Spring Break

I realized that this year I don't have a baby that naps twice a day, I'm not pregnant, and we didn't just move so I wanted to have a fun Spring Break with the kids and do more local things. (We went on a trip last month and have a trip planned for next month.)
So on Monday, we went to visit a friend's farm since her cow had just had a calf the day before:

Nicholas and a goat:

We went with the Clement's and Braithwaite's and the kids got to feed the cows, goats, horses, and chickens:

Boys being silly:

Brooke and Kate:

Dirty looks by David:

Nicholas got the chore of carrying a heavy bucket of water for the horses:

Myra let the kids ride her horses too! Here's Zach (check out that sky!):


And Nicholas:

Brooke's turn:

Then the kids got to gather eggs. Here's Nicholas:

And Brooke:

Thanks for all the pictures, Robyn!

Tuesday we walked along the waterfront at downtown Portland with the Heuers. Here we are crossing Portland's Steel Bridge (did you know it's the only Steel Bridge in the USA?):

Lots of bikers and joggers enjoy this route too.

Passed a beautiful Tulip Tree along the way. This is a picture I took looking straight up at it:

The kids posing with a statue of a previous Portland mayor:

Wednesday was the most gorgeous and warm day of the week so we went with the Heuer's and Podwys' and spent a couple hours at a Pirate Ship Park that I've been hearing about for a couple years:

Thursday we went to Safari Sam's. It's an indoor jungle gym with levels for all ages. It also has miniature golf (which we skipped) and arcades (couldn't skip). Donald Heuer and Nicholas:

Maya Heuer and Brooke:

Zach and David:

A slide David's size:

Friday we had a down day and just went to the library.

Saturday the boys had 2 hours of baseball practice. Fortunately the field has a couple play structures for Brooke and David.

Zach catching a pop fly:

Zach hitting the ball after the coach "machine pitches" it:

Nicholas playing ball. Fortunately they are on the same team:

Nicholas hitting the ball:

And some of the parents were still working on cleaning up the field during practice. After Mike raked a lot of sand in the infield (not to mention all the work he did the week before), he got a turn on the tractor delivering more sandbags to the adjacent field:

And the best part is all this cost me less than $50! (Plus a tank of gas.)

Cannon Beach is GORGEOUS!

Can you believe it's still technically Winter? Spent last Saturday at the beach with Mike's mom, his sister, and her fiance. 64 degrees, no wind, totally perfect.

David had no fear of running up to the waves. He always tries to keep up with the big kids. But he just didn't understand why they were screaming (happy screams) and running back when the waves came. So he would run back and forth, wimpering the whole time. Eventually, I took him back to just dig in the sand. I think he was trying to give me kisses here:

Nicholas and Zach are way in the background here, running up and down this hill: