Easter & Jordy's 6th Birthday

We were so excited to be in California for Easter and Jordy's 6th Birthday!!

Had to get a picture with the Easter Bunny!
Coloring Easter eggs with cousin Emma
Daddy and Jordyn working on an egg together

Gavin just wanted to eat the crayons, but when you're that cute...you can do whatever you want!

Emma did so good trying to write on her eggs.

Jordyn's Birthday breakfast...French Toast and strawberries

Opening her present from Mommy, Daddy, and Ash

A new backpack and lots of clothes for school

Easter Egg Hunt #2 at Philly and Jessi's

They were on a mission, didn't want to stop to smile for the camera

This precious one was just looking for a place to lay down, she was quite the trooper!

The Edison boys sure do make cute girls...

Emma's counting her money from the egg hunt!

Now it's time to sing Happy Birthday! Jordy was so excited her birthday was on Easter this year. She doesn't like cake, so she finally picked brownies...then didn't even eat one. We should've just put candles on biscuits or garlic bread!!

Jordy shares her birthday with Darrick's Grandma, Meme!

*Here's some video's of the day*

Ashlyn calls Hershey Kisses, "Hershey Kershey's" and I just love when she says it!

Easter Egg Hunt

Onna and Papa got Jordy an electric scooter for her birthday! She loves it and is a little too comfortable on it. She's a dare devil!!

WE'RE MOVING!!!!!!

This moving company will be here in 6 days to pack us up and move us back home. We are so excited and on the countdown! Can't wait to be down the street from Philly, Jessi, and Emma and I can't wait to be just houses away from my 3 favorite people and my girls best friends!! Not to mention all of our other family and friends that will be within 15 minutes of us, we are on cloud 9 right now.

Sock Hop

Jordyn's school sent home a flyer that they were having a Sock Hop dance. I talked to Jordyn about it and she said she didn't want to go. So that Friday came and it was the night of the Sock Hop. Jordyn came home from school at 3:00pm and said, "Mommy tonights the Sock Hop at school and I really want to go. All my friends are going and I want to go see them!" I told her it started in 3 hours and you were supposed to dress up. She said, "Please, I really want to go." So I called Darrick and told him I wasn't cooking dinner and we were having hot dogs and hamburgers at the Sock Hop, so hurry home. I threw these outfits together and the girls were so excited to say the least!

Ashlyn said, "Jordy you have to introduce me to your friends. You say, this is my sister Ashlyn"
They enjoyed their dinner there, then did the costume contest, then danced their socks off! Jordyn is a social butterfly and Ashlyn stuck pretty close to her Daddy and I the entire time.

Mission Accomplished

We bought Jordyn a new dresser and my plan was to put it together today.
The girls helped me pull everything out of the box.

They really loved the styrofoam and started building them like blocks. As soon as I pulled out all of the screws and pieces, I started second guessing whether I could put this together.

Here's all the different parts

The girls really enjoyed playing in the box as well.

Here's all the pieces and the directions say no hand drill...great I have to screw everything in by hand.

Meanwhile Jordyn gets in the box and Ashlyn props her against the dresser

She's stuck and needs my help

But at least she's still happy!

Ok 3.5 hours into it and this is what I've done so far.

I got Jordyn off to school and Ashlyn wanted to help so bad. So she was my nail holder. She was ready with one whenever I needed it!

Here it is after 5 hours of hard labor. Now I only have to assemble the drawers and I'm done!

Wow, I finished it! After 6 hours it's done.

*When Jordy got home from school and I was carrying the box downstairs I got a great idea!*

Ashlyn was afraid to go down, but being the nice Mom that I am I told Jordyn to just let go. I knew she'd love it if she tried it. You can tell by her face that she's not sure until it's over if she liked it!

Now the girls decided to go together! We sent Daddy a video at his work and he called to say that they could really hurt themselves. I knew he wouldn't approve, that's why I sent him the video after we were done and unharmed.

Harlem Globetrotters

Darrick saw that the Harlem Globetrotters were in town and he thought the girls would enjoy going to see them. So he got us tickets and we had a blast!

Ready for it to start
Ashlyn has her arm around her cotton candy...as you can see she's very happy about getting it!

The girls enjoyed looking through the binoculars at the players.

Jordyn was even checking out people in the stands!

So happy to have her cotton candy and her Daddy!

"Globey" the mascot

Warming up

Ashlyn kept folding herself up in the seat and it looked so funny.

We all had a great time! Another great idea by Daddy!!

Oregon Wine Tasting

For Valentine's Day my sweet hubby took Lindsay, Nicole, and I wine tasting. I really wanted to see the wineries before we move back to California, so I was so excited to go. We had a company called The Grape Escape take us around and John the driver was awesome!

We took the Wheatland Ferry across the Willamette River to get to the wineries. This was my first time on a ferry, so many new experiences!
We're aboard and ready to cross the river

Nicole, Myself, and Lindsay at Arcane Winery. This was a small private winery with excellent wine. We all bought a bottle there, it was so good. Since it was Valentine's weekend every winery had an awesome spread of appetizer's. Between the wine and all the yummy food, we were pretty much in heaven ALL day!

The second winery we went to was called Methven. This place was beautiful! Allen the owner (in the picture above) is a dentist during the week and makes wine in his free time. We loved Allen! He took us on a special barrell tasting tour. It was a first for all of us. We had never tasted wine straight out of the barrell. It was good, you could definitely taste the oak! They had gourmet cheeses and the best Rib Roast ever! They had a live band and gourmet chocolates. It doesn't get any better than that!!

Darrick enjoying his wine and looking at all the barrells

Nicole feeling at home with all the barrells

Nicole and Lindsay at the last winery called Hauer of the Dauen (pronounced Hour of the Dawn). This was our least favorite winery. The wine was ok. They let you taste at least 15 different ones and you can bet, us girls tasted them all. How else will you know if there is one that you like?

Here we are about to head back home. We had to get a picture with the escaping grape! Thanks Honey for an awesome Valentine's day, I had a blast with you and my two friends in Oregon!!

Valentine's Invitational Gymnastics Meet

Warming up as a group

Stretching

Getting their metals

So proud!

It's a pink star with sparkles and it says Gymnastics on it...Ashlyn loves it!

*Here are the video's of the girls doing their different routines*