Basketball

Jack says basketball for the first time.

(The quality is not so good as it was the camera on my phone!)

Daily Jack

Just another snippet of Jack playing outside. Oh to be a kid again!

Play structure fun

Some outdoor play structure fun. I just love his faces in these pictures and had to share!

Such a little ham but I love it and him!

Momma's little gardener

Jack watering momma's hanging plant

He was excellent out in the garden

Hey, the grass looked thirsty too I guess.

Friday was a beautiful day getting up into the 70's. After hanging out with Papa and Gma Pat we brought home some worms for the chickens then spent some time working in the garden, watering, playing in the water and in general having a wonderful afternoon.

"Ellow"

Well it seems mother nature is indulging Jack with lots of yellow things around our place. This morning we noticed this little guy enjoying our feeder. The resulting "ooooo's" and "ahhhhh's" from Jack were quite entertaining.

Happy Mothers Day

My boys surprised me with this beautiful bunch of flowers for Mothers Day. Aren't they just the prettiest?! I'm sure Jack picked out the yellow ones! Love and blessings to all mommy's out there!

Travelers

Hola! Well thats the extent of my spanish for cinco di mayo. We've been gone for the past 5 days in Palm Springs visiting Justin's parents. Can I just say now how much I LOVE the sun! You hear that weatherman, SUN, not rain!

Our trip was awesome, even more so since dad joined us this time. The man was due a vacation! We arrived in Ontario, CA after having to switch planes in Portland before we even left. Jack was a great little flier and slept cuddled next to daddy on take-off. I randomly ran into a friend from college who was on our flight, loved that too, and we arrived in CA to lots and lots of sun, for about 30 min before the sun set! :) Here are a ton of pics from our trip for your viewing pleasure.

Jack and daddy

Anxious to see gramma and grampa

Our first outing to Whitewater, a fish reserve with tons of beautiful pools full of trout. Jack shared his cheerios with them which resulted in much entertainment.

Jean and I found this quote and LOVED it!

Jack and his favorite color of flower, YELLOW, which he happened to say for the first time.

Jack and I showing grampa and gramma our "dolphin swim" underwater. We had just done this in swimming a few days before and Jack did AWESOME!

Jack was quite the little underwater swimmer this trip, such a change from his first swimming experience here at 10 months!

Jack and daddy at Whitewater, can you see his "OOOOOO" face?

This is our favorite Mexican restaurant in Palm Springs

Jack got his vitamin C for the day as he ate almost an entire orange!

Jack and gramma watching the dancers

Which happened to be a cute couple

Our men

Next day we went to the Living Desert Zoo, a camel ride was first on our agenda. Which incidently was a first for all of us.

Almost like being on safari

He was trying it out for a new home, too small

Jack wasn't too sure about the goats, despite dads reassurances

Eventually tho he got more comfortable

I have no words for this guy

Not quite sure what he is doing here, basking?

Olympia the golden eagle, who refused to go back to her handler and eventually flew off to be chased while the crowd waited.

And last but not least an African porcupine

Ahhhhhh....lounging in the pool with grampa

Sunbathing with gramma

Sun baby

We arrived home to clouds but a bit of sun, then yesterday was sunny as well. At least it wasn't a total weather shocker! Jack is happy to be back playing with his chickens, we moved them outside for a day and fed them grubs and worms, and to be hanging out with his Henry dog. Dad is once again immersed in his store, while I am nursing a cold and trying to catch up on laundry. If only vacations could last indefinitely. Oh well, hope you enjoyed our trip as we most assuredly did. Loves!