impressed. I wouldn't let Zach go on the tube, although he wanted to. But he and Megyn went out on the boat a lot. Megyn would cry if she got left behind. I didn't get any pictures of Rece riding the tube because I was too busy trying to keep Zach and Meg in the boat!

On our last full day in Kennewick we went to the boat races on the Columbia River. They also had an air show.

It was kind of slow between races, so some of us played in the river.

Some of us just tried to stay cool.

Some of us caught some zzzz's.

And some of us played dress up.

Grandma Jensen and the little girls.

We are ready for another great vacation - thanks everyone!

The Graduate

At the end of May Zach "graduated" from preschool. They did a program for the parents that went through all of the things they had learned throughout the year. Zach had a great teacher, and he made a lot of progress throughout the year. He really liked his teacher, Mrs. Dance, and he made a lot of friends.

What a face!

Zach with Mrs. Dance.

I had such a great time experiencing this with Zach!

The Hunt

On Easter we went to my parent's house for dinner and an egg hunt. Someone forgot to bring the baskets so we had to improvise, but I don't think the kids minded too much.

And they're off!