Grandma and Grandpa!

Grandma and Grandpa Hancock,
Thanks for coming to our house for Memorial Day weekend. I had lots of fun playing at the park, wrestling with Grandpa, and building a castle with Lego's. Thanks for coming to visit me! I love you and miss you.
Love, Josh

Playing at the park
Andrew enjoying a cookie
Wrestling with Grandpa
Building a castle

Love is in the air!

Well, things are going well for us. We finally got our fence in the backyard a couple weeks ago. Now we're working on staining it. The lattice on the top makes it a major pain to paint. We're hoping to get it done in the next couple days so we can move on to the grass and patio.
Andrew has taking a real liking to his friend Alisa. They were being really cute the other day, and I was lucky enough to get some of the tender moments on camera.

Josh has become a computer nerd lately! He learned how to use the mouse and play computer games all by himself. I'm amazed at what he can figure out on his own. What can I say, like father like son!

Happy Anniversary!

Well, yesterday was our 5 year anniversary. Darrin took the event seriously and decided we should do something out of the ordinary. So we decided the try a fondue restaurant called The Melting Pot. The restaurant is in downtown Portland and in the basement of one of the tall buildings. We walked down to the restaurant and were lead to a very private table...which is apparently something they are known for. Some of the booths had curtains on them so you could have complete privacy. They even gave us an anniversary card. They serve four courses of dinner. The first one is a cheese fondue with bread, apples, and veggies. They make the fondue right in front of you with this fondue pot and burner on your table. Then they bring you a salad, and it was super, super good. The 3rd course was the main one. They brought us this broth type liquid in a fondue pot and then a platter of raw meats. You put the meat on your fondue stick and boil it in the broth for a couple minutes. It was really cool how it works, but it was probably my least favorite course. The last course was Chocolate fondue with strawberries, bananas, pineapple, marshmallows, brownies, etc. It was soooo good! Anyway the whole experience took about 3 hours. It was just so fun and well worth the money! For the occasion Darrin also brought me 2 dozen roses, and then after the kids were in bed we watched our favorite show: Close to Home. It was definitely an anniversary to remember! Thanks Darrin. I love you!

Anyone have a deaser?

The other day Josh told me that he had a deaser. I asked him what a deaser was, and he proceeded to show me a little scab on his foot. To make sure I understood him correctly I found a little scab on my arm and asked him if it was a deaser. He told me it was. I felt lucky to have a deaser too!

Grandma and Grandpa's House

On Sunday we were telling Josh that his Grandma and Grandpa Hancock were going to come visit him at the end of the month, and during the summer we're hopefully going to go to see both his grandparents. Well, now as a result, he won't stop talking about how he wants to go on an airplane to see grandma. This morning he woke up crying and very upset. Darrin asked him what was wrong and, through his tears, he said "I want go to grandma and grandpa's house." Then later today he was saying the prayer on the food, and he said something about going to grandma and grandpa's house. It breaks my heart to see him be so sad about not living close to grandparents. I might just have to get on a plane and take the kids to see grandma and grandpa!

Got Dirt...Again?

Monday we got another truck load of dirt. This kind was a more nutrient rich top soil. We only ordered half the amount that we did last time, and luckily we had the help of Chad and Julie and their family (Darrin's brother and fam). We were able to move it all to the backyard in record time: an hour and half! Last time it took us 8 hours!

The boys and their shovels!

From the beginning we kept saying that we wished we had two wheel barrows...so we rigged this make shift wheel barrow out of a recycle bin and a wagon. Chad made it work very nicely!