Tulip Fest

This weekend was beautiful and very fun filled for the whole family!

We started off with the Tulip Fest on Saturday. The festival was filled with gorgeous flowers, tractors and play things.

Gunnar's favorite was the hay slide tent. A genius idea of combining bales of hay with plastic drainage tubes for the kids to climb and slide on. Kind of like a kid sized hamster activity tank! Here is my favorite action shot:

And then the tractors. Are you sensing a theme on the blog yet?
These steam tractors were amazing:



And of course the John Deere:

And then to prove we really were in the middle of a million tulips:



On Sunday the beautiful weather continued so Nick and I headed up to Meadows for some spring skiing. It was so much fun and everyone was going crazy with the first spring weather - bikinis and bbq in the parking lot! I got one good pic on my phone that I will have to try and upload.

Today I took the day off so G and I hit the town. Grocery shopping, birthday present shopping and trips to both local parks before hitting Chella's birthday party. Needless to say G was quick to bed tonight.

Tractor Time!

It was a whirlwind week with me and little man holding down the fort while Nick was in Seattle visiting his family. The weather was gross on the two days I took off so we had to stick close but it was an absolutely beautiful weekend. G and I made it to the tractor show and had wonderful time. Complete toddler meltdown when we had to leave to go get Papa from the train station so you know it was true.

We started off slow with the balloon animal guy. G picked a blue dog:


Then the main attractions.
At tractor just his size:

Can you tell he is right at home on the big machines. This is how you make them go:



We also found time to visit the feed store cat, the chicks, turkeys, goat? and bunnies in the livestock shack. So much fun!

Grandma and Grandpa London are visiting for a while so I am sure we will have many more adventures in the following weeks!

Fun

A couple parting shots...

Yep, it rocks when your papa is an artist:

Man at work!

Easter Extravaganza

Since Gunnar is a big boy we were able to really celebrate Easter this weekend. And boy we went all out.

Friday at daycare they had an egg hunt for the kids. Nick and G arrived in their usual leisurely fashion just as it was about to begin. Nick had to quickly toss his eggs into the mix so and then he got to help G hunt. Very fun and we got an egg filled with Play doh. Yay!

On Saturday we went to the Resort on the Mountain for their annual egg hunt. There were tons of people and eggs. Since he already had one hunt under his belt Gunnar did very well.


I think my favorite part of the hunt was all the picture taking (myself included obviously). In the age of the smart phone it was ridiculous how much coaxing and phone pic taking was going on.

After the hunt we wandered around and of course had to do some time with the Easter bunny. Gunnar was not about to get close!
The struggle:

The good as it gets pic:

Today Gunnar and I headed to church. He looked dashing in his Easter outfit. It was his first time to go to church and he was not a big fan of being left in nursery. But we both survived.

Last but not least, this afternoon we had lunch with our neighbors and friends across the street. The weather was so beautiful we all sat outside and snacked through an entire turkey and ham. And of course there was yet another Easter basket for G!

Food and Friends

We spend a lot of time in the kitchen. Cooking, cleaning, rinse and repeat. Gunnar is an excellent assistant!

A couple weeks ago G's friend was over while we finished up knishes for diner. Both kiddos had a great time with the dough. Of course my picky eater couldn't keep the dough out of his mouth. Sandwich, no. Dirt, yes. Ugh that kid!

The bakers:


Here is G and me making up some biscuits this last weekend. He is an excellent roller:

Spring?!

I alluded to our late spring last posts. Well, March has really take the cake! Mt Hood got 10 feet of fresh powder last week. Crazy! After managing to make the commute to PDX all winter, I finally had to turn back and work from home. In MARCH!

All that sow did lend itself to some great play time though.
Shovel sled:


Papa dusted off his cross country skis:

Under Construction

Oregon is again being stingy with her Spring so we are still battling the cooped up blues. Lately our indoor passion has been building.

Nick and I broke out our generic Jenga last weekend and Gunnar had a blast. Of course with such a handy papa how could it not be fun:



Then this week we got a set of XL building blocks from Grandma Darnelle. They too have been a hit:


Of course his favorite thing is to knock them all down as you start to build something! We did come up with setting them up and then having his excavator run into them and knock them all down.

FUN!

Hope you all in the rest of the country are enjoying your warm days. We will be sure to send you some of our snow! Actually, never mind as we don't want you hot humid summers.