Mother's Day Weekend and More

I have been so behind in my little blog! Life is so busy and I struggle sometimes with my home/work/mom balance, but I suspect that is pretty normal. I am cherishing all of the family time we have had lately.

Sawyer is such an adventurer and really loves to learn. He and Mike have been working on making a nice garden for us this last month and it is pretty adorable seeing him working out there and running things up and down the hill with his giant dump truck. He also loves to tell me about all the bugs, slugs, and snakes he sees knowing that I don't like those kinds of things. I try to make a big show with my reaction just to see his smile and hear his funny laugh. He is the sweetest and coolest 4 year old I know.

Blair is the cutest, chunkiest, sweetest baby girl. She loves being snuggled and loves being loved (the easiest things to do)! Even though I introduced food to her a month ago, she has just now started to be interested. She loves puffs and mum-mums, but maybe only manages to get about 10% of what I give her in her mouth. She loves to try though.

For Mother's Day weekend we didn't have anything planned,  but on the Thursday before Mother's Day our doorbell rang. I answered the door and there was my mom! Total surprise! I loved spending the weekend with her, and the kids did too :) We hung out at home on Thursday and Friday evening, and on Saturday we went to the Woodburn outlets and then Bauman Farms. On Sunday we went to the new REI in town and Riverfront part. 

I am too tired to put these in order, so here are some random pictures from the last month : )

awkward selfie but matching stripes for girls

I made him a sandwich in the shape of a fish, he was thrilled.

I can't handle these shorts

 

or this foot

 

 

6 months and Easter Weekend

On April 16th Blair Victoria turned 6 months old! I can't believe it! She is sweet, adorable, funny, curious, loving, smiley, and she weighs in at 19lbs 7oz! Most nights she sleeps through the night, she has tried baby food and doesn't care for it, she love to sit and play, loves to be held, loves her brother, loves her dad, and is just all around awesome.

I had Good Friday off from work, so we got to have an extra family day. We decided to make a trip to Bauman Farms to get a few more things for our garden. Blair rode in her new big girl seat for the first time.

Sawyer loved smelling the flowers

On Saturday we went to an egg hunt that a local church puts on for free! It was pretty awesome despite our Oregon Spring weather (rain). Free breakfast, games for kids, bouncy houses, balloon animals, egg hunts divided into different age groups, and I'm sure more that I can't remember. When the egg hunt for Sawyer's age group started he ran to the rack that had eggs for the other groups and tried to put those in his basket....thankfully Mike was able to redirect him. Sawyer is so dang funny. We met some friends there so it was nice to chat for a bit while the kids had fun.

After that we picked up this jumperoo for $15! Sawyer was happy to show Blair how to use it, and wanted to get in it himself. 

We also colored eggs! 

My mom The Easter bunny left some baskets for the kids (sorry for Sawyer's lack of pants, I tried)

I love how Blair kept looking at him trying to figure out what the heck was going on

Pierre wanted to share Blair's basket

Her shoes didn't last long, but I loved her outfit

Couldn't get a good picture of them, story of my life. And Sawyer is wearing hiking boots because we we were going to a friends house for an egg hunt, and it rained the previous day. Our weather doesn't allow cute shoes sometimes....

Sawyer and his pal Lucy had a blast looking for eggs

 

 Fun weekend : )