Weekend in Sutherlin and Green

We went to Mandy and Jonah's in Green on Sat morning, Mandy made us a yummy breakfast and we played outside in the sprinkler and in the yard, we dug up the old garden spot and moved it to a new one, found a colony of snails, when I say we I mean Jonah, Josie, Maddox, Marley, Mandy, Josh, Elissa and me.... didn't take a single pic!!! Maybe it had something to do with my dirty, sweaty hands.. we had fun!


Sunshine + Soccer + Sprinkler = SMILES!!!!

This was on Friday at Misty's...







There is an ongoing project going on at the Griggs', in September before Hendrix was born, Misty and Lonnie's Tahoe transmission broke, the hunt was on for a used one in good shape at the right price, this took a while. After a dark, evening trip to the town of Rainier, WA. the part was secured. It has been quite a process and with the skilled hands of Reuel, Asa and Lonnie the transmission and transfer case and drive line are now back in or under the Tahoe...not totally hooked up but they are there, believe me no quick, easy, task. we are truly grateful for the men in our family who have the knowledge, patience and skill and yes MUSCLE, because it take muscle to lift, yank, pull and cajole these parts to where they need to be. Thank goodness for a day of sunny weather to cooperate with the job!! Good Job Guys!!!




I find it so sweet the way Marley leans her head on Uncle Asa'a shoulder when I take this picture, no prompting just love!!
With weather like the weather we had in Sutherlin this weekend it is easy to see why we lived there for so long....so green and so beautiful and ward and "fresh"! Asa was having his 22nd birthday so we took some time (he did not have much) and shared an ice cream cake and sang and took a couple of pics, that is about all we got but it was good!! Happy Birthday Son!!

Easter 2010

Kind of a different thing to have at an Eater Egg hunt but it sure was popular, face painting.. Marley loves her unicorn and Maddox is Flash Gordon!!! Jonah just did not want his face painted.
The kids go to see the Eater Bunny and have a photo op!!


The Stewart Park Eater Egg Hunt
It is funny how you can live in a place for over 20 years and never attend an annual event..........Then you move 3 hrs. away and come back to not only attend the event, which in this case is an Easter Egg Hunt but enjoy with the grankids. Despite the cool, wet weather we had a great time as the grankids "hoovered" up the brightly colored plastic eggs filled with candy. Here are some pics from that event .

We had an Easter Celebration at Misty and Lonnie's house on Sunday, we had alot of fun coloring eggs, hunting eggs and eating a wonderful dinner, the only thing that would have made it better is if we could have had everyone there!! We were missing Asa and Summer, Danielle, Michael Myla and Payton and Josie who was sick that weekend.

Wow we had a busy week last week!! We started out with a visit from Misty and Lonnie and family, Misty and Lonnie went to the casting call for The Biggest Loser her in Portland. After 11 hrs, standing in a line that barely moved they were sent into a room with 13 other people and given 30 seconds to tell about themselves and give their reasons and motivation for wanting to lose weight. They did not get a call back but were encouraged to send in a video of their everyday life. It would be a great opportunity for them but would be hard to leave their kids.

It was fun to have them here for the weekend, the kids stayed with me and we had a great time together.