Our Spring and Summer

Easter

Playing in Grandma-n-Grandpa's Backyard

Hiking Tubbs Hill

The Hiawatha Trail: A really long bike trail made from old train tracks. It was beautiful with really tall, really long suspension bridges and pitch-black tunnels—some as long as 1.6 miles. WAY too long for kids. Try 7 hours in the heat and nowhere for a nap.

Jensen Family Reunion. We had a Johnson reunion too but I don't have those pictures yet. Another day...

Aunt Kris. She died in a car accident after the reunion. She will be terribly missed.

Christian's 4^th Birthday

I made the mistake of giving Christian this toy before his birthday and he wanted to play with this the whole time. He was afraid to eat his cake because someone might take his new rocket toy.

Jesh and I made the cake with some help from Rachel. Turned out pretty good.

Mandy did an awesome job decorating the party. I left it up for a couple days because I liked it so much. We all want to be "cosmonauts" now.

Look out! No one was safe in the back yard.

Oregon Trip! Yay! We rented a house on the coast with my sister Becky and her family. It was seriously so fun!

Such a long car ride. We got to visit our friends Ethan and Carol on our way. It was awesome to see them again—it's been over two years. Bummer, I didn't get pictures. The following photos are out of order.

Multnomah Falls

Seals near the house we stayed at. There were at least 50.

The beach-house backyard. The kids loved it!!!

A really neat pebble beach. When the waves come in and out you can hear thousands of rocks tinkling around. Very serene.

A lovely lighthouse with only a GAZILLION pestering flies. At least 20 would swarm around me constantly. Sorry, no photos of that awful scene.

A very long flight to the top of the light house.

We played a lot in the water on the last day. If you look closely behind us you can see the heads of seals in the water. We were at times very close to them—a bit frightening. Under their fins they have sharp claws you know.

Sandy Face

We visited an aquarium.

Brandon at the Devil's Punchbowl. Jesh took this picture. He's soooo proud.

We visited quite a few tide pools and saw some interesting critters, including Spongebob and Patrick. Tip: Don't step on the mussel beds unless you want to get sprayed with icky spit.

Carson and Christian had soooo much fun together.

Seal on a rock at... Seal Rock.

Kite flying on the beach. To this day, Christian says something about wanting to go kite-flying at the beach in each of his prayers. That or to visit his "new" house (the beach house).

Jesh working while on our trip.

The view from our back porch. I saw a man swimming once from this view at 7am—pretty brave for that early. Then I realized he was nude! No wonder he was out so early.

The summer went by too fast, but we enjoyed it!

Productive

I cleaned both bathrooms, cleaned the kitchen including wipe of all the cabinets and refrigerator, washed all 6 loads of laundry and folded it, vacuumed the house, mopped the floors, cleaned the kids room, and my room, mowed the lawn, fixed the dresser drawer which included going to Lowes to buy parts, a drill and screw gun, and fixed Christians bed, and a toy. I think that was the most productive day I have ever had. But then I slept in until like 11 today. So does that cancel out my productive day?