birthday joy!!!

with miss evelyn's birthday on may 20th and mine on may 24th, we have been in party mode around our house! we had an absolutely awesome party for the little miss on saturday, she is a very lucky girl to have so much family and close friends that love her to pieces and spoil her rotten! :) thank you to everyone who made her party so special!

my very special friend pam, took these pictures of evie the week before her birthday and then gave me a few of her favorites at her party...i LOVE them! she also joined in on miss evie's birthday celebration, so stay tuned for lots more pics to come.

i hope these pics tie you over for a bit because we are moving from state to state this week, so i can't guaranty when i will get more birthday pics posted. i will try my best to get them up soon, as i know a few of you are waiting very patiently for them!

thanks again to everyone for all the sweet birthday wishes and presents...we both feel very loved and spoiled! :)

XOXOXOXOXO

happy 1st birthday sweetpea!!!

it has been a year today since our little sweetpea arrived...we can't imagine life without her, she has brought so much fun and laughter into our lives!

happy birthday sweet girl...we love you!!!

love,

dad & mom

xoxoxo

catch up pics...

i'm almost one!!!

a few weekends ago we spent the weekend in hood river and went to a friends wedding. the wedding was in mosier, which is just southeast of hood river. the setting was amazing, you drive up in the hills on 2.5 miles of gravel road and then you get to this incredible barn with an amazing view. it was a typical windy day in the gorge, but we all stayed cozy and warm in the barn with the fireplace going. :)

dad and miss evie out for a walk in downtown hood river...
deer is still her best friend and is normally in her mouth! :)
enjoying the wedding favors...

even though it was a windy weekend, the sunshine was still awesome!

we stayed downtown at this cute historic hotel...

the next weekend was a garage sale at aunt lucy's house. evie had lots of fun playing with the dogs and all the treasures we were getting rid off!

she latched on to this cb that colton was going to sell...she packed it around on her shoulder all day!

lunch break in downtown corvallis...evelyn loved the vietnamese sandwiches and aunt lucy's izzy :)

sarah was in town for the weekend so we went to gathering together farm for dinner. the food was awesome!!! if you haven't been you should for sure make time to go. almost all of the food is grown on site, even the meat.

enjoying some blueberries before dinner...

looking spicy with aunt sasa at the farmers market...

evelyn helped make whip cream for mothers day breakfast or should i say she taste tested it :)

i love whip cream in my hair!!!

last week the little miss and i made a made dash up north to take care of some house stuff. mow the lawn, pull weeds, etc. we also had time to squeeze in a quick run with my running partner (i'm going to miss her sooo much) and had a play date with our friends. before we headed home i played in my soccer game while evie continued her play date with our neighbor friends (we are also going to miss them a ton, but they are moving to california, so we will just have to make some trips to the sunshine this winter to visit!)

we spent the next few days in portland...evelyn loved the water park in the pearl!

it was a perfect day to get your feet wet...

she played so hard at the water park that she feel asleep with her hand in her snack cup on the walk to dinner!

this last weekend was wedding prep at the tenbusch house. as most of you know brian's brother is getting married at his parents house in july, so the yard projects are in full swing! 150 plants got planted in pots and 500 plus plants got planted in a berm along the river bank. tony grew most of the plants in her greenhouse...the wedding is going to be gorgeous with all the flowers in bloom!

evelyn loved ridding the lawnmower with grandpa...

we even got the groom to help plant!!!

miss evie was a big helper too!

helping dad...

helping grandma plant her tomato plants....

great grandma trying to keep evie out of trouble :)

i can't believe the rain is back already after our gorgeous sunny weekend...i'm ready for some more sun already!

ps-i have a few videos of evelyn walking on mothers day, but can't seem to load them. i think you will all have to hang tight until i get my computer and Internet up and running. at the rate she is going now, miss evie might be running by then too!!! :)

xoxoxo

surprise...justin and adam turn 30!!!

the crew at justin's party....

adam, tony, brian, justin, and tristan

(these boys have all been friends since grade school!)

this month we have had some super fun surprise parties to attend. justin turned celebrated his golden birthday this year...turning 3o on april 30th. his sweet wife katie threw him an awesome surprise party at bar in corvallis. it was a super fun night visiting with friends and celebrating justin as he enters into the 30s club! he was so surprised to see us all there that i thought he might pass out...maybe i'm exaggerating a bit, but he was a little pale at first! :)

the birthday boy and his wife katie as they just walked in...

a little dancing...

some random loggers even joined the dance party!

the next weekend adam turned 3o. he started out golfing with the boys at a country club in albany and then they were suppose to head back to his house for a bbq. but, little did he know that all the ladies were waiting for him at the country club. his lovebird nicole had a prime rib dinner waiting for them which was much appreciated especially since the boys had just golfed 18 holes...they were hungry! she also had a yummy chocolate cake that looked like slab of wood, which was very fitting since the birthday boy is a timber faller!

surprise adam!!! nicole and adam...these little lovebirds are getting married in july!!! we can't wait!

the group...

thanks ladies for throwing such fun parties!

justin, was that enough screen time???!!! he recently requested more screen time on the blog, maybe i can make that happen now that we will be living in oregon again! :)

a little bit spoiled!

i hope all you mommy's out there got spoiled for mothers day, i know i sure did! it was so much fun celebrating my first mothers day, i think i like this holiday. :) i spent saturday in corvallis with my mom and sisters, we went to the farmers market and then pretty much just enjoyed the sunshine the rest of the day. my mom brought me a gorgeous bouquet of flowers which has been making the house smell so yummy! on sunday we started the day out by making strawberry waffles and sausage for brian's mom and family. then brian, evelyn and i headed over to sisters for the day. i can't tell you how good it fills to be only an hour and a half from central oregon again! i'm so excited about that!!!! brian had scheduled me a massage at five pine...which was awesome, it was so great to just relax a bit. we then had a early dinner and drove up to the head of the metolious river. it was so great that we could do all that in one day and still be back in time to put evie to bed. can you tell that we are already loving being back in oregon??!! even though brian spoiled me on mothers day, i think the best present was watching miss evie walk across the living room!!! i can't believe she started walking on mothers day, what a perfect treat! although it is a little bittersweet watching my tiny baby grow up so fast, wasn't she just born??!! even more crazy to think she will be 1 in a few weeks!

thank you miss evelyn and brian for making my first mothers day so special...i love you both!!!

i know i haven't posted much lately, but i haven't got my computer hooked up to the internet yet, so its a little hard to down load pics and such. and lets just say we have been busy! i have some fun pics to share from the two 3oth birthdays we attended over the last few weekends, so stay tuned for those.

it has been so great spending so much time with friends and family the last few weekends, it seems like when the sun comes out our schedules get booked with parties and such which is great. i guess that is one reason we love summer and the sunshine! :)