Friday at Oma's

Another warm day and the fact that Aunt Dominique was going to be gone prompted a trip down the hill to visit Oma. She had the pool ready, and the kids were in it by 9 am. We then went across the street to take cousin Isabella to her very first garage sale. The kids had a picnic in Oma and Opa's backyard and I'm going to make memphis style barbeque ribs for the family tonight. We wish you were here daddy!!!

Thursday in the Park

As the mercury rose on Thursday of our visit with the Savage cousins, we ventured out to a park in Sandy and packed a picnic. Kids of all ages were at this giant play structure that was built in 1995 by members of the Sandy community. The only drawback of this place was the fact that there were so many places for the kids to hide!
The cousins playing in a boat.

Dominique, Sandor and Zoli taking a break from playing.

Zoli ready with his new umbrella just in case it was going to rain.

At the end of the day we enjoyed spumoni ice cream on a cone. Thank you Oma!

Birthdays in June: Part II

In continuation of the previous post, the Savage cousins even had gifts for each of the kids in celebration of their birthdays. Here they are below.
Dominique with her purse and Dora doll.

Sandor and Zoli opening gifts.

Zoli playing with his new umbrella.

Sandor with his tigger puppet.

Birthdays in June

With Mat being gone on a business trip to London for a week and the kids cousins being in town from Singapore, I decided to venture over to the eastside to spend a few days at their house. Their cousin Isabella thought we should have a party to celebrate all 3 kids birthdays, so that's exactly what we did. All in the same day, Dominique turned 2, Zoli turned 4 and Sandor turned 5! We had a great time being festive and spontaneous with the cousins.
Here we are celebrating with lunch at the Spaghetti Factory.

Sandor posing with the Isabella and Sebastian in his birthday hat

Zoli and Sandor playing blower wars during the evening portion of the party.

The evening menu was pizza and cupcakes, courtesy of Isabella.

Portland Rose Festival 2008

We ventured down to Portland's Waterfront Village today for the annual Rose Festival. This was my first time going, and the main reason we went was to see the Dinosaur exhibit featured this year. It was pretty fun. Some of the exotic animals that they had there were better than the zoo!

Sandor posing with Homer and Marge

A stegasaurus at the dinosaur exhibit

Sandor's first pony ride - he was pretty excited!

Sandor and Neanderthal man at the dinosaur exhibit