Susan G Koman Race for the Cure!

Audriana's soccer team (Spokane United Black Widows U10) learned a beautiful lesson in giving back and volunteering -- how perfect for a group of young ladies to volunteer their time to such a wonderful cause. They were sponsored by UPS (thanks Jayme Carter!) and spent 4 hours Saturday afternoon at the Convention Center. Their job was to hand out t-shirts and registration packets to the attendees. Then, they were back down at 6am on Sunday morning and helped again to set up tables and tents for the big race. They completed the race with their coach, Rik, jogging the last mile or so. We had a tired bunch of girls at the end of the race! I was so impressed and proud of these ladies!

Easter 2012 is here!

Happy Easter everyone!  Are our girls the only ones that get up at 5:40 am on  Easter Sunday?!?!  Geesh!

And the hunt begins.....I made them wait until 7am.  Ha!  The Easter Bunny did a very good job of hiding the eggs, but the girls found all of them!

All dressed up and ready for church.  Aren't they BEAUTIFUL?!?!

Met at Patty and Chad's for brunch....YUM!  Sausage souffle, fruit, cinnamon rolls, and spinach salad.

Oh yah....and dessert!  Marissa and the girls made these cupcakes, plus the bunny cake!

Marissa is home from PLU -- she's in her freshman year and having so much fun.

I just love my cousin, Patty!  She's a wonderful person -- and such  a great host.

The Easter  Bunny hid some eggs at the Wilhite's house, too!

Grandma and Grandpa

Easter preparations!

Coloring eggs is always fun......a bit of a mess...but a lot of fun!  The funny thing is that the girls don't even like hard boiled eggs (they used to!).  So Martin and I end up eating all of them for 1 weeks straight!  

Happy Easter!  Jesus is Risen!  Jesus Loves Me!  I Love Jesus!

After we colored eggs on Saturday, we headed over to the Wilhites.  Patty and Marissa had invited the girls over to continue the tradition of making the Bunny cake!  Marissa did a great job of helping the girls and they had a ball.  While they made the cake and cupcakes, Patty and I had fun setting the table (for 14) with her good china, silver, and glasses.  What a relaxing and fun day!

TA-DA!  THE FINISHED PRODUCT!  AMAZING!

Spring Break and the Palouse Falls!

During the girls' Spring Break we decided to drive down to the Tri Cities and spend the night at the Richland Courtyard.  It was a good excuse to get out of Spokane for a couple of days and enjoy a little road trip with just the 4 of us.  It was so great!  Our first stop was at the Palouse Falls.  This was our second time here and it just does not disappoint!  The water was running so fast and was so full of force!  The weather was a bit chilly, and a bit windy.....but it was still fun.  We brought Ginger and the girls had fun running with her (on the leash, of course!).  We stayed for about an hour or so, then headed the rest of the way down to Richland, where we checked into the hotel (upgraded to a great suite!).  We had so smuggle Ginger in (shhhhh!).....we just couldn't leave her at home and since she is so small and quiet, we thought it would be fine.  

The water was so awesome!  So powerful!

Here is Sofia holding Ginger.....

We saw Spring in Richland!  It was definitely warmer than Spokane....although, still a bit chilly.  We ate at a fun restaurant called Dave's Burgers and Brew.  It was a great place -- a very busy place -- kinda like a Red Robin.  The portions were so huge, none of us could even finish our dinners!  After dinner we headed back to the hotel and went to bed -- we were exhausted and everyone was tired.  The girls slept on the pull out sofa bed in the other room and fell asleep almost immediately.  I read for a while....started reading The Hunger Games!  

The next morning, Martin took the girls down to the pool to swim for a bit while I got all of our stuff put back together.  We checked out around 11am and headed off to find a taco truck for an early lunch before we headed back to Spokane.  The taco's were amazing!

Happy Birthday to Martin!

A proud daddy with his girls on his 49th birthday!