Easter

This year the Corvallis Easter egg hunt was right during church so we crashed the Philomath Easter Egg hunt since it was on Saturday morning.

The weather was beautiful & the crowd was a much better size then last years Corvallis hunt.

He has recently decided that he likes wearing my stocking cap more than his own.
Such excitement!
He was most impressed with the eggs that had stickers & balloons inside.
Kaden & Nixon comparing their loot.
We were driving through Albany later that day & saw this giant Easter Bunny walking down the sidewalk. Such luck!

Our own precious little bunny!

Seattle with Santa

CATCHING UP

(What we were up to in December)

Kaden & I spent another fun weekend up in Seattle. This time it was for my little cousin Erica's 6th birthday party. The party was a breakfast with Santa at the Marriott. Santa even brought his reindeer for the kids to check out. Very cool!

Erica, the birthday girl (with the pink crown) & her friend Lola getting their balloon animals.

A balloon elf hat!

My aunt Anita, Erica & her friend Ethan. Kaden thinks that Ethan is his coolest friend!

My cousins Anna & Alexis & another friend.
We braved the snowy weather & made it out to Redmond Lights that evening. It is a really fun walk along the river with music & goodies along the way. It ends up at Redmond Center, a fancy outdoor shopping area, all the resturants offer samples out in the courtyard areas, so yummy! Although the weather cooperated that evening it had been snowing all day & alot of the booths & musicians pulled out. We really missed the live nativity with a complete petting zoo this year.


As it warmed up we started to shed some of our layers.
Face painting at Starbucks.




Playing with the Red Robin mascot.

We always have so much fun up there!

Christmas Activities

Cutting down the perfect Christmas tree.

This was our Christmas card shot, it had a caption bubble above Kaden saying "Merry Christmas" & a thought bubble above Wickett saying "I asked for a pork chop!" Too funny. Storybook Land in Albany.

We got some snow at our house.
Mandy moved in next door & we were treated to a visit from Robyn!

Christmas x 3...

We started Christmas with Brad's family at his mom's house.

Kaden & Howard always have fun with Great-Grampa, Papa A.D.

Playing doctor with Grama Betty.

Lots of great toys!

Then we had Brad's Dad come to Christmas at our house.

A great big hug for Papa Bill for the super cool train table!
Then it was off to my folks in Prineville for round 3.

We decided to do homemade gifts for each other this year (with a couple exceptions for Kaden) & unfortunatly I didn't get pics of many of the great things that were created. Here though are a couple.
Love how my sisters dog Dobber got into this shot.

Kaden got his very own fishing rod from Papa 'eve.

Grama Nana made him a heating pad froggy to keep him toasty at night! I'm not sure how good of an idea it is to teach him to put frogs in the microwave!
Uncle Dave trying to burn the house down with his demonstration of how to use the flint stone in the survival packs he made. Very creative!
Bathtime fun with Grama Nana

Beach House Thanksgiving

MORE CATCHING UP

We enjoyed a couple of Thanksgivings this year. We spent the first one at the coast with Brad's siblings & their families. We stayed at my aunt & uncle's beach house in Newport, it was fabulous!

Playing on the beach.

Gotta love those blustery winter coast days!

Not very pleased with the foam sticking to his boots.

This was the beach access from the backyard of the house. Slippery, steep & windy! Brad took Kaden & Wickett out ahead of me while I was gathering hats & mittens, and when I got out there all three of them were already on the beach! Brad carried them down one under each arm. Now according to my math that leaves no arms to hold onto the railing!

I'm so glad I didn't see it happen.

I heard that one of the bigger winter storms since that weekend really did a number on the stairs & they are pretty mangled now.

The spread, compliments of Brad.
Brad's brother Bryan & his wife Jenna.
Brad's sister Brandy, her husband Josh & their boys Howard & Charlie.
Spoiled Wickett!


Kaden slept through dinner so he had his own seating for one.

My sister Brittnee & her husband Dave came over to enjoy part of the weekend.
The view from the house was fantastic!