Trey had a birthday!

We love the fact that Trey gets to share his birthday with Father's Day... at least this year. The birthday was a 3 day event. The Bledsoe's got here on Saturday just in time to rush over to the Bend Airport for Family Day. So much fun. The kids (Derek included) got to sit in airplanes, firetrucks, and they even went for a helicopter ride (Thanks Justin for being the brave one in the group, taking Derek and Trey). Tian stole the show though getting his picture taken by the Bend Bulletin and seeing it published in the Sunday newspaper!





Monday was the real birthday! It was like Christmas around here. Trey woke us all up at 5:30 and wanted "at" his presents! Robert came over for breakfast (Omelets from Bob are the best)and to watch Trey try out the Spider Man skate board Robert gave him.




After presents were opened and the car packed up (whoops, the main suitcase was left here but finally made it to Nampa a few days later)we headed over to "Bouncing off the Wall". Everyone loves that place. This was the first time the Velcro wall as set up, Derek enjoyed himself.. I kind of wanted to try it myself!




Even Tian thought he was a big boy trying to climb up to the slide. He wasn't quite sure after he came down, but sure enough he did it again!


It's always sad to see the Bledsoe's drive away, but we will be seeing them twice in July, so it wasn't so sad! Thanks Trey for celebrating your big day with US!

Jori graduated.. and we were there! (Kind of)

Our very cute, smart, talented niece Jori graduated from the American Doha School...(Something like that). My brother and his family are "stationed" in Doha, Qatar. I felt so sad that they were once again moving out of the country (last time it was Chile), but poor, very cute, smart, talented Jori was going to have her senior year in a new high school.. out of the country. She and the rest of the kids have done wonderfully (Their next station will be Athens, Greece). My brother Mark sent out a site on the computer that we could tune into and watch the graduation ceremony. It started for us at 8:00a.m. I had such a good time watching it in my pj's and talking to my sister Kari, niece in law Rebecca, and daughter Rebecca as we were all trying to find Mark, Debbie and their children in the audience. Finally we spotted Jori walking in with the classmates. I had a tear in my eye seeing how cute she looked and how happy she seems. It was a very LONG graduation, with many, many talks. I couldn't hear the speakers very well, so I got out the ironing board and got alot done. (When was the last time you were able to watch a graduation, in your pj's and iron... and the graduation taken place thousands of miles)


I couldn't help but hope that Debbie wasn't wrestling the two youngest children during all the speakers (I found out later that she had left them with a neighbor). After she graduated, all the students went around hugging and talking to each other. Jori was so close to the cameraman... and just as she was coming even closer, Mark was walking towards her and WHAM... the ceremony ended and we didn't get a close up on Mark, but it sure was nice to see him anyway! Congratulations Jori! Can't wait to see you at Kellen's wedding (her brother) in July!




That is Jori, right there on the left with the cute, short sassy haircut!

What Color was that Fire Truck???

I read about this event coming to Bend. I had to take Derek to experience it.
"Guardians Of The Ribbon Tour" came to Bend. Along for the ride were Firefighters clad in Pink and a Silver Ribbon being pulled by a Pink Firetruck. The day we went, firefighters and DJ's from radio stations were there having their beards and mustache's shaved off, money went towards Breast Cancer awareness. My mom had breast cancer, my dad's mom had breast cancer and my daughter Rebecca is a mammographer as well as a radiologist. I wanted to add my two cents on the truck (If you look closely, you can see peoples comments and signatures on the firetruck), but too shy to ask a fireman for a sharpie. I had tears in my eyes reading some of the people's notes. Derek didn't understand why we were there, he just thought it was cool to see a pink firetruck!

Our Drive to the Temple in May

Our Ward Temple Day was set for May. It seems like the last time we went to the temple as a whole ward, it was February and the weather was snowy all the way.
You'd think May would be calm, and Spring type.
Take a look at the different "seasons" we went through on our 31/2 hour trip to the temple.