Today was a big day for Easter Egg Hunts. I was super excited to take Keegan out. This is his third Easter but this was the first year that he would be able to understand what was going on and really have fun hunting for eggs. Our original plan was to just get up and go to the Alpenrose Dairy as they have a big Egg Hunt every year and they also have a hunt for diamond earring for the moms. However, when I was in Albertson the other day I saw a sign that said they would have the Easter Bunny and an Egg Hunt this morning. So I told Matt that I wanted to take Keegan there just in case the weather was too bad and we couldn't take him to the other. I remember when I was a kid our big Hunt was down the aisles of Smith's grocery when it was over by our house. So I kinda laughed about the thought doing the same thing with Keegan. I said to Matt when we pulled up, I hope this isn't lame. (The reason that thought crossed my mind is because at Christmas time they said free pictures with Santa and when we got there, it was not well done and they had a cross eyed Santa) So we went inside and the store had the whole meat section blocked off and then had the kids gathered around. The floor was covered with plastic eggs and candy galoure and there weren't very many kids. Some of the eggs had paper in them that had a prize. So the whistle rang and we were off, well at least Matt and I. Keegan grabbed one egg and wanted to open it before he moved on. We kept hollering, get it Keegan get more, fill your basket. He didn't really care about that. He kept looking around and saying "Easter Bunny where are You?" and then he would go and look for the bunny. In the meantime we were trying not to take all the candy from the kids, and Albertson's had good candy. We were modest about it. Needless to say, it ended up being a lot of fun. There wasn't a crowd and Keegan got his fill of eggs and the prizes that he won were, 3 one pound bags of carrots, I guess that is so you can eat a piece of candy and then try to make yourself feel better by eating a carrot, he won a corn dog and a hot chocolate. I think we will be back for this hunt again next year. Super fun.

Next we were off to the Alpenrose Dairy for another easter hunt. The ride over there took us almost an hour with the amount of traffic that was headed that way. The crowd was huge and they threw chocolate eggs on the grass and then released the kids to gather as they could find. Keegan did pretty good. He wasn't really that interested and Matt got a little crazy by the crowds. Instead of seeing the Easter Bunny that was supposedly there we saw a Moose. I don't know what the Moose had to do with Easter, but ok. Keegan was scared of the Moose and he has been walking around saying, "Moose is scary" We decided not to stay for the mother's diamond hunt because the crowd was massive. There were thousands of people there today. By this time it was getting cold and Myles was hungry so we decided to take our chocolate eggs and go home. We probably won't do that one again, but we might visit the dairy again. There were lots of attractions to look at there and on a nicer day we will go back.

Keegan over all had a fun time. I think he has eaten so much candy that he is refusing to take a nap or eat any lunch. I wonder what the Easter Bunny has in store for him tomorrow.

Hoppy Easter Every Bunny.

So Proud of You

It is time to play a little catch up.  A little over a week ago we decided to move the queen mattress into Keegan room so that he could start trying to sleep in a Big Boy Bed.  We figured we would start off by trying to get him to take naps on there and then we were crossing our fingers that we could move to night time sleeping.  It started off really slow, and naps went ok.  There was a lot of getting up and opening the door and daddy standing outside saying " go lay back down"   We decided that we weren't going to push the issue really hard because Keegan has already been through a lot of change since bringing the baby home.  When we take him upstairs we ask him if he wants to sleep in the Big Boy Bed and at first for awhile he would say no, he wanted the baby bed.  Well about 3 days ago he told Matt that he wanted to sleep in the "Good Boy Bed" that is what Keegan calls it.  So Matt went up to rock a bye and Keegan wasn't too interested in it.  He just looked at daddy and said
"Good Boy Bed"  so Matt laid him down and sat in the chair for a few minutes and then left the room.  We were quite expecting him to be in and out of our room the whole night with this new freedom, but much to our surprise he didn't come in until morning.  He had slept in the Big boy bed the whole night.  I guess that first night he did cry a little so I went in to check on him and he said "mama lay down" so I did lay there for about an hour.  We were so proud of you Keegan.  That was a pretty big deal.  So we have tried it the last 2 nights as well and he has done GREAT!!!!  He is sleeing in the Big Boy Bed all by himself.  I absolutely love about 7:30 in the morning when he comes running in our room screaming " Hi Daddy"  then he crawls up on the bed and snuggles with us for a few minutes.  He is growing so much and as much as I miss the smallness of our little boy, I love to see how much he grows and changes.  I just want him to know that we are so so so proud of him, he is such a funny little boy and he is such a blessing to our lives and our family and I am looking forward to seeing his example as a big brother.  I love you Baby K.

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Cool Dude

We are on our way to Tillamook for an icecream today. Now for those of you who know how far Tillamook is then you will think we are crazy and laugh at us. I guess I have a little of my dad in me. But here is a cute picture of Keegan in his cool sunglasses all dressed up and ready to go. Happy sunny Saturday.

Growing

This is a picture of Myles at 3 weeks old. He is growing so much so fast. This little guy seems to be hungry all the time. He always wants something in his mouth. He gets fussy when he doesn't have something to suck on. However, tonight his daddy cradled him and he sat with daddy so calmly for quite awhile. It was refreshing to have him just sit calmly without looking like he is starving. Myles is really strong. He holds his head up alot. He is still so stinking adorable I just melt everytime that I look at him. I really want to cherish the time I get to be with him before I have to head back to work full time. It is going by so quickly. He is truely a blessing to our family and I just love him to pieces.

Goodbye ole Blue

Well the time has come for us to give back the winning Mini Van. It was a sad day. The van has worked out so nice for us. We will miss the automatic opening doors, the built in dvd player and all the extra space. The van took us many places, here and there. We even traveled across seas to foreign territory together. We counted on the van to take us back and forth to Idaho on several occassions. We enjoyed traveling with company in the comfort of her 7 seats. She was a trusty ole van.
We only had to put it in the shop 4 times while we had her in our 1 year. But we knew the day would come when we would have to say our goodbyes. We asked about keeping her, but the dealer was insistant on getting her back. The price to keep her was beyond our limits. So it just wasn't meant to be. We parted ways but not without a fight. Upon preparing to leave behind the keys for good the dealer decided that he wanted to charge us $150 cleaning fee. I don't think so. So upon another trip to Woodburn we took her to Purdy's car wash where she was cleaned and dried for the grand price of $1. The dealer was rude to us when returning her because we wouldn't buy another vehicle from them. But there was no clause in the lease saying that upon return we had to buy a vehicle. So we handed over the keys for good and left her behind. There is no doubt that she will make another family very happy. And for us, we are back to a cramped up Jeep. But at least when the baby cries he is close enough to reach back and put the pacifier back in his mouth. And when Keegan gets mad and throws his juice at you, it really hits you.

But we will find joy in our Jeep...........So long Ole Blue. We thank you for your 1 year of free service.

KEEGAN VS. MONSTERS VS. ALIENS

Yesterday Matt and I wanted to get out of the house and so we decided to take Keegan to the movie Monsters vs. Aliens. My mom had given us some free movie tickets that she had gotten from rebates that she sent in and the expiration date was yesterday. Matt and I had intended to use the tickets to have a date before baby Myles was born, but that never happened. Can't really remember the last time that we went on a date. I think it was before Keegan was born. Since that obviously didn't happen then I was going to use the tickets to take my mom to a movie when she was here last week. Well time went by too fast and that didn't happen either. Anyways, back to the movie. We needed to use the tickets yesterday or else they would go to waste and I didn't want that to happen. So we thought maybe Keegan would like to see the kid movie. Before we left the house we asked him if he was going to be a good boy at the movie theater. His response "OTAY" We told him that if he was a good boy then we would buy him popcorn. Again "OTAY" so we chose an 11:15 am movie thinking there probably wouldn't be too many other people at that one on a Tuesday, and we were right. Only 1 other guy and little girl. Great!!! So we had to pay 6.50 for a ticket for Keegan. Really!!! He is only 2, and then we had to pay $6.00 for the popcorn. I made Matt stop at the gas station before going so that we could get a soda and candy and sneak them in the diaper bag, grand total $6.10. We got seated and have the popcorn ready to go and for the first 15 minutes of previews Keegan was well behaved eating as much popcorn as he could shovel in. The movie starts and he seems to be doing ok, and then a little while goes by and he seems to be getting a little bored. The movie I must mention was screaming loud and poor little Myles was not too happy about that. So I was trying to hold him and plug his ears. Next thing I know Keegan is off his chair and trying to get past me. I grabbed his arm and sat him back down. Pretty soon this was all that we were doing. He was trying to crawl on the floor past my legs, then he was trying to crawl over the chairs. Threatening to take the popcorn away was not working. He didn't care about the movie and quite frankly neither did I. Next thing we know Keegan has run out of juice. Oh no!!!! "I want Juice daddy, I want Juice" We don't have any more juice, "Scream....more juice daddy"
Finally the only way to quiet him was to put some soda in his cup. We haven't given him soda before, now he kept saying "more daddy, more" Was this movie going to ever end. The answer, Yes, it did finally end and we were all more that willing to leave the theater and decided that taking a 2 year old to the movie, still not a good idea. There is not an alien crazy enough to abduct our little monster. $18.60 later we are on our way home, all a little grumpy. Good news is, the movie tickets didn't expire. Next time we will invest the $18.00 in a babysitter and come home happy.