The Farm

Last weekend my friend Tamara and I found ourselves husband less and decided to go take the kids to have some fun. We went to The Farm. It is an adorable little farm where the kids can feed and pet all the animals. Tamara has two little boys the same ages as Tyler and Adam so we do a lot with them. They are awesome!

Tyler trying to drive a tractor.


Adam and Cohen were able to chase down the wallaby. It was so cute hopping around!


I had to keep Alex in his car seat and try to protect him from the crazy goats. They go nuts if they think you have food.


They have goats, deer, llamas, ducks, sheep, pigs, a wallaby, and all sorts of fun things.

Tyler liked the deer because they are a little more gentle than the goats.

Adam gets to go back in a couple weeks for his Kindergarten Field Trip. Fun stuff!

Life is Just Peachy

I know....I'm a nerd. But I just couldn't resist with the peachy title.

A couple weeks ago Janice and I took the kiddos and headed out to Sugar Plum Acres for peach picking. This place is absolutely gorgeous. It is just row after row of peach trees. They are so easy to pick and only 50 cents a pound.

Adam was all over it!


Janice and London picking, while Kylan slept in the car. You park just right next to the trees.


Me and my field hands.

A couple days later Janice and I canned almost 150 lbs of peaches. Yum! I also made some delicious peach dishes like peach glazed chicken and a peach meat loaf. Of course we had plenty of peach cobbler as well. Tyler is addicted to peaches. He would eat about 10 a day and I finally had to hide them. This is one of the things I love about living in Southern Oregon!

Keep'n it Weird

We had plenty of time to take pictures while waiting in line for VooDoo Doughnuts....for an HOUR! I had heard they were awesome but wasn't too impressed. The toppings are unique but nothing to write home about. Maybe we ordered wrong. It was fun people watching because Portland IS weird! It's a good weird though. Although the teenage beggars on the side walk had a whole sob story written on a box about not having money to get back home. Then they pull out their iphones and roll a joint while trying to hide all the money sticking out of their pockets. Oh Portland!

The best part.....

.....is that Alex slept during breakfast at I hop so I got to eat and relax! We don't have I hop in Medford so we had to eat it for breakfast in Portland.


Adam was pretending to be grumpy in pictures because I told him to smile. Yeah, he is nuts.

No pics of the food because I was too busy eating! Yum!

Portland with My Parents

When we went to the airport in Portland we were only there for about 24 hours, but of course my parents were only 2 hours away and we had to see them. Thankfully my dad, mom, and little sister Laura drove down Sunday night and we were able to have dinner with them and swim at the hotel pool.

Alex adores his Nana and Papa!

Tyler always remembers them immediately no matter how long it has been since we have seen them.

I didn't get any pictures of Adam and Laura because they were busy swimming. Adam swims awesome now and followed Laura all over the pool.

I wish we could have spent more time with them, but it was a great couple hours.

Laura!

Meet Laura Corcoran. How cute is she? Laura was one of my bff's in High School. We had some amazing times together! Dance team, sleepovers, trips and more punk rock shows than you could count. I love this girl. She is tons of fun and now.....drum roll.....a mom! She lives in Portland so I got to visit her and her adorable daughter when we went to drop Mario's grandparents at the airport.

It was a whole new level of crazy seeing our KIDS play together.


(If I was really good I would add a picture of us from high school....but I'm too lazy to get out the scanner.)

Papito Pancho y Mamita Alicia

For two weeks in August we were so blessed to have Mario's grandparents come visit. It was so fun for them to spend time with the boys. Both are just adorable. They don't speak English and I don't speak Spanish so it was interesting at times. We had fun together though.



They love to cook so we had the best Ecuadorian food everyday. So good!


They were also great with the boys. How cute is this picture!?

Thanks for coming to visit Mamita Alicia y Papito Pancho!