OooLaLa

Bella Butterfly

Blue Butterfly

Princesses of course!

All of us girls looking so much more glamorous than usual.

Spider boy Zeke

Jo has been impressing us all with his face painting skills. I know that some people may consider Joy and I a little old for such things, but I think we had as much fun with it as the kiddos did. 

Sweet Visitors

Sweet cousins

We are so happy to have Isabella, Gabrielle, Peter and Joy visiting for a few days! 

Thank you for driving so far to spend time with us.

BUNNY

Breakfast for two

Much to our relief Pepper was acting quite excited about sleeping in her own room, in her new bed. So we decided to go for it and get rid of the pacifiers at the same time. We thought that giving up the pacis might be less challenging if she had something else to replace them with, so we headed to the best toy store around, Inland Octopus. The staff at the store were awesome! Pepper chose a cute stuffed bunny and "traded" her bag of pacis for it. There were a few tears as she headed to the car, but after talking about it a bit, she seemed quite content with Bunny. Her first night without pacis, in her own bed, went surprisingly well. Now I have to admit that I am a little sad to see her growing up so quickly...

New BIG Bed

Since Pepper and the new little one will be sharing a room, we purchased bunk beds. They are cool because they can be set up as bundbeds or as seperate beds. We decided to only set Pepper's bed up for now since baby will be in a crib for a while. Pepper had so much fun helping Daddy put the bed together. We are hoping that she is excited enough about this new bed that she will transition smoothly to her own room.

DAMBAID

Pepper has just recently started to capitalize on the healing power of bandaids. She insists on placing a "DAMBAID" on any "owie", real or perceived. It is amazing how fast she calms down once that dambaid is in place. I wish that they would always work that well to soothe her pain.

Hike Before Good-Bye

After we packed up on Sunday, Sherisa, Broc and Emmarie did a mini hike with us up to the first bridge on the Two Pan trail. It was all up and pregnancy plus walking pneumonia had me breathing a bit hard but it was worth it! I never get tired of the trails in the Wallowas. I just wish we could have made it up high enough to see Eagle Cap. Regardless it was a nice time to visit and it helped us feel a little better about sitting in the car for a few hours heading home.

These last two pictures was our attempt to get a nice mother daughter picture before heading out. We were soon reminded that two year olds, especially past nap time, are not the most cooperative.  Those girls are so funny!

Camp Swing

Much to their delight, my creative husband rigged up a fun little swing for the kiddos. It was quite a hit for all three of the older kids. Lincoln stayed safely in Mommy's lap.