Day 1--Disneyland!!!

We got up early enough and had our "Continental Breakfast" which was halfway decent as far as those things go...brushed our teeth, got in the Nevada car, and sped down to Disneyland. We were so excited to show Grandma everything...

(Most photos from Miles, unless he is in them)

Weather was perfect, not hot, sunny and cloudy, Spring is well underway, here.

We were greeted by the Disneyland Marching Band...
Lines were not long at all, we went right in. (Our cashier grew up in Seattle and went to Middle School where Miles will go next year, go figure)
The first thing we had to do was take Caroline on Indiana Jones, she was a millimeter too short last time we were here, and never believed Miles when he said it wasn't all that great--too bumpy. Miles and Grandma opted for the Jungle Cruise next door.
It never changes...

They still shoot the hippo at the end...and tell corny jokes.

We then tortured Grandma, and took her on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. She laughed and yelled the whole time and said she had now experienced enough roller coaster to last the rest of her life. She did manage to take photos while on it, though, I cannot figure out how:

We really wanted to take Grandma on Storybook Land boats. It is so cute and sweet and the landscaping is really nice. You still have to enter through the mouth of the whale.

..nice picture of the teeth!
Cute little houses...they have been trimming all these bonsai since the 50s.
Miles had us take his camera on Autotopia....We tried to get a photo of ourselves. I let Caroline drive. I hope she gets better at steering by the time she is 16.
There we all are, waiting in the very short line. (All lines were totally manageable..)

Miles likes to take photos of the trees.
Nice shot of the castle...
We caught a parade on our first day. We knew Grandma would love it. This is Alice's table.
Mickey and Minnie:
Caroline was disappointed that Ariel wasn't on her float, she must have phoned in sick.

Miles set his camera to "fireworks", and took a bunch of photos--they turned out pretty awesome!! But not like fireworks.
Grandma actually got this great shot of the day:

Disneyland! Travel Day

Well, a couple of weeks ago, we noticed that the kids and I have the same Spring Break. We thought we should take advantage of it, and take a trip! Disneyland seemed like an excellent destination, but it turned out that Nick had to work, so we invited our other favorite traveling companion, my mom, AKA Grandma in California. She loves parades and county fairs, so she was totally game. The plans all shaped up, and we head to the airport on Sunday morning.

(all photos are from Miles, notice what a great photographer he is)

Miles took some photos while we were waiting, check out the airplane out the window, he said he didn't even know it was flying by!

With all the stress of getting our passports last summer, we are using the heck out of them. We board the plane...


Review the safety guidelines...
Observe the airport...
Take off!!!
We passed the time, watching a movie, reading, doing a crossword...
looking out the window....
Anaheim!! We find Grandma waiting right away,


We get a sweet car...Chevy Impala...
With Nevada plates!!
Get to the hotel...

Check in...
oooo, a pool, so nice. Room is great, not a lot of room to walk around, but we don't plan on spending a whole lot of time there, so no biggie.

I love Spring?

This video was taken last Friday, March 28.




Snow on my cherry tree? Seriously, winter needs to end.

Same day....



That poor daffodil ended up like this:
It bounced back after it melted the next day.

"Coldest last week of March" in the last zillion years. Good grief.

Easter

Easter was very fun. In the morning, we went up to my sister's house for brunch and an egg hunt. It was POURING down rain, so we hid the eggs inside. I was apparently channeling Mom, and found all the funny places to put eggs in Michelle's house. Here I am hiding the eggs.

Nora, Owen and Caroline, finding some eggs.
Nora, Miles and Caroline pose for me. Stefan is in the background, he is hard to capture on film these days.
Caroline found all the pink eggs.
In the afternoon, we went up to Grandma Meredith's for dinner. The Easter Bunny left the kids an amazing bubble gun with fan-action.

The bubbles were that kind of bubble that don't pop when they land, and the whole lawn was covered!




It had actually stopped raining for a while, and there was a rainbow, hail, super dark clouds and CRAZY wind. We are having a very weird Spring.

Craft Day at Chick P's house

So it would seem we have done almost nothing of interest lately, seems we have taken very few photos, hopefully that will pick up soon.

Last weekend, we crafting Superheros got together for a Crafting Event at Peggy's house. I got no photo of myself crafting, although I did finish knitting a scarf and do some needlework. Peggy cooked us some amazing tacos, Geni hemmed her curtains, Kristina made an adorable hoodie,

and Beth organized her jewelry and bead box.


Peggy also showed us her amazing jumping cat, Verne!!


That cat was amazing!

Cort + Kia

On this brilliant February day, Kristina and I packed up the kids in the Batmobile, and headed across the Sound to Sequim, for Cort and Kia's wedding reception.

Here we are on the ferry:



It was a full on reunion of U of O folks, with a few of us extras thrown in. Here are Kristina and Max, out on the deck.
















Peter, in his fancy schmancy sport coat, and Robin, they may or may not be getting married, they were rather evasive about being asked directly......







Here is Peter in his natural habitat at a wedding, dancing with the kids....That is Caroline, Dylan, Avery and Asher doing his down-dog.




Caroline and the shorter ones with the bubbles. Fathead is in the background.


















Asher in his excellent sweater vest.

























Kristina and Avery enjoy the fantastic meal...






Cort and Kia, could not be more adorable.













Paul Heinz and his Pugaranium. You could tell it was part pug because when he got it out of the car, it immediately ran in circles, barking.







Max, Olivia, Frank and Kristina.









Two of us looking fabulous.

















Miles, boogy-ing. The band, Zasu, was great, as usual....


Paul Heinz giving a VERY inspired toast....
Kia thanking everyone:














Frank, and his sleeping daughter, and M. C. Gowen, that funny guy. It sure was great to see everyone again. Beautiful wedding, fun friends, gorgeous weather. Perfect.

This made me laugh today

If you haven't seen this, watch this one first:

This is pretty funny:


Now this one: