Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hallelujah! Praise God! The impossible has come true!!!! Grace is potty trained!!! This may be a premature evaluation, and I'm prepared for accidents and maybe even a bit of regression, but Grace has been using the potty since my birthday, last Wednesday. Sunday she pooped at someone else's house, and yesterday she stayed dry all day! Yesterday evening she started telling me she had to go pee pee along with doing the whole process entirely by herself- from getting on the big potty all the way to washing her hands!!! Now I know she will still have accidents, but what progress we have made! It is the best possible birthday present I could receive!!! Thanks Gracie you are awesome!

Beaver Game Pics

So Sweet!
Uncle Gare and Clancy

Beaver Boy!

Us with the wonderful host and hostess!

Good Friends!

Beaver Birthday Bash!

My Grandma went all out, throwing me the best beaver bash birthday ever! I wish I had documented with pictures better, but they brought up their motor home and decked it all out for my beaver birthday! Cute OSU table cloths, flowers, a cute black and orange printed menu, a HUGE birthday sign along with black and orange everything! We had breakfast pregame including yummy memosas (sp?) courtesy of my parents. And then every game food under the sun including ribs and my favorite dips and chips! We even had beaver beer! (Well I didn't, but it was cool!) So thankyou everyone, I feel very loved! I have lots more pics but my computer is acting funny, so I'll post more tomorrow!

Beaver Birthday Bash!

Baby Gabe's first Beaver Game! He did great!

Grace lasted at the game longer than I did! (Although I don't know if it counts because she fell asleep!)

Gabe's cheering the Beavs on already!

Leslie-palooza is slowly winding down. We celebrated with family earlier this week on my real birthday, and then we really celebrated today at the beaver game! Thank you friends and family for hangin out, having a good time and for making me feel so special! And thank you to my papa and grandma for throwing such a great party! (And my parents and aunts and unlces who all contributed as well- I feel so loved!)

The morning started off shakey, rain pouring down very very hard, but I prayed for sun and we got it! The rain stopped by the time the game started and we had warm sun by party time!!! Thanks God!!!

We packed up the kids and headed out to the McKenzie River with my parents and brothers. We fished, rafted, ate junk and just played outside. The place we camped is called Roy's camp. It's a private camp set up by a cowboy named Roy, just outside of springfield next to the McKenzie river. Grace ran around and got dirty, got lots of fresh air and played hard from morning till too late at night. Gabe slept from 9 to 6 am one morning and we had so much fun. It was good family time and great to be outside! Enjoy all the pics below!

Hangin out with uncle garret

Trying out for man vs. wild! He actually started a fire with his hands! Video to come later

Outdoor kitchen

Dinner table

The makeup counter

Makin dinner together, in the outdoor kitchen, dutch oven enchiladas! Yum!

Makin muddy river cake with papa

White water rafting with daddy!

So gorgeous!

Such a big kid!

Our coffee maker, caamp coffee is the best!

Sugar cereal- a absolute must when camping

Puttin the girl to work!

Singin round the campfire! Koombyah!

Roy's Camp 2009

Gracie's first fish! She caught a "whopper!"

I did let my precious baby go on the river, in the drift boat and even in the raft!!!

She was all for fishing......as long as she didn't have to touch the fish!

Daddy and the whopper

And she even ate her fish that night!!