Spring happenings

Aunt Heidi, Uncle Andy and Elias came to visit :)

Luke makes an "Intestinal Neck Tie" in his Human Body class. I love it!

Easter Egg Hunt in Aunt Carinn's neighborhood.

The cousins....Joel with the "need to go to the bathroom" pose.

Carinn and Brady bug

Trying to get Brady to stand next to the Easter Bunny for a picture.

Zack's first Easter Egg Hunt.

The cousins hunted out LOTS of candy!

Grandma Pentecost has a birthday.

4 generations!

Zack falls in love with ketchup....and makes lots of messes with it! We realize it can't be left unattended!

Great picture I had to add

Dayna's house for dinner.....who's kid's are these anyways?

Walla Walla Trip....the weird things you can do while home schooling.

John needed a quick Dr's check on a rib that had been really bothering him, so we set out for the Walla Walla VA.

First thing we did was drop him at the VA, then I realized, what the heck?! I have 5 kids with me, home school work for them to do, a fussy stinky baby, a stinky 2 yr old and a hot cramped van! Why did I come? So, we found the parade field to get the wiggles out.

John Wainwright Memorial....notice the kids wrestling in the back. That's really all they did out there!

Except for Chloe who really only likes to "try" wrestling for about 2 minutes.

Love this picture! ha!

Zach, bossing someone around probably. He's actually probably yelling, "Top Dowl' (Stop Joel).

The fearless leader....ok, maybe not fearless. I was starting to wonder how long I would be there.

Really though, it didn't take nearly as long as I had feared, and then we stopped at McDonald's, changed into our running clothes and went running on a terrific trail, by a stream, at Walla Walla college. It was so much fun. We decided we would pack the bikes and scooter and run on road trips from here on out!

The college post-run. Luke doing his Spider-man thing.

Eva....who had the best ride of all!

Then we stopped down town for ice cream (a must in Walla Walla), and got some coffee and drove around looking at old houses (a must for weirdos like me in Walla Walla).

Steven's Birthday!

Cousin Party!

Steve who was turning 25, and Carinn.

*I think Becky was putting little Thomas to sleep.

Keith holding Eva

Grandpa and Zach

Grandpa and Brady :)

Good times and yummy ice cream! Hopefully Steve and Becky will get to move here in the future!

Our Life Mid-April 2011

I can't really believe it's almost the end of April! Oh my. We were supposed to have the kitchen completely finished up by the begining! I guess cuboard stripping needs to be done in 70 degree weather, so that put a holt of some of it. Besides that...hm school, ministry stuff, doing good at keeping the house clean (which takes CONSTANT) effort!), cooking, yard work has started, we've taken 2 west side trips...ect!

Date night! Progressive date night! Started with deep fried pickles at McGills, then to The Kind and I, for green curry, then to Six Degrees for deep friend snickers. I actually think the green curry was the best. I guess I'm not huge on deep-fried stuff.  It was really nice to get out. We even left Eva with mom and dad.

Admission: I wear this hat about 2 x's/wk! I know that's horrible to admit. When you are this busy, you can barely even plan time to get your hair done, so if you don't have the time to put in to really fix it decently, it just looks better to cover it up!

Yard work has begun! We kicked it off with a "yard weekend" last weekend. Luckily the weather was beautiful. Cousin Brady and our neighbor Dominic came over to play too. It was a fun day in the new, nice weather!

Is this the cutest face ever?!

Zach turns 2!

Zach......the spunky 2 yr old!

*I'm trying to remember what we had for dinner that night....all over his face.

He didn't really "get" that it was his birthday. But the older kids let him know about it ALL DAY!!! Joel even insisted that he go to the $1 store and buy Zach a present.....so cute! So Luke, Joel and John went and bought Zach a package of whiffle balls from the dollar store. See...kid's don't need to be spoiled.

We had ice cream bars and a nice dinner and sang Happy Birthday :)

Zach can say all sorts of words. He's starting to say 3 word sentances. He is our most observant child, and also the most destructive. Funny that he is destructive and makes crazy messes, but is the cleanest of all the kids. He constantly is shutting drawers and picking things up. We'll even find him with wet whipes washing the floor. He still likes to be a "puppy" and tries to make Eva laugh multiple times/day by dancing around and screaming like a maniac! We've found him singing Happy Birthday and the ABC song, but when asked to sing it, he will only reply, "stop"! He loves balls, trucks, water and dirt. Just like any good little boy should. We love him to pieces.

Eva enjoyed the broccoli instead of ice cream. Whacha don't know won't hurt you I guess!

Early April Random Pics

As the previous post showed, we made it to Seattle a couple weekends ago. My mom had booked a hotel for a Dr's apt and then wasn't going to be using it, and couldn't back out, so we gladly took her hotel room :)

The kids seriously relish hotel rooms. John and I think they're sort of boring and would rather see the area we're visiting, but the kids will constantly ask, "when are we going to get to the hotel room"! Of course, keep in mind that we camp 95% of the time.

I supposed there is cable, contentetal breakfast, and this hotel had a swimming pool and hot tub! I suppose I can see why they like it so much!

Zach finally went to sleep after running around the room like a tornado for awhile. We all had to laugh at how he finally went to sleep.

John, the kids and I watched a movie.

Eva Jean in her April church attire.

I think she is the cutest thing!

I know it sort of looks like I have a mullet in this picture. I assure you my hair is falling out of a ponytail.