Blessing day and 2nd Birthday!

I am overwhelmed with blessing. I am so thankful for such a wonderful family my 2 kids and husband mean everything to me. We also have a very large support group of family and friends. It is days like this last weekend that make me really appreciate all the people in our lives. Here is our sweet Jodi who we blessed this last weekend. She was so happy and smiley for everyone. We are so lucky to have her a part of our family.
And here is our big boy! Wow when did he grow up he is now 2 years old! Time has gone by so fast. He is so fun to be around and so sweet. He loves trains and so here is is with his train cake he was so excited! It was pretty cute he was so embarrassed when everyone was singing happy birthday to him!
Here are some family picts
I have come to realize that it is hard to take picts with kids.
I thought this was pretty cute tyler and his brother they look like they are matching! Goofy guys!
Here is my dad hangin with the kids before the big event.
We has cousins and grandparents there it was a really fun weekend. It is crazy to think but calvi and jodi had 6 sets of grandparents there! We are so lucky to have so many of them!
And we will end with our little stinker! What a silly boy

It finally snowed!!

Jodi is so excited to see snow!
Calvi is such a great helper shoveling the back patio!
We built 2 snowmen. A calvi snowman and a Jodi snow-woman! Calvi really was excited even though in this picture he doesn't look like it. He was to in to watching the guy clean off the sidewalks with a snowblower.
Here he is admiring our work.
And here is our sweet little girl.

Last Oregon adventures

Here is Calvi in his hotel bed with his little buddy! He is funny he loves to tuck his animals and himself in bed it is pretty cute!
We took a trip to the Oregon coast since we were so close. We headed out one morning and our first stop was Tillamock Cheese factory. It was fun to see how they packaged the cheese and it was also good to taste some!
Then we drove up the coast and stopped at a few beaches along the way. This is us at Twin rocks. The weather was actually really great for being January. It was only really breezy when you were right up to the water. It was overcast all day but it never rained till it was dark and we were eating dinner.
A really fun thing that we got to do was feed seals some dead cut up fish. Calvi thought it was fun to feed them. When you ask him what a seal does he will slap his chest cause that is what the seals did cause they wanted the fish. It was one of our hi lights of the trip.
I liked calvis foot prints in the sand. He had a lot of fun with tyler getting close up to the water and running super fast when a wave came up to not get wet.
Here is the fam at haystack rock at Cannon Beach. We had an awesome day running around on the beach. It was one of our favorite outings while in oregon.
This is how we brought on the New Year. We started a fire in the fire place and watched movies and ate good food and snacks! Whoooo! Notice calvi and i have matching shirts! ha ha
Here are the boys at the Portland temple. Calvi like the water ( the water ponds).
Here is a really huge and awesome play park jungle gym in Washington park. Calvi loved it and the whole thing was perfect for his size!
This is where we spent a LOT of our time at the mall stairs. Here are the kids playing and jodi just hangin out!
We took a trip to krispy Kreme doughnuts. It was fun to see them make the doughnuts and calvi loved eating them!
Here is a cute pict of the kids sleeping on the couch calvi likes to cuddle up and be by jodi sometimes.
Calvi just discovered a love for the tub! he loves to play in the tub especially when we get creative and throw in all kinds of random stuff.
Here is my mom and gma. My mom brooke and her kids came to see us the last week we were there. We went to visit my grandparents for the week then went back to portland spent the night and packed up and headed out. It was a lot of fun to have them come up and join us.
I had a lot of fun while on our adventure in portland. It was a great experience for ty and our family it made us really appreciate how close we are with our families back in idaho. It is so nice to have so many people who care for our kids and are a part of their lives. This is jodi back at home while we un packed the car. Calvi was so funny he got inside and said "mine own house!" he just kept saying it over and over he was so excited and happy to be home!

Ducks, Horses and Boys and a Girl!

Here is our Jodi bugs she is getting pretty chubby we just love her! Calvi likes her shirt he kept saying cupcake cupcake!
We found this really awesome park that is not to far from where we are staying. It is a dog walking park so there are a lot of people and their dogs which calvi likes. There is also a big duck pond.
I have a cousin who lives not far from where we are and she had 2 boys, they are so cute. Calvi has really been missing his friends and cousins and so it is fun for him to hang out with these boys. He cant say their names so we call them the cousins. We took the boys to this carousel that is in the food court of a mall. They really liked it and we got there a little early and they were excited to get on.
This picture is so cute! Jacob likes Calvi and wanted to sit by him. It is cute cause Calvi will just follow him around and they get along real well. I also thought it was cute that they were both wearing camo jackets i kept getting them confused. We also took the cousins to the duck park where they saw ducklings as Jacob would say.
Ty has been working hard here we have gone to the office a few times to be with him while he was working and here are the kids camped out in the office. Calvi likes sitting in jodis seat it is like a little rocking chair. He will sit there for a long time and just watch mickey mouse.
And end with a little more Jodi bugs. I love that she still has long hair. Some of it has fallen out but it already has started to grow back in those spots.

Just a couple of kids

Here are the kids. I just love them! This is the best pict i have of them since they are so wiggly and calvi didnt want to hold jodi for to long.
Jodi is all smiles she really is happy a lot.
This is how pictures usually are. Calvi is just takin off his shoes and jodi is done taking picts. These pictures are the ones that really make me laugh cause that is what it is usually like when i want to take a nice pict.
Calvi loves jodi so much. He really looks out for her. She was here sleeping on the couch and then calvi saw her and i looked over cause i thought he was poking at her and this is what i found. he had to lay right next to her. He calls her his jodi bugs.
Here we are on calvis favorite walk here in portland right on the river. We always see the choo choos and boats, buses and bridges. There is a lot going on down there.
This is one of calvis favorite things to do is the mall stairs. It is so cute sometimes in the day he will just say go mall stairs and play toys. He likes to ride the stairs and then play on the toys they have at the mall.
One day we went to this beautiful place Multnomah Falls. It was really pretty and we even went up and walked across the bridge. We are really enjoying all the green and trees. it is defiantly a change from the idaho desert.
And end with another pict of Jodi. I feel like she is turning into a mommas girl since she has really had no one accept me to hold her all day. She did ok with my Gma and cousins at Christmas but I just cant wait till we get home and there will be so many people who will need to take their turn holding her!

Merry Christmas 2011

Hey i hope everyone had a great christmas we sure did. We did a few activities around here and one of our favorites was going to a place called peacock lane. It was a street where everyone on it decorated their house with lights it was really fun to walk up and down and see all the awesome lights.
Since we are here in Oregon we were not able to make it back to Idaho to be with our familys wich we really miss. We were lucky to have my grandparents and cousins who live in Eugene about 1 1/2 hrs away to go be with. We got there friday evening to start the festivites.
My cousins came to my Grandparents house every night to play games. It was fun to visit with them and Gma had enough candy, and snacks to keep us plenty full.
Here are the kids in their christmas pj's. Calvi had mickey mouse he was so excited and he just went around saying mickey mouse. It is crazy how i got them a little big and they were falling off sometimes but i know it only takes a matter of weeks before he will fit them just right. I already had to go through jodis cloths cause she is growing so fast!
Me and the kids in our red and green!
Christmas morning was fun this year calvi acutally got excited and went through everything. We just took our time with things he would stop and play with everything for a while and we didnt even end up opening presents till after lunch and church! he would open a present and play with it for a while then go to the next thing. it was hard to get him to keep opening them so we just took our time.
Here he is with some of his christmas loot.
Santa came!! All our stockings ready to get into!
And end with our sweet little girl! She also had a great christmas. She is just such a happy smiley little girl!