Too Much Fun Lately

That’s right, we’ve been having so much fun lately that blogging about it has been the last thing on my mind. Here is a quick month by month of exciting (or just funny) events.

January

Claire has become quite the little culinary artist. Levi said this happened in a matter of minutes (I’m pretty sure he always says  that lol). She got the eggs out (a brand new 18 count carton of course) and cracked about half of them mostly into a container. Levi discovered this and asked what she was doing and she replied, “I’m c-oh-king eggs!” Duh dad! So they cooked them up and ate them. A couple days later we found an un-cracked egg in a container in the drawer, that could have gotten ugly real quick.

 

February

We finally took our anniversary getaway (hey, 3 months late isn’t bad). With Levi’s schedule of reserve academy just about every Saturday we finally managed to squeeze it in. We went down to North Bend/Coos Bay which is somewhere neither of us had been since we were kids. It was fun discovering a new town, eating the most amazing seafood of our entire lives and just spending time together as a couple. It felt weird to not be toting a diaper bag (or a “diapy change bag” as Claire likes to call it) and our little monkey around. The house we stayed at had the most amazing view of the bay. And although it was cold it didn’t rain on us, thank goodness.

Big thank you to Grandma Janet and Uncle Hayden for holding down the fort here, Clairee had a blast!

Sad news, my brother Eric was deployed to Afghanistan. I’m so grateful that he’s been in relatively safe places the whole time. Not a day goes by that we don’t think about him and pray for his safety. But on a happier note, we also found out right before he left that him and his sweet wife are expecting a baby. The baby boy is due around the same time that he gets home, end of September/beginning of October. My older brother and his wife are pregnant with a girl (due in July), I’m so excited to meet my new niece and nephew! But geez talk about peer pressure! ;)

 

March

We finally had enough snow for Claire to make her very first snow man with just a tiny bit of help from Dad. She was so proud of it. She loved eating the snow and making snow angels. We were all kind of sad to see it melt. Little did we know it would snow a couple times in March, such crazy weather.

 

April

I’m pretty sure that every holiday just becomes more fun the older Claire gets. We had a wonderful Easter. Claire was so excited about her piggy bank, anytime she finds money she runs and puts it in her bank. We went and took some family pictures at the capitol building, it is soo beautiful that time of year. She was awesome at coloring eggs and we also took a walk to go see the ducks. What a fantastic day!

We met Grandma Debi at the zoo bright and early at 9 AM. We didn’t realize until after we were there that it was Packy’s birthday celebration so everybody, and their brother’s, and their cousin’s were there. But a great time was still had by all.

  On one of Levi’s free Saturdays, we went down to Roseburg/Winston to go to the Wildlife Safari. I went when I was little but Levi and Claire had never been. It was so neat to see the animals so close up and from the comfort of our car. This emu (or maybe ostrich) was so funny!  It gave us the stare down for a good 5 minutes. All of the animals must be loosing their winter fur, this guy included because he had a crazy ‘do. He kept squawking at us, and boy, Claire was just thoroughly fascinated.

We stayed at a hotel with a pool and that kid did not want to get out. We went swimming 3 times in less than 24 hours and it was meltdown city the minute we said we needed to leave. I was having a swimsuit malfunction so no pictures will be posted, it was a bad one, so bad in fact that I threw my swimsuit in the hotel garbage.

We also discovered a new hobby on our way home, Geocaching. Basically it’s an Easter egg hunt for adults, minus the eggs and frilly dresses. There’s an app that will tell you were the nearest one is. Then when you get near it you have to start hunting around and the two we found were pretty darn hard to find. We’ve decided this is a great activity for each member of our family, Claire because she loves being outside and doesn’t care what we’re doing, Levi because he loves technology and me because I’m good at finding things. Hopefully we’ll be able to do this a little more as Levi’s schedule opens up a bit.

And last but not least, the day came when this happened: 

Again, it happened in just a couple unsupervised minutes, we’re not even sure where she found these scissors. When I got home from work I scoured her head and could not figure out where this good-sized chunk came from. Apparently she’s really good at blending, who knows, maybe she’ll be a hair stylist?

Coming up-Levi graduates from reserve academy (the volunteer police position) next week, I could not be more excited! His schedule will be a little more flexible. And he’s super excited since he’ll be able to drive the police car now. I’ll post pics next week.