Celebrating good times

Ihave been slacking big on my blog! I hope to change that. I made a really big committment to speak at church on May 3rd, so blogging was not a good use of my free time. After that was over, I was ready to celebrate! I had a really fun birthday and got spoiled. We went to a cool bed and breakfast! We had a great dinner, a round of mini golf and a little shoppping. Sawyer loved the place we stayed. He fed the chickens and the fish in the big pond. He collected eggs in the morning which was way cool! We were also impressed that the nursery on the property was equipped with a darling coffee shop to serve the caffeine addicts.

Mother's Day was great yesterday except we weren't with our moms! We had two great meals (oh yeah the breakfast Zach made was pretty good too) and I had a big Sunday nap! Thanks boys!

Our house was in open house status all weekend and as it would be nice to end this chapter, we fully recognize it just may not be the right time. So as it stands, we are still here and plan to be for awhile.

Run Around Until You are all Pooped Out

This is quite funny to us and quite memorable. I'm not sure that Sawyer has ever just crashed like this. He has always been a bed sleeper and car sleeper. I've heard that kids do this when they get tired enough, but I have never seen it from him. As he gets closer to his next birthday, he has started to learn the art of the "argument". Many days he will say that he doesn't need a nap, and that he isn't tired at all. I guess this was a day we just said, ok, stay up. By 4:30 this was his condition. It looks like he was planning a little trip for himself and just didn't have the strength to finish packing,

Yes, that is the famous sucking of the thumb! He loves it! And there isn't much we can do about it when he is asleep. If you can see the time of my post, you will see that I wish I could suck my thumb and go back to sleep!

Since we are on the topic of sleep, I don't think I have ever appreciated my amazing ability to sleep at any time. This week I have been plagued with waking up at 3:00 and not going back to sleep. I have had the same concealer for 100 years and I think I've managed to use it up this week for the dark circles.

Easter

We had a great weekend! The weather was gorgeous and spring is springing here! Saturday we had a fun family picnic at Whiskeytown and then joined all our friends for an egg hunt. Sunday we spent the morning celebrating our Savior rising from the dead, so our sins may be washed away. I am so thankful for this gift of grace and mercy that I don't deserve.

We spent the rest of our afternoon with our friends, enjoying food, games and company. If any of you have been following Sawyer's Woody saga....you'll notice Woody is in the egg hunt.

Sawyer was told when he could stay dry at night, he could have Woody. I have been stripping sheets every morning since Christmas. He had 3 dry nights in a row, so we thought we would reward him(mostly for his patience in waiting for Woody).

happy st patrick's day

So, I'm pretty sure we are not Irish. I think Megan is an Irish name. Anyway, last week Sawyer came home from preschool and said they read a book about a leopard. When I asked what the leapord did in the story, he said it pinched. It took me a few days to realize the teacher read a story about a leprechaun. So I was inspired to throw a St. Patty's bash...corned beef and cabbage, green jello, lime koolaid, shamrock shakes, and pots of gold candy. We had a treasure hunt to find the gold and Sawyer said he found leprechauns under the bed. In Sawyer's words, "We sure had a fun day!"

Peaceful

My sister and her husband came to redding a couple of weeks ago. We were having our famous Nor Cal rainy weather. Instead of wasting a perfect day in front of the tv, we decided to Snowshoe. None of us had ever tried it, but we are all so thankful we did. We searched all over town for the last remaining "cheap snow boots" for our guests. Yeah for Big 5! We got our snowshoes at Sports Ltd and off to Manzanita Lake we went. It was snowing the whole time, but it was so gorgeous and peaceful.