I am so sick of this Global Warming!

How do you go from short sleeve playin' some ball to this? Molly worked yesterday so the kids helped me with some yard work. We dug up some shrubs and small trees and moved them to different locations. After all the hard work the sun was a shinning so we played some various games with the kids that I will use when I start coaching T-ball. We had a good time until I noticed the dark clouds and the temp. starting to drop rapidly and then all of sudden big time snow and ice storm. This week is suppose to be high 50's-60's with sun.....we shall see?

Spring Skiing?

I purchased a spring ski pass from Timberline early this month and have yet to see any spring/sun. I went to work real early this morning and then snuck away for about 4 hours of complete awesomeness! By far the best snow I've every skied on/through. It was probably what dad was used to skiing at Targhee or Jackson Hole. I'm hoping dad might get excited and finally go skiing with me here soon. Anyway, I skied in 18 degree weather with a foot of new snow, which felt like flour between my ski's. I hit a few runs/first tracks in thigh deep powder. Sorry for rubbing it in on any skiers reading this (dad), but it was an epic 4 hours I will not forget. Once we finally get some spring conditions we'll probably all hit the slopes as a family again. Living an hour from Mt. Hood is nice.

Jessy's party

We had a great time in California this past weekend. I can't decide what the best part of the trip was, these are my options: my dad made us a delicious breakfast everyday, I got a haircut by my favorite hairstylist- Francesca, I found the perfect pair of jeans at Planet Funk (I didn't buy them because they cost $200 plus tax, so sad, but I can still hope), the weather was fabulous, sunny and approx. 75-85 degrees the whole time, and Jessy's CD release party was a blast. I styled her hair for her, and she did my makeup just like old times. Her party was at Spaghettini's Grill and Jazz club (it's one of the locals favorite for live jazz and good food). Jessy's performance was excellent. She played with a cover band that she met on the smooth jazz cruise called DW3. Jeremy took some video so we'll try to put some clips on our blog if we can figure it out. Anyway, we had lots of good times and even missed the kids a little bit.

Kids, Teeth and the Tooth Fairy!

Mom wanted me to post a few pics of Alia with her front teeth finally out! We should have taken a picture of the last top tooth before Molly pulled it out. She kind of resembled those hillbilly characters on the Simpsons (Cleatus). I had to make a quick trip over to Kennewick yesterday and we forgot to let the tooth fairy know about Alia's tooth. So the tooth fairy came while Alia was at school but she didn't find her quarters until last night. Caleb was so excited at the prospects of $ and the tooth fairy that he wanted us to pull his tooth out as well. I was about to go get the pliers but I guess he wasn't that excited! Sorry Riley and Sarah for not calling ya'll but I was pretty busy doing some training with the Kennewick group. I did have some good pizza at a place called Hubby's? Nothing else really exciting going on. I got the call from the local little league and I have to coach Caleb's T-ball team. I'm not really excited about it but whata going to do?

Reno

It's been awhile since we've posted anything so sorry for that. We returned late last night from our quick trip to Reno to see Molly's sister Jessy perform with Michael Bolton. It was a little more driving than I expected but very nice weather and nice country to be driving through. The picture above is backstage after the show. Jessy and the band were outstanding! Molly's already seen them perform but not a full show, so it was pretty cool. We had great seats 8 rows back from the stage. The show was at the Nugget Hotel/Casino, where we also stayed. The kids enjoyed the swimming and seeing their Aunt Jessy. The hotel was decent but we all smelled like smoke so needless to say it's nice to be home. We even got signed copies of Jessy J's CD! I thought for sure we'd get the family discount but no such luck (ha)! I'll let Molly add more about our adventures...

We're planning on having a b-day party for the kids April 5th (Sat) here in Portland at Chuck E. Cheese. Molly will be sending out invitations. We'd love to have the cousins come but we understand it's a bit of a drive for everyone.

Late,

BTW - Molly mentioned something about the Foo Fighters, well Jessy knows the girlfriend of the keyboard/piano player for the Foo's touring band and she's going to see if we might be able to get backstage for the Portland concert... we shall see.