Day Trip for Grace

My brother's family just moved and we are so excited that they are a whole hour closer to us. they were previously in the Tacoma/Seattle area, and now they are in Eugene! Maybe not a huge difference but it seems so much less daunting to just take a day trip to see cousins!

We made our first visit this last week to celebrate Grace's 7th birthday and to check out their new house. My photos are random. But Whatevs

We left early in the morning, my boys were so excited that it wasn't even hard to get them to wake up and get dressed! Whew...(I'm dreading pulling them out of bed for school) Anyway, We arrived a bit early so I let them get some wiggles out in the open mall area before taking them into the painting pottery place! I was a little worried about taking my 3 bulls into a china shop so to speak,  so we waited until the last minute to go in.

Thankfully the pottery shop had a toy baket that Edwin was pretty interested in for awhile while my big boys worked on their projects.
Everett! He used to cry when I looked at him! I'm so happy he likes me now! At least tolerates me!

My boys made ice cream bowls, apparently there are no photos of Miles or the birthday girl. I told you the photos are random. 

Edwin was losing it and needing a nap so we left before the others were done so we could take a drive and Edwin could sleep. We explored James and Elizabeth's new neighborhood, eventually when Edwin's brothers woke him up, we got out to play in the front yard...and put the kids to work!

My boys were in heaven. They love their cousins and look up to them so much. 

 We ate lunch, and birthday brownies, took out a dementor pinata, and opened gifts. Each of my boys had picked out a puppy stuffed animal for Grace. And then there was tons of playing inside and outside and I even got to visit with James and Elizabeth for awhile. Can't wait to go down again in a couple weeks for their new baby boy to be born!