Our Halloween-Trunk or Treat at the church

Here are pictures of our family at the Trunk or Treat at the church. Mason dressed up as Speed Racer and Leah was an Indian.









Here is Mason going through the "Haunted House".



Here is a picture of the kids with their very tired daddy (he worked 160 hours in 2 weeks!). We're glad it is all over with and that he could come and celebrate Halloween with his family.

Leah's Birthday Party

The following pictures were taken at Leah's 7th birthday party at Grandma Camp's house. As you can tell by the picture above, Leah had a very happy birthday.

These are names of family and friends that came to celebrate tonight: Grandma Horrocks and Aunt Abbie, Grandpa Fenimore and Aunt Rachel, Grandma Camp and Art, Grandma Jo, Uncle Carson, Aunt Angela, Sydney and Tyler, Family Friends (Andy, Stephanie, Olivia, Dillan, Kenneth and Ethan, and Mom, Dad and Mason.

Here is Leah, patiently waiting for her party this morning with pin curls in her hair. She was so excited all day long and kept asking, "Is it almost 5:00 yet? Is it almost time for the party?"

Here is a picture of Leah and her good friend Olivia. Leah was so excited that Olivia came tonight!

Mason and Cousin Sydney

Here are they boys (and Sydney) trying to open the door to the chicken coop.

Cupcakes + Uncle Carson

Is Leah ever going to think she is too big to climb on Uncle?

Present time! Thank you everyone!

Sydney and Leah enjoying a Grandma Camp's front yard swing

A very dirty Mason playing in the back of Grandma's truck.


I thought I'd throw a picture of me and Joe in the mix. I usually don't think to ask someone to take a picture of the two of us.

Here we all are before the after party meltdown:)

4th of July Fun

Making the Bathrooms Beautiful

I helped someone paint their house this week to help get it ready to sell and it really put me in the mood to to finish some projects I had been putting off around the house. I thought I'd start by paining our master bathroom (the last room I had to paint in the house). Once I got started, I remembered why I had been putting this painting project off. I had to take down the unattractive (ugly) medicine cabinet and replace it to keep storage space, paint the vanity (it was red) and replace the hardware, and replace the 80's style light fixture. Since I was doing all those things to one bathroom, I figured I'd do the same for the other bathroom so that they'd match. A simple project turned more complicated when things started coming down off of the walls and we discovered that we had major patch work to do on the walls before we could even get started. The painting is pretty much finished now and we are going to install the lights tonight! The bathrooms look beautiful and I am happy to be done!

Here's Joe, sanding away and making the walls beautiful!

Here are Leah and Mason playing with the tape measure. . .anything to keep them out of the project area:)

Hike Around Lacamas Lake

After I finished painting, I took a nap and Joe, Leah and Mason watched a movie. Then, we took off for a hike. It was a perfect day, not to hot and not too cold and overcast. It felt like a lazy day, even our neighborhood activities were toned down today.

These are flowers that Leah picked for me on our hike.

Dinner at Grandma's House

Grandma Horrocks, Elli, Elli K. Crystal, Stan, Joe, Abbie and Lial

Fireworks

Leah and Mason had a lot of fun with the inexpensive fireworks we bought.

Uncle Stan called these 'smokelers' and rightly so.

We never got to hold these when I was little!

Happy Mother's Day!

Wishing you all a happy Mother's Day!

Joe and the kids brought me breakfast in bed this morning and Leah and Mason made me some really cute cards. Joe's present to me is a three month meal plan. He put it together because he saw me admiring Julia's dinner calendar when we were at her home. I am just not that organized, but I wish I was! I am also hoping for a nice message this evening:) Anyways, I am so thankful to be a mother and to have my two beautiful and wonderful children!

Mason's Birthday

Mason had a very fun and exciting birthday! I made the kids a special breakfast this morning and we hung around the house through the afternoon.

At 4:30, we met a friend of ours (Thayne) at his work and Mason and Leah got to have fun on some construction equipment.
(Thank you Thayne for letting us come today! You really made Mason's day:)

First was the bulldozer. Mason got to ride around with Thayne and then Joe got a turn to drive with Mason. I'm not sure who had more fun, Joe or Mason:)
The boys getting out of the bulldozer
Mason and Mom snuggling and trying to stay warm while Leah gets a turn riding in the excavator

Next came the giant excavator. In this video, Mason is inside the excavator with Thayne. He got to help dig in the dirt, splash in a huge puddle and honk the horn about a million times:)

Digging with the Excavator

What fun! Thayne even gave Mason a toy excavator and he couldn't wait to open it.

After riding the construction equipment, we headed home and had a little birthday dinner with Grandma Camp. Then we had cake and Mason opened his presents.
Grandma Camp and Mason waiting for dinner

Mason's face is all messy because I couldn't keep his little fingers away from the cake (chocolate cake with chocolate whipped cream frosting and topped with crushed Oreos (dirt) and a dump truck, fork lift and backhoe).

It took two tries for Mason to blow out the candles:)

Mason got lots of fun presents! This is what he got for his birthday:
Cars Lego building set (Grandma Camp)
A fluffy orange (Mason's favorite color) blanket with a dump truck on it (made by Leah)
A remote control monster truck, transformer (bumble bee) and a car money bank (from Mom and Dad)
Two hats (from Grandpa Fenimore)

Here we all are just before we called it a night. I took of for a yoga class just before bedtime and Joe said the kids were asleep within minutes of being put to bed:)

Happy Birthday Mason!