WORK AND PARTY!!

The before picture

Friends and Family! We are inviting you to a work party for lots of work and lots of partying!!

Josh and I are putting in a backyard (currently it is a pile of dirt and rocks) and we need help!

Bring you, your family, and any yard tools you'd be willing to bring

(shovels, rakes, wheelbarrows etc.)

And feel welcome to bring your family and kids too! I'll have activities for the kids and lots of food and drinks for all!

May 16th is the date!!! Let us know if you can make it!

(I will post more detailed times soon)

Great Papa's Knee!

Grace's great papa just had knee replacement surgery, and when Grace heard he had an owee she decided to blow him a kiss to make it feel better! Hope you feel better soon Papa!

Easter and First Tea Party!

We had a big weekend this past weekend! Josh got to go fishing on saturday and even caught a few! Grace attended/hosted her very first "real" tea party, also on saturday. And Sunday we celebrated Easter and the hope it brings us! It was a fun filled and busy weekend!

Big girl bed and baking

We put up Grace's "new" bed tonight. We cleaned and painted my bed from when I was a kid. She loved it, and I like it, her room finally feels more like a real bedroom now. However, it was a little sad; she looked like such a kid, not a toddler, in it, I don't want her to grow up!

Spent the entire day finishing her dress, baking and cooking-so domestic I know!

I love to bake, but I might have over done my plans for this week. I think I will get it all done, at the expense of a not so clean house and possible sandwhiches for dinner several nights this week!

Here is what Im baking:

Cupcakes-for tribe

Macaroons- Grandmas b-day

Mini Scones and Mini muffins for our mini girls tea party this sat ( I will post pics)

Lemon bars-Easter

Coffee cake-Easter

Cheesecake-Easter

Ok that list doesn't actually look that long, but it is, Im already tired!!

loosing my mind, easter and dress making

Almost finished!!

View of Portland from the Pittock mansion, great place for a hike and a picnic!

I am loosing my mind!!! I know it's pregnancy brain or whatever you want to call it, and I even know why it happens (and supposedly I'm supposed to be eating more fish) but it's getting bad! This afternoon I put Grace down for her nap and was going to check my email, so I went to the bathroom where I had left the monitor that morning, and instead of grabbing her monitor I grabbed my deodorant and set it beside my computer like it was the monitor for like 1/2 an hour! It wasn't till I got up to do something else that I realized I had been "listening" to my deodorant for 30 minutes!!!! And this morning Grace and I went to Salem to do some grocery shopping, and I got lost 4 times!!! Now, those of you who know me may be laughing because I have zero sense of direction and get lost all the time. However, this was going to and from Costco, somewhere I've driven like a hundred times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyways! I'm sure I need to be drinking more water too because I'm getting a headache every time I stand up...not good!

I'm just about finished making Grace's dress!!!! It doesn't look amazing, it kind of has that "my mom made me this dress and it took her hours so I have to wear it even though it fits funny" look to it. But come Easter she'll be wearing it!!!!!

Also, just thought I'd stand on my soap box for a sec. As I was driving back into Independence this morning I passed a church with a memo board outside that said "Easter shouldn't be the only Sunday you rise to go to Church" !!!!!!!!! I had no words! I was appalled! Ok, I have a hope that everyone God has created would know him and seek him 365 days of the year (myself included) BUT Easter is one of those holidays that many who don't dawn the door of a church the rest of the year do. Whether out of guilt, tradition, family obligation or a true bit of soul or God searching.......and do you think that JESUS who chose prostitutes, crooks and un-educated fisherman to be his posse, his disciples, his first church, his best friends would greet people at the door of his Church any day of the year, like that???? With his arms crossed saying "where have you been all year long!" NO freaking way! He would have his arms open ESPECIALLY on Easter because on Easter we celebrate the cross (and the fact that he got off) and even on the cross he had his arms wide open! ARGGGG!

On another note Josh and I went to Portland this past weekend and stayed a night in a hotel and left Gracie with her papa and grammy. We were a bit nervous to leave because she had a fever, but she was great and had lots of fun. (In fact I cried once for her and she never cried for us!!)

While we were there Josh and I fell in love with a Portland we never new! We stayed in Hotel Deluxe a renovated older boutique hotel that has a classic Hollywood theme. It's near the pearl district and the knob hill neighborhood. It was great! We walked a ton and ate a ton and enjoyed what a unique city it is as well as what a unique state we live in! We've been to Portland many times but never to what I now consider the heart of it. It was Portland at its best, and I can't wait to go back! We came back ready to see Grace, and very refreshed! (p.s next time you're in Portland you have to go to Mother's for breakfast. It's in between 2ND and 3RD, maybe on Hawthorne? I don't remember but look it up, best breakfast I've ever had and the cutest little restaurant!! Ok I have to go make dinner, sorry so long! I am going to try to post pics but my camera is acting up!!!!

more pics sorry this will be out of order!

It was cold, we only lasted 10 minutes!

Gotta have your shades at the beach, even when its' raining!

Taking the girls out shopping!

A work in progress!!

updates

The lolipop is our new favorite treat

At the aquarium in seaside because it was pouring!

That infomous day.....

new favorite costume

Just a few quick going ons in the Pannebaker house!

-Potty training is nearly non-existent so life has pretty much gone back to normal

-We're starting some projects, painting my childhood bed to put together and give to grace, painting Gabe's room, and as soon as it's sunny starting operation back yard!!

-Went to the beach last weekend for a work confrence for Josh and to hang out with the family

-We're supposed to go to portland, just Josh and I, for a night and 2 fullish days this weekend, but Grace has a fever.......we'll see!

-Looking forward to Easter, been working on an easter dress for Gracie and its not great but actully starting to look like a dress!