Spring Break cont...

After we got home from Seattle we went to the Tulip festival in Woodburn, Oregon. This is one of my favorite places... I think the Celestial Kingdom will have tulip fields!!!

Spring Break

Visiting Seattle!

Jared got a week off for "spring break", luckily it was the same time as Brycen and Blake's spring break. We were going to head to Utah but decided last minute that we didn't feel like driving all that way! I love Utah and my fam, but I absolutely HATE that drive!

So we decided to head to Seattle and see what there was to see! We got a city pass, which included the Space needle, the science museum, the aquarium, the Seattle zoo, a boat ride, and the museum of flight. We packed all those things in a couple of days! I realized that I forgot my camera when we got to Seattle so here are a few crappy photos from Jared's cell phone of our trip.

Science Museum

Space needle (Space noodle to Allie!)

Boat ride

Museum of flight

(This is an old Air Force One, used back in the days of President Eisenhower, Johnson, Kennedy and Nixon.)

My Little Princess

Allie is all girl from head to toe. She goes nuts over anything that is pink, princess, or pretty. She would wear a dress every day if I let her. She saw this yellow and pink flowered dress at Costco when I was there doing some shopping one day. I let her hold it for the time I was there and then I snuck it out of the cart. A few weeks later we went back to Costco and the minute we walked into the store she wanted to go find that dress and there was no way I was sneaking it out of the cart that time!

I bought Allie four pairs of princess shoes. I let her earn them by going on the potty! After a few days of earning princess shoes Allie is potty trained! YEAH!

Getting Allie dressed is getting harder and harder, because she has a very strong opinion on what she should wear. Usually it has to be pink or a dress for Allie to agree, very different from her brothers who could care less about what they wear.

I love that she is so girlie, I thought she might turn out to be a tom boy since she has two older brothers but nope she is 100% girlie girl.

What a Mess!

My parents sent us a package in the mail and the kids thought the box was the best part! I didn't want them getting into the box but Allie snuck in it when I wasn't look'n and then the boys joined in the fun. Instead of getting mad, I broke out the camera and got some cute pics. We had one messy room, exactly what I didn't want, but I'm glad they had their fun! I found packing peanuts around the house for a week!

Richard comes home!!

My brother Richard came home from his mission to Peru this past month. My parents got to go pick him up and spent a few weeks visiting families that Richard knew as well as sight seeing different areas of Peru.

I took a quick trip home to see him and to hear him speak in church. He did an awesome job, he has such a strong testimony and it was fun to hear some of the stories from his mission.

Saturday morning Michael made us waffles!! And then that afternoon I helped Michael and Richard de-junk their room downstairs. That night we all went to Cafe Rio for dinner!

I was showing Richard my blog to catch him up on the past couple of years! He said "there aren't any pictures of me on your blog." So here your go Richard... pictures of YOU! on my blog! Glad to have you home!

All of us together for the first time in two years! I for sure made the best face!

Cafe Rio! YUM!

Richard loved my camera in his face!

Who would of thought, Michael cooking? I was impressed!

Playing at the Portland Children's Museum

A fun day at the zoo

Jared had Presidents day off so we took the kids to the zoo.