Easter

Okay so I know I am a little late but I have to post some Easter Pics also our camera had to be sent in so I had to use my friends camera at times anyway we had a great Easter the sat. before we invited some friends to do a big Easter Egg hunt and since it was RAINING we decided to have it at the church which actually worked out great! so Our family and our good friends the Cowies, and a another great family in the ward the Phillips got together the fun part all of our families have 2 boys around the same ages so the kids had so much fun. First we dyed Easter Eggs which Hudson did about 2 and Payton loved it and would have done all of them if he could I however was in heart attack mode with Payton and the dye so once Zac took over I was able to watch and enjoy him dying the eggs:)

(three musketeers: Ben and Spencer Cowie, Hudson)

(picture sent from my phone)

We had a wonderful Easter , we got the opportunity to watch conference and be together as a family, and celebrate what Easter is really about Our Savior Jesus Christ and knowing that HE LIVES!

Our life in Newport so far....

Okay so Here are some random pictures of our life in Newport! We love it and I promise I will get some pictures of our place I am just waiting to have it all set and decorated (it takes time:) but in the mean time here are some fun pics of in-door soccer, beach, and getting settled in

The boys love to color on their desks I just love this pic too cute!!

Hudson enjoying his and Payton's Toy room We LOVE having a toy room!!

The boys helping dad put the bed together what hard little workers

Playing on the four wheeler with our good friends the Cowies!

It has been great they have 2 boys as well and we hang out all the time we are loving all the new things we get to do in Newport! and loving the friends we are meeting

Hudson loved In-door Soccer and he was on a team with his friends Ben and Spencer Cowie so much fun!

Payton CAN'T WAIT till he can play Soccer he is always ready to go and play when they have a break!

Hudson and Mom at Nye beach its about 2-3 minutes from our house we LOVE IT!!!!

I know this is soo late but here is Christmas

Payton & Hudson's first time sitting on Santa's lap at our ward Christmas Party!

Hudson was ready to visit the Santa Claus at Bridgeport Mall Payton fell asleep and wasn't in the mood to sit on Santa's Lap

This year it was the "on" year with my family so everybody was together and the first night was Gingerbread Houses soooo much fun and we had our famous BINGO game which always has great prizes(DVD's, cash, gift cards, and chocolate bars which I always end up getting grrr.)

A great friend of our family was able to come and do a family photo shoot! We were all so happy with the pictures and the weather cooperated with us it was COLD and Foggy but turned out beautiful!

Christmas Eve my parents decided we were such a big group we also had my cousin and his wife and cute kids come so we had Dinner at the church and it was great we didn't have to worry about decorations getting ruined or kids getting into stuff very stress free! The kids played with toys and basketballs and Payton of course loved to walk along the wall crazy boy it gave me a little heart attack but he LOVED IT.

We opened up PJ'S and got ready for Santa to come!

When the boys came down the stairs this is the first thing they saw a present from Mom and Dad they LOOOVED IT! it was fun to do a gift for the both of them to SHARE!!

then on to what Santa brought Payton loved his slide

and Hudson well he was sooooo excited its the only thing he told Santa he wanted he loved his Batman house!

Hudson kept telling my mom that he wanted a "hamster" he says"not a real one a pretend one" so my mom among the crazy's was out looking for a zhu zhu pet before Christmas and she found one whoohoo his name is Friday and he is in the pink part of the house in the pic.

Matthew and Hudson and Talmadge playing don't spill the beans so much fun! The rest of the day was relaxing and playing Rock Band (a family gift)

Kim, mom and Britney and I went shopping the day after Christmas gotta love Washington Square mall (mom was taking the pic!)

This is how we started the New Year!

WE WERE MOVING!

Jan. 2nd we were loading up the moving truck and ready to head out of Tigard, Oregon

We had a great amount of help from our ward and will miss them all. We had so much help from our new ward it took about 3 hours to pack it all and about 30 minutes to un-pack it. We were truly amazing with how much help we received and we are so excited to be apart of our New ward!! Which is in.... NEWPORT, OREGON

Zac was accepted a job offer with a company called Road and Driveway where he is the lab manager and over seeing three rock quarries. He is enjoying his job so much and we feel truly blessed for it. We are enjoying our ward and new friends that we have met, Hudson is already in a Pre-school and absolutely loving it!! We also were able to sign him up for indoor soccer which he is having fun with. It may not have ever been our idea to move to the coast but we are so grateful for this opportunity and we feel blessed and at home here in Newport.

And yes I still haven't posted any pictures from Christmas and that is still to come when I have more time because it will be a long post, but I just thought I would let you all know what we have been up to this past month.

Finally Pics from our Utah Trip!

Our Utah trip was soooooo much fun! And soooooooo needed!! it had been about 2 years since we have been able to visit so we were so excited to get in the car the week before Thanksgiving. We first stopped in Boise and we were able to stay with my Brother Matthew and his wife Kim and their cute little boy Talmadge (thanks matt and kim) Unfortunately we didn't take pics then the next morning we were back on the road again and headed to Utah! Zac and I have realized that we need to take more pics we def. didn't on this trip I guess we were just having so much fun .

We went with one of our best friends The Campbells to Pirate Island the kids loved it the place was all done like a Pirate Town it made me feel like I was in a restaurant at Disneyland.

Payton right before this pic liked the eye patch but apparently didn't like it so much!

We went with Zac's Mom Cassie to Kangaroo Zoo and had a blast! Thanks mom! The slides were huge Hudson and Payton were in heaven jumping around on everything, what a great place and good exercise the slept so good afterwards.

I was able to stop and have lunch with one of my good friends Mel she and her Hubby just opened up a Jimmy Johns (My favorite sandwich shop) she also owns a Cold Stone down a few stores so she was so Sweet to treat our family to lunch and Ice Cream (love me some cold stone)

I had so much fun catching up with her I am so excited for her to have Her little boy Jay Marley Griffing in Jan.!

We were able to stay with Zac's brother Jesse and Elona and their little boy Preston! The boys had so much fun playing together. Preston has a jump house and they all had a blast getting all their energy out! (thanks Jesse and Elona we had so much fun)

Zac took a bunch of pictures from the trip in this format so here are the boys in the bounce house. (I know its hard to see but its frame by frame and the only pics I have of them playing in the bounce house)

We went over to spend the day with Zac's sister jen and her darling kids Kayva and Beau. We barely saw them they were in the basement the whole time having so much fun! I was able to catch up and talk jen's ear off (thanks jen soooo much love ya)
That night we were all able to go to Texas Roadhouse for dinner with jesse and Elona and Jen and her Hubby Cody! We had such a great night laughing and talking (thanks mom for watching the kids for us)
And of course we had to visit the Hospital the second to last day!

The story: So we were getting ready to go to breakfast with some of our best friends and in getting into our van , Zac pushed the door open button on the remote and without knowing Hudson pulled the handle it beeped so Zac pushed the button again and it caught his finger in the door. Now you would think with the doors being automatic that should be pressure sensitive it would open back up; but it didn't so I all the sudden heard a squeal like a Siren (I had never heard him scream like that) So anyways I ran in to ask my mother in law what she thought of his hand, she thought he would be okay we let ice sit on it for about an hour and then took him in to the hospital. It was actually nice we were out of there with in a hour which doesn't usually happen (thank you Orem hospital)

They took 3 x-rays and told us that he fractured his phalange bone on the x-ray it looked just like a little crack poor guy! So they wrapped it in a splint and with blue tape (Hudson thought that was pretty cool looking and "Spiderman blue") he only wore it 3 weeks and it is now "buddy taped" almost done 4 weeks for a 3 1/2 year old is a long time!

He woke up the second day and told me "his finger was all better now" I had to explain to him he had a little bit longer to wear it but he did well with it.

We left on sat. headed back to Boise and I got to watch Talmadge and Payton, Hudson ,Zac and my brother Matthew went to a Hockey Game that night and had a blast! (bummer no pictures:(

Thank you to all the houses we stayed at we had the BEST Vacation we Love and miss you all!