In loving memory

Jim is my friend Jessica's father, he sadly passed away on April 22nd.
Growing up I stayed at there house alot and her dad was a very funny, caring and wonderful person. Just one of those people that could make you smile.
We will miss you Jim.

Spring in Oregon?

I guess hail storms are a sign of Spring? Or at least we hope. We got this hail about two weeks ago.

Another year older on April 1st!

I am a April fools baby! I had a wonderful birthday! We went out to a lovely dinner at Olive Garden. I has my favorite bread sticks and some yummy sangria. So, now I am 25 years old.. Yipes, only 5 more years until the big 30. I am catching up to Ash!

“The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”

Lucille Ball quote

Fun in the sun.. FINALLY!

We have had rain, snow mix, rain, thunder and all those nasty weather conditions.. finally the sun peeked out on Saturday and we played outside.

Our happy boy.

Queue song "we are the champions"!

What Dorian does when he thinks or just because.

This remind me of Ash...

Easter

We went to the Hubbard easter egg hunt again this year on the day before easter. Dorian seemed a bit overwhelmed by it with all the people and I did alot of the running to get the eggs with him attached to my leg but he ended up with quite a good haul. It was over in about 1.5-2 mins, you have to be fast with kids and easter eggs! For easter we had over people at our place and we had to do a easter egg hunt inside for the first time, it was pouring outside! The kids still had a great time.
Click here for photos of all the fun!

Need to do catch up on the blog..

We are moved into our new home and we are enjoying it so much.
Dorian adjusted alot better and faster than we expected which was great.
I am going to do some catch up here with some photos and then in the next day or 2 I will post photos of the new diggs. :)

Dorian at the old house building.

Dorian hiding as he does not like the camera.

This is what happens when you move and your dog likes to come everywhere with you, one stuffed dog!

At the old house with bubbles. You must have turtle slippers on in order to blow good bubbles.

Dorian at the old house with the frog him and dad found!

Ribbit....

Ash painting!

Dorian making the vacuum wands balance beams.

Big news!

We are moving! Long story short, Mom and Bud bought a brand new house about 2 blocks from where they live and we are taking over there house. We are very excited. It is the house I grew up in since I was 7. It has a huge backyard and its in walking distance to the shops, parks and library. We should be all moved in by the 15th of March. So the blog will not be updated until we get moved in. Lots of photos to come though, we will be painting and all the jazz. Should be fun!
Until then, here are some photos.

Power Ranger Dorian, those boxes make him VERY strong.

Ash and Dorian playing guitar hero on the Wii.

Warning: "Gangsta" Photo below
This photo makes me laugh so hard! Dorian wanted dad to wear his hat backwards just like him and I had to get a photo, and Ash said lets look like mean gangsters and so thats Ash's face and Dorian's face is the same face he has been pulling for about a month now when he is acting cheeky, which is ??? We have no clue?! He tries to close one eye and does a half smile...hehhah

We caught the cat red handed with Dorians power ranger AND spiderman!

Dorian just chillin.

Spring is here!

The sun is coming out from hiding and we are excited!

Dorian's tulips he planted are coming back up.

That tree bark begs for a heart with a arrow.

Ash's birthday dinner

We had a dinner over at mom and Bud's for Ash's birthday.
As you can see Ash got all 32 candles on his cake!

Happy birthday to you.. Happy birthday to you...

Dorian had to hurry over to dad's lap so he could blow out the candle too!

Make a wish! I love this photot!

Dinosaurs!

For Ashar's birthday we went to Portland to OMSI for the Chinese Dinosaurs, Ash went when he was young in Australia with his dad. It was alot of fun! Here are some photos.

Digging for dinosaur bones

Dorian and Mum in front of the dinosaur outside, it was HUGE!





Dorian thought this one was real at first, and still would not go near it even after telling him it was not.
Cheeky Dorian and the birthday boy!

Happy Birthday to the world's best dad and husband!

Happy 32nd Birthday!
We hope all your wishes and dreams come true.
As on every birthday, I always tell Ashar how proud his mum would be of him.
We love you Ashar!

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
--Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Random photos from the past week

We got a wii on Saturday! The 3 of us went with cousin Meagan and Grandma and lined up at Toysrus from 8am-10am to get 1 and we got 3 to resell. It was fun experience and the other 3 are sold already. So we got the wii for "free" after selling the other 3. Here is the rock star Dorian on the guitar playing a wii game.
Grandma pulled out the baseball set as the sun came out, finally!

We went outside and played when it stropped raining and Dorian got on his "Ninja bike" and did some tricks.