Thursday, July 21, 2011

Our New House - Before We Moved In

Entry/front room

Kitchen

Living Room off the entry

Upstairs bathroom

Master bedroom

Back Deck

The door to the left is Kylie's bedroom and these stairs lead down to the basement where there is the family room, laundry room, Mackenzie's room and Levi's room.

Almost to Utah!

Kylie and I thought the shadow of the 4Rummer looked like a baby Shrek!

This sign says, "WELCOME TO UTAH!" The glare was a bit much. We are happy to see blue skies and sunshine so no complaining.

Saying Goodbye to Our House in Mac

Levi left with Grammy and Grandpa because he is staying in OR to finish his baseball season and have a little vacation by himself.

Mack had a hard time saying goodbye to her wagon that didn't fit in the truck and her tree swing. Hopefully, other little kids will love this swing as much as she did!

We had to hit up Voodoo Doughnuts before leaving OR. The kids had so much fun picking out doughnuts, eating the doughnuts, and playing the video games.


My favorite was the one with chocolate, rice krispies and peanut butter.


Kylie and Levi like the maple bars with bacon.

Mackenzie tried ALL of them!

Last stop in OR before we head into Idaho then finally into Utah! There were a ton of cattle trucks in Pendleton, OR. Hal was hanging in there...barely.
Hal with his harness and leash. Ridiculous! I didn't know how else to travel with a cat that has never left our cul-de-sac. Hal cried in the cat carrier the first night. Kearb took him in the truck and he was freaked out but was better just being free. Then he was harnessed to go to the motel room for the night. These pics were from the next day. Kearb took such good care of Hal and was the BEST!

Hal wasn't so sure about heading outside. He didn't go to the bathroom until we made it to Utah. He can hold it for 26 hours we learned.

Here's our turtle sitting and sunning on the luggage rack in the hotel room. She did fine on the trip.

This pic is of the girls sleeping and the cat is snuggled in there with them.

Here's the box to the harness/leash for Hal. He never looked quited like that cat but it worked.

Fun at Wings and Waves!


Tea Time!

Say tea!

We took a break from packing to have a little tea party.

Kenzie and her daddy!

Levi had to jump in too!


Last Day of School/Portland Timbers/Library Field Trips

Kenzie's classmates.


Abby, Mackenzie, Hailey...together.

Clara, Mackenzie, Mrs. Widmer, Abril...together.


The 2nd Graders went on a field trip to see the Portland Timbers play at Jeld-Wen Park. AWESOME for the kids and as a parent. As a teacher the worst/craziest field trip ever! Mackenzie had fun though.



Kenzie's in the middle standing to see and cheer!


This was our walking field trip to the library.



All the Hard Work Paid Off! Master's Graduation

JoAnne flew up for the ceremony and was such a sport to drive to Salt Lake with Kearb later that weekend.


Blurry...but that's me on the left.

Portland State University. I have other pictures of me with my Dad and Deb but those are on Kearbs phone. I'll try to add them later.
She wanted to curl her hair. Isn't she cute!

My favorite guys! Love them!

Great graduation dinner!

My best girls!

Kylie, Levi, Kearby, Mackenzie having fun in downtown Portland. LOVE THEM!!!