Owl Pellets and River Fun

 One of the benefits of having a mother who is a teacher is that you get to dissect owl pellets after school if your mother dissects owl pellets with her students.

 Look at this really long tooth Rachel found.

 This is the son of another teacher. He LOVED finding bones inside his pellet.  He was entertained for quite some time.

 Here is his big sister. She wasn't entertained for quite as long.  Soon the girls were playing while the younger brother continued to dig through pellets.

 Erin Joy made a big glue mess all over her paper. Typical.

 This was the finished product of the young kindergarten scientist. He was determined to find every bone and he did.

 Today we enjoyed playing at our church's property by the river.  My girls were thrilled with the new playground structure.

 Last year, they could both fit in the vomit comet, but not this year.  It was a tight squeeze.  They are growing up so fast. Sigh.

 Never noticed this little waterfall before...or maybe I just forgot about it.

 The "I Love You" rock.

 Rachel spent most of her time breaking rocks. I remember breaking rocks as a child.  I was always looking for gold or a geode or something....

Tulips with Grandpa and Grandma

Rachel took this picture.  She took several pictures.  I think she did a wonderful job.  Erin Joy took several pictures too.  She thought it was really funny to take pictures of people's backside. She'd take a picture and giggle.  Later, I deleted her pictures to save us from embarrassment...she took a picture of my backside too!

 We took Grandpa and Grandma to the tulips expecting to not see much because the festival ended April 39th.  Many of the flowers have already been cut, but there were still enough flowers left for beautiful pictures. The weather was fabulous and there was NO TRAFFIC to the tulips fields! It was great! My girls were pretty good sports about posing for pictures again:)

 Another picture from Rachel...

 Rachel took this picture too...she didn't notice the bee until I pointed it out to her.

 The field behind us had already been cut.

 We sure have had a great weekend with Grandma and Grandpa.  We wish they lived closer so we could play with them every day.

Fun Times with Grandma and Grandpa

 Grandpa and Grandma took a little trip to Yosemite to see the Dogwoods in bloom.  They drove up the Oregon coast and then came to the Seattle area to see us for the weekend.  We began our day at the temple.

 Grandpa trying to get a good picture of the temple...

 The gardens are always so beautiful...especially in the spring.

 We stopped briefly at Carkeek Park to play before going to a Mariner's game.

 What a great game!! Felix Hernadez only gave up one hit and the Mariner's offense came through for a great 7-0 victory for the Mariners. Nice!!

 My favorite part of the game is the garlic fries. Yummy!!!  Check out the long lines for fries...other people must feel the same way I do:)

We've had a great weekend with our grandparents!!  We can't wait to visit them this summer.