Easter!

We had a very fun Easter

and here are the pictures to prove it!

Happy Birthday Max!

Can you believe we've gone from this....

...to this already?

Max is such a good and smart boy, I guess I can believe he's five but what I can't believe is that I'm five years older than when I had that little chubby bundle!

He woke up the morning of his birthday and the VERY first thing he said was, "Mommy, can I open my presents now?"

We let him open one and then opened the rest after breakfast.

Then in the afternoon, we took off for some birthday camping at Warm Springs! We set up our new tent, built a fire, roasted hotdogs, smores and starbursts and even went swimming in the warm spring pool! It was actually lots of fun, the kids all slept great (Neil, not so great) and we survived well enough that we think we'll do it again soon!

Neil and I took Max out to dinner, just the three of us, the next night. We went to an asian bistro where we sat at the hibachi/tepanyaki table and got to watch the chef cook right in front of us, we ate sushi and Max was able to order his "favorite chicken" (sesame chicken). Gotta love restaurants that do it all!

We just finished the birthday festivities off last night with a little party and a few friends at home!

Happy Birthday Max, we love you!

Stay tuned....I've got Easter and County Fair catch up to do!

Father/Son, Mother/Daughter

Last week, Neil and Max took a trip to Spokane all by themselves. As you can see, Max had a great time!

Here at home, the girls and I had a pretty good time too. Who doesn't love to eat ice cream wearing only a bib and sunglasses?

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Well, we don't really do anything to celebrate St. Patrick's Day...I even sent Max to school in nothing green at all!

But we hope you all have a nice holiday!

Here are some of our recent pictures.

We went up to Red Rock again, this time with our good friends the Salos. We ventured on a one mile hike/rock climb up to this waterfall. It was lots of fun and the kids did pretty good, unfortunately when we went to take this picture there was boy with his little dog that came right by us and completely distracted the girls. Oh well.

Max and Lucas with their pencil light sabers.

Ellie, Payton, Max. Lucas and Kate.

These two pictures were taken a few weeks ago. Neil and Max went with our friend, Gin, to the Nascar time trials and so I took the girls to check out Seigfried and Roy's Secret Garden. The girls LOVED the dolphins, they enjoyed looking at the animals too but not near as much as Max loved the zoo at that age. He could sit and watch a giraffe stand and do nothing forever, but after about 3o seconds in front of an animal the girls would say "all done" and be ready to move on. We had a good time though.

McKee Ranch

So who would have thought that there would be this little ranch with animals and everything right in the middle of Las Vegas behind a big casino?!? This was actually almost a month ago, but I had to post this picture! The kids had fun "driving" this old wagon.

Max was very leery of the big horses and didn't want to get too close. I made him take this picture but he couldn't look at the camera because he would have had to take his eyes off the horse! Needless to say, Max was unable to feed the big horses.

But he did muster the courage to feed this little guy!