Whirlwind Travels

May has been wonderful!  We have had lots of opportunities to travel!  From Lakeview to Government Camp to see Melissa and Matt, back to Bend.  The girls and I cheered on Team OSP SWAT at the Pole, Peddle, Paddle!  It was fun to spend some time at Mt. Bachelor, but really disappointing that we did not get to ski.  Only daddy made a really great run to lead his team.  

The girls paying at the Old Mill District after the big race.  

Winner, winner, winner!  Okay, so they didn't get the gold but they had a great time.

We got to spend some time with the Roth family and their precious baby Hunter.  Here I am with Ginny...soon we will live closer.  Our girls are the same ages, hopefully we will have more playdates soon!

Awe, my FAVORITE!  Me and my girl Elise.  Yep, gotta love the aviators.

From Bend, we took a brief detour to Las Vegas.  And by we, I mean Scott and I.  It was lovely and we had a chance to spend some time with family in Reno.  The girls stayed with Dammy and Papa, they had a great time!

From Reno, we took a brief pit stop in Lakeview to unpack, repack, and work a little.  We loaded up the camp trailer and headed to Sheldon-Hart Mountain.  We had the chance to spend the weekend at Duferrena, God's Country!  Wow, it was beautiful!  Here is the gorge, and the pictures don't do it justice.

And we took a trip to see a petrified tree, wow!  And, an old homestead with a rock fence.  

Now, back to laundry...

Can I hold her?

We finally made it to Bend to spend a little time with friends.  Here is Baby Addison.  Elise and Lauren are in love with her and constantly asking to hold her.  It's really special watching Lauren interact, and attempt to be gentle with Addie, who is almost 2 weeks old.

It's a time in our lives we are thankful for our friends and their babies.  We have enjoyed our fair share of baby snuggles, but as our girls grow, we can't help but love the stage in life we have made it to.  With the exception of the endless questions of how babies are born.....ugg.

Here are a few of my favorite pics.  Thanks D & Rob for sharing your precious baby with our family.

Those girls are going to make many memories!

Pretty Fingers

When Elise was about 2, she got into my make-up.  It was really pretty funny.  She had tons of blush on and cried when I plopped her in front of the mirror.  

I learned my lesson. 

My make-up is safe up in the bathroom cabinet, out of reach of little fingers.  

Lauren, however, cannot reach my make-up for an evening of mischief.  She found the bag filled with finger nail polishes.  After an a quiet evening downstairs, I wandered upstairs to check on my sleeping beauties.  

Lauren was not sleeping.  She was applying finger nail polish...all by herself.  "Mommy!  Look, pretty nails!" She was smiling from ear to ear and I couldn't help but let my enthusiasm fade as I noticed the rainbow of colors all over her carpet.  

None the less, I know I will look back and smile so we went and found the camera.  

What a cutie!

I spent the next hour scrubbing the carpet.  I didn't get it out and after a blister and watching my carpet start to come out I gave up.  And called Scott to report that we need to add new carpet to the list of future house needs.  (He was in John Day at training.)  

Life does go on.  Here she is sleeping soundly as I scrubbed the carpets in her room....she looks so innocent!