Memorial Day Weekend

For some reason, this week seemed to take forever! By the time Nick came home from work on Wednesday, I thought that it was Friday evening. On Friday, the boys and I went in to work with Nick so I could help him file. The last time I went in to help him, Baby Nick was still in his infant seat, and only scooting around on the floor. You can imagine how much more difficult it was to get any work done, with Baby Nick speed crawling towards doors, stairs, shelves full of fun things to pull off, and generally making a nuisance of himself. And, I had to try to keep the boys quiet so that everybody else could get their work done!



(Sidebar: I just looked outside...it is midnight and still quite light out. It looks to be around 9:00pm in late spring/early summer Oregon.)



After we picked Nick up at work on Friday, we went out to dinner. Then we went to Sportsman's Warehouse for Nick to get the one thing he has been dying for all winter....his season fishing license. He got up at 3:30am to go fishing this morning. You have to fish the high tides up on Ship Creek, so there are only a couple times a day that you can go. It's amazing how easy he gets up when it comes to fishing, yet anything else (work, helping with the boys, etc.) it is nearly impossible to drag him out of bed. He sets his alarm 15 minutes ahead of when he has to get up just so he can snooze twice. When he finally does get up, he has only left himself 15 minutes before he has to leave. Talk about going to work half asleep!

Saturday was a very fun day. We took the boys for their pictures. I love getting their pictures taken; they are so precious and cute, I love to see how a professional photographer can bring it out. I also like to hear how many people come to the same conclusion as I...my boys are the cutest anybody has ever seen!! :) After pictures, we had dinner and then went grocery shopping. (It is always better for us to go shopping after eating, we are more likely to stick to our list and get less extra stuff just because we feel hungry at the time.)
Sunday morning the boys and I went to church. We had guest Pastors and Evangelists from Russia. It was amazing to listen to their testimonies. All who had testified had been slaves to drug addiction for eight years or more, and God's saving grace took hold of each of them and for the last eight or nine years, they have been spreading the Gospel to those still enslaved. They have started a rehabilitation center and a child care center, where children of broken and poor families can come and stay, go to school. Joey had fun in the nursery again. He should be in a big boy class, and he has been asking to go ever since he turned three, but call it bad timing, they had a flood downstairs and started remodeling at that same time. Pastor said this morning that they should be laying carpet on Tuesday, so hopefully they will be able to reopen the 3-5 year old class next week.

Tomorrow, we are hoping to go to Jewel Lake, where there is a park with swings. Joey wants to take his ball so he can play catch with Daddy. Baby Nick will be able to swing for the first time (other than a baby swing) and I expect that he will like that. I hope the weather holds up, it has been overcast and a bit rainy this weekend. Nick will probably go fishing tomorrow. Now that he has his license, he will go as often as he can.

We are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Aunt Angie. It is only 24 days till we can go pick her up at the airport! Joey talks about it everyday. Baby Nick is working on his walking, trying to get ready to 'wow' Aunt Angie with his ability. (We'll see if it happens by then. I'd be surprised if he did walk by next month, but I'd also be surprised if he didn't.)

One last thing before I go...The pictures I added to the blog are of some funny things I saw Baby Nick do today. First, he climbed up on the stool, and not just kneeling, like he has done before. He got all the way up on his feet! What a big boy. When he saw that I got the camera out, he turned his head toward me and smiled big for a picture. He is such a ham and loves getting his picture taken. The second picture is showing how he read the Sunday paper. When Nick came home from fishing, he stopped and got breakfast (donuts from Freddy's) and bought a paper as well. I haven't read a newspaper since I left Oregon! That's nine months without a paper. Baby Nick got hold of it and, well, you can see the results. Then he laid out on top if it and 'read' it.

I hear Baby Nick waking up, so I better go. Lots of love to our families and friends. Enjoy your Memorial Day.