Day 28 -Back in play

I'm baack! Okay I hadn't gone completely dark, just extremely busy... we had a visit from mum which went by much too quickly as I'm sure she'll attest to that. It was a whirlwind visit with 5 days in Oregon, one of those days was spent celebrating Owen's 8th birthday...at LEGO brickfest in Portland. Also we managed to rent our house after interviewing a bunch of prospective tenants we decided on a really lovely family of 3 who will lease our house for a year to start with. I think they're a good fit, but it was tiring showing the house all the time especially trying to get the kids to keep their rooms tidy all the time. But we're done now on that front. I did get a new client out of the process though which is really nice. Classes are going well. We had a terrific easter. On Easter Saturday, there were 22 children here, 20 of which were all hunting easter eggs. Some 250 eggs were hidden for them to find but we had a lovely potluck brunch and it was a lovely day not too hot and not too cold. On Easter Sunday we spent a lovely day with Chrissy family, who had invited us to spend the day with them. Unfortunately for Darren, he had to work the entire weekend. Poor guy went to work on Sunday morning at 5.30am and came home Monday morning in time to say goodbye to the kids as they went to school at 7.45am.

We had a lovely last couple days with mum before she left. But before we knew it she was winging her way back across the ocean to the UK and life just continued to get crazy. On Thursday I accompanied Morgan's Kindergarten class on a field trip by school bus (my very first time on a school bus I might add) to the Underwood farms where we had an amazing day. We got to go on a tractor ride to the strawberry fields where we got pick our own strawberries before seeing a very cute animal show, followed by watching the teachers feed two very young calves. It was a really fantastic educational day for all concerned. Who knew goats had 4 stomachs. That pigs could grow over 500lbs. We also got to buy a ton of fresh veggies at the farm and it was so inexpensive. Unfortunately (or fortunately) by the time we were leaving a huge wind storm kicked up but we got on the bus before it got to be too horrible. Apparently it knocked all kinds of stuff over including our umbrella in our back yard.. it was the death of our umbrella unfortunately.. at least it's now one less thing for us to take with us to Portland. This past weekend we went to Joshua Tree for Mitch & Rena's wedding at the lovely house out in the desert. It was a terrific wedding with the most delicious food all day long.. Morgan must have eaten close to 20 mini beef wellington's or as she calls them "Meat rolls." I felt so stuffed because they served exquisite hors d'eouves all day then after the ceremony there was an open sushi bar, mexican bar and french cusine. All along with an open bar and last but not least a lovely petite fours tray followed by of course the Wedding cake.

All in all it was a really fun wedding, very casual, and very lovely. But now I'm beat and we start a new week tomorrow... starting with Owen's field trip... so I stop now. More later.... I'm Baaack...