Camp out!

The weather is perfect for backyard camping right now.

Not too hot and not too cold.

Rolli and Viv (and Colter too) invited their good friends Caleb and Fiona over for 

a full moon camping out slumber party last Friday.

What a bunch of wild kids and silly faces!

They all played so well together, even Colter!

These two boys giggled and laughed all through bedtime.

They kept telling secrets about how they where going to stay up all night and play.

Then, just like the girls, they where sound asleep and maybe even a little snuggly.

In the morning both Rollin and Caleb tried to tell me that they really didn't sleep at all.

They make me smile :)

The rest of us slept through the night and didn't try to pretend otherwise.

science

The neighbor girls invited Rolli and Viv over last week to join in on their science experiments.

I could hear them discussing the experiments and chatting away.

They where all such good lab partners that I couldn't help but snap a few photos.

Rolli, Emily, Vivian and Siiri.

Isn't it exciting to watch the kids growing and learning!

And it's such fun having great neighbor friends with a tree house!

Of course Colter was slightly disappointed that 

he did not get to go over for the experimenting.

So as soon as we got home he pushed a chair over to the counter,

got up on the counter

and pulled out the baking soda and vinegar.

And that was without any prompting from me!

Mr. Man doesn't miss a thing and he sure is a smartie pants!

Colter doing his own science experiment.

It's hard to see the baking soda and vinegar reaction in the photo

but Colter was sure pleased with the eruption.

I just love our little learners!

Soccer

Spring soccer has started!

And Rolli had his First ever soccer game last night!

Even though he didn't really know what he was doing

Rolli had a great time playing soccer :)

Caleb and Rolli.

Caleb scored 4 goals!  Rolli says he scored 2 or 3 (but I only saw 1).

The team mates and their cheering squad :)

We are looking forward to watching Rollin's soccer skills improve!

A weekend in Packwood

We where lucky enough to spend the first weekend of Spring Break

 with some friends at a cabin in Packwood.

Rollin, Vivian and Colter had the best time ever 

playing with Finn and exploring the forest and river near the cabin!

Finn found a wrestling buddy with Rollin and Colter too.

Vivian was in heaven with all the opportunities for snuggling :)

Finn, Colter, Rollin and Vivian.

These four played hard from sunrise to sunset (actually they where still going after sunset).

Even after a long hike in the morning the kids where ready for

 another (shorter) hike to the waterfall.

Rolli loves all this adventuring!

Colter couldn't be happier :)

Before leaving on Sunday we spent the morning down at the river.

The gang was super excited (especially Rolli) to find this nursery tree.

We just love Finn!

He's such a sweet and active boy!

Thanks to Sara's parents for letting us stay at their cabin! 

It was a great weekend!

The hunt is on!... for Easter eggs

Rolli, Vivian and Colter love to "do experiments".

And dyeing Easter eggs is the perfect time to experiment with colors. 

My crazy bunch :)

and their color concoctions.  

Mixing colors and dyeing eggs!

We loved all the different colors and we each had a favorite :)

Silly faces and dyed eggs!

With 18 differently colored eggs our lil' flock was ready for an Easter egg hunt!

Lucky for these kids the 'Easter Bunny' remembered to come at 5am to hide those eggs.

Happy Easter!

Marshall and the kids had at least 6 egg hunts while I slept the Sunday away :) 

March 11, 2016

There once was a day when I couldn't image 

my two little sweet peas 

being any bigger than, well, sweet peas.  

That day no longer exists :(

Now we have two FULL size 6 year olds!

Queen Vivian.

 All ready for kindergarten in her new birthday clothes.

Rollin.

All ready for whatever life throws at him!

Our 3 lil' birdies, growing up fast!

Happy 6th Birthday Rollin Von and Vivian Mae!

Rollin and Mrs. Hannah :)

on his first day being a 6 year old!

Vivian and Mrs. Connor :)

on her first day being a 6 year old!

Thanks to the twins teachers for helping make their birthday a special day!

Both classrooms sang "happy birthday" and enjoyed birthday cookies!

Star Student!

Our young Rollin Von LOVES school!

And he tells me hes' teacher is "amazing".

This is Rollin's first day of kindergarten picture that Mrs. Hannah took.

Gosh, it's already been 2 months!

Then on October 13th (yes, it's taken awhile to share pictures)

Rolli was the Star Student for Mrs. Hannah's class.

He got to do things like be the line leader  and share some stuff about himself.

And all of the other kids drew a picture of Rolli :)

Mrs. Hannah then made a book of all the pictures from his classmates.

Kindergarten is too cute!!

Even before school started Rolli was kinda a 

Mr. Know-it-all. 

So it's really nice that's now he's actually learning a whole lot to go along with his attitude. 

My sweet, confident young fellow has recently learned how to draw hearts.

And the first word he learned to spell was DAD.

I love these little notes that he is so proud to share!