‘and he thinks we’re just fishing!

Saturday morning daddy and Owen had a great time fishing at a really good friend’s pond.

Check out this awesome 2 1/2 pound bass that Owen caught all by himself! (The only thing dad did was help pull it up onto the shore)

Don’t worry Oliver I am sure daddy will take you fishing next year when you’re a little bit older.

“I’ve never filleted a fish before!”

Owen said on the way home, “Dad! This fish is big enough to feed the whole family!” Thanks Owen for a wonderful dinner Sunday night. The fish was delicious fried up dipped in egg wash and panko bread crumbs, yummy!

Spring break, Easter time 2013 & Oliver’s 3rd birthday

Okay I know you are all thinking Halloween in April, come on Sara! I am still trying to catch up, but fortunately I am putting more recent stuff down as well.

During spring break we went to Science Works. Oliver loves to hang out in the bubble room. He especially loves the bubble maker that forms a bubble all around you. But he kept standing too close to the edge and kept popping the bubble with his bubble booty! 

He is pretty good at making bubbles. Look at that giant one!

Owen, Oliver and Nicholas posing for a few pictures. 

Owen is being silly as always!

Easter Egg hunt at Genevieve’s annual Easter party. It was raining when we arrived at first but luckily it stopped just in time for the egg hunt.

Oliver is always generous and offers me some of his candy. (Probably because it had some weird filling or something). I probably ended up eating half his candy since he didn’t like a lot of it.

I wasn’t joking when I said Oliver is generous. He is always concerned about other people. He is also very polite and says please, thank you and I love you a lot!

Oliver clapping after he got a bean bag in the hole at his birthday party. Daddy painted the cross bones on the boards the night before the party. Yeah Daddy and Oliver!

Oliver is very excited as he waits next to Graham and his family for his turn at the pirate piñata.

Deven was in command of the piñata.

Oliver taking a swing at the pirate hat. “Ahrrr!!!  There be treasure in that pirate hat.” (We filled it with golden peanut butter cups, a favorite of Oliver’s and gold chocolate coins).

Owen was laughing a lot here because dad was jerking up the piñata every time he tried to hit it.

The cake didn’t exactly go with the pirate theme, but we love Costco cake so why not.

Oliver blowing out his 3 candles.

All in all it was a really fun birthday party. It was plenty warm even though it was overcast. Right at the end of the party it started to rain pretty good, but lucky there were only a few things left outside that were really easy to pack up quick. Everyone just ran to their cars and left. It was perfect timing.

Oliver playing with one of his toys after the party. Yeah!

Wait a minute! What did Deven do to his hair! After a less than desirable haircut Deven decided to go bald, but not all at once. He sported a Mr. T haircut for at least half a day.

Easter morning. The Easter bunny decided to bring bunny ears and bunny balloons. These expressions of Owen’s made us laugh.

Oliver was very happy to discover all his goodies.

What was left of Oliver’s birthday cake was had as the treat for Family Home Evening which was Monday, April 1st the night of Oliver’s real birthday.

So I hope you have all enjoyed this blog. I still have to figure out how to insert movies. As far as I can tell now it is done through a You Tube account so I will have to double check my sources.

Love you all!

Oregon Howards

Halloween 2012

Last Halloween Owen was the Grim Reaper and Oliver was a Skeleton. We thought those costumes went well together don’t you think so?

Check out the spooky face makeup!

I have never seen Owen and Oliver work so hard for something in my whole life. Because of the particular neighborhood we were in every house we went to had 2 to 7 stairs or so and both of them trucked up each one, undeterred to get candy. It was a lot of work for their little bodies, but they did a great job and of course had a yummy reward at the end.

Owen beginning his school year and news from this past week in our lives.

First day of school! Owen loves his Spiderman backpack (thanks Grandma and Grandpa)! …and his little brother!

          

Owen striking a pose!

Standing outside his classroom. Room 3, Mrs. Stormberg.

Kids in Central Point take the bus! Deven and I never got to do that in Hawthorne. Boo Hoo We had to walk 10 miles both ways in the blazing sun and sometimes freezing snow!

First day of school was September 10, 2012!

Now it is March 24, 2013!

I am trying to play a little catch up with this blog now since I don’t really have a lot to blog about this week or at least pictures to show for it.

Events from last week:

Wednesday: Owen woke up with a fever and had to stay home from school.

Friday: I made “Sopa de albondigas” (meatball soup) for “noche familiar” Family home evening at the Spanish branch. Lots of time and dishes and I think it turned out okay. Next time I am getting a $5 pizza.

Saturday: We continue our Saturday-morning ritual and went to Donut Country before daddy started his work day. The boys always get to pick one or two donuts of their choice.

Then I spent all day organizing stuff while the kids played with neighbors, then daddy came home and we went out to dinner at Panda Express.

Questions I answered a lot this week:

7 am, Oliver: “Mom can I have Owen’s chocolate easter bunny?” (pretty much every morning)

7:15am, Oliver: “Can I have macaroni and cheese.”

Questions Deven answered a lot this week:

Owen and Oliver: “Daddy when are you coming home?”

Sara: “Deven when are you coming home!?!?”

I had a lot funnier questions than that this past week, so I will try to keep track better and include them in my weekly section titled, “Funny things the kids did last week!”

This coming week is spring break so we are going to have lots of excursions, play date’s and fun.

Love you all, hope your week goes well!

Love, Sara

Funny things our boys do

 

Oliver loves to give me (mommy) things. When we were walking down our driveway the other day Oliver picked up a dead leaf and said, “this is for you mommy.” When he wasn’t looking I let the leaf blow away in the wind. After Owen got on the bus and we were walking back to the house Oliver asked, “Mommy did your leaf blow away? Did you lose your leaf?” He said “don’t worry mommy I’ll get you a new one!” and proceeded to pick up a new dead leaf. I was sooooo… grateful! I thought it was so cute I had to come inside and take a picture of it. Hey it’s the thought that counts and Oliver is very thoughtful.

Present to mommy from Oliver:

Previous to our excursion to the bus stop Owen was trying to act “casual” and was pulling his shirt down a little. I knew he was trying to seek something to school so I told him to take it out of his pocket and that he could not bring toys to school in his pockets. So he emptied out his pocket of two marbles. I was busily trying to get things ready for him to go to school and forgot the matter until….

I gave him 50 cents for a drink at school and told him to put it in his pocket, when I asked him if he had he held out the money in his hand. I then proceeded to check his pockets wondering why he had not put the money in them. I proceeded to pull out about 20 marbles and 12 dice out of his pockets, but wait I noticed among those item there were 3 tiny screwdrivers in his pockets as well. (I usually keep those things together in a jar so they don’t get lost). I then proceeded to notice 3 highlighters stuck in his belt loops. I realized a full frisk down was needed and I turned him around and found 2 radios stuck in each back pocket. I had to take a picture of it all.

With his pockets emptied I sent him off to school, hoping that this kind of thing does not happen in high school.

I hope you have all enjoyed my little stories.

I discovered an easier way to write blogs and this one only took about 15 minutes to write. So hopefully this will motivate me to write more, but no promises. Love you all! Keep in touch.

Love, Sara