Spring Break at Black Butte

Our favorite spot, Paulina Springs! Someone always falls in when we are here. This time it was Max. He did not care. It is so much fun to jump the rocks he just can't resist. It was a cold spring break with snow but we had a great time. Mikey, Max, Lauren and I hiked all the way around scout lake. The highlight of the week was a cleansing trip to the tree swing where Jeff almost died last summer. We all needed to see it again and just be grateful for Jeff. He carved his name into the tree that he hit with his head. It is his tree! Even Harrison remembered the scary event. We put it in the past!

We love our Jeffy!

Wicked!

Love my headband!

Julia and I were able to go to Wicked one more time. We loved it and had a wonderful time with each other. I think it is official, Julia is prettier than I am! She has grow up to be such an amazing girl. She has a 4.0 GPA in middle school which she works really hard at maintaining. She also won a scholarship for outdoor school. We are so proud of her.

The wizard will see you now!

Goodbye Farris Family!

We had to say goodbye to our friends the Farris family. Koye was Harrison's first best friend. They played action figures together all the time. We all loved Koye and Maddi and were so sad when they moved back to Arizona. We will miss them!

Where is your gum?

This is what Mike pulled out of Harrison's nose. We were all asleep and Harrison came into our bed and said, "I have some gum in my nose." I told him to be quiet and go to bed. Nice parenting! Mike turned on the light and looked up his nose and sure enough there was a blue something in there. Mike freaked out and got the tweezers and performed surgery on his nose. Finally we pulled out a HUGE piece of gum that was lodged very far up his nose. What a strange child. Good thing for tweezers and overprotective fathers!

asleep?

What kind of a kid can fall asleep in the bath tub? He is always functioning at 100%. We have not ever seen a child fall asleep in the bath so we needed to document it. Harrison is our first for so many things. This is the kids who put gum in his nose!

Mental Health day

I believe strongly in mental health days. Every once in a while I will just clear the schedule to get out of town and go to a wonderful place to improve our mental health. We often go to the beach because it is only 90 minutes away and a good day at the beach has healing powers. However, on this day we decided to go to Silver Falls. I know the kids think I am crazy whenever we head off on a mental health day, but they all love it. We hiked 4 miles and even Harrison made it without help. We passed 4 beautiful waterfalls. Mike was sure one of us was going to fall so he was not any fun. Who says you can't hike in the rain?

Max and I looking for flowers!

Crazy man!