Ava's Championship soccer & Ellie

Ava's Columbia Premier soccer team had a great weekend in Beaverton.  Saturday, they beat Bridge City in the semi-final of the Founder's Cup Tournament.

Proud family afterwards!

Today they won the Championship game 1-0 in overtime against Apex.

These are the defensive players.

And our favorite, Ava, played so well!

I have add these pics of Ellie from last week,

 

Her first time in the hammock, she was pretty relaxed.

And wearing her hat, the bright sun had been bothering her in the swing and stroller.

A & H lunch, Ellie, cousins

We had lunch with the girls on Wednesday.  Heard all about their fun Spring Break trip to Florida and about Harper's first day on the job at Firehouse Subs.  

Ellie visited us a couple of times, 

and the cousin gang was together yesterday.

 

Easter 2026

We had a wonderful Easter at Cathy and Bob's.

Big and little cousins this year!  Jillian is holding Hazel, Brock and Kaylee's little girl.

Harper has Jo, Ty and Deb's baby, and Bridget has Grant.

Challenging getting a good picture of them all.

Egg hunt, Harper helping Hattie.

Josie's bag was full when she was done!

Looking through their stuff.

Josie in the background was excited to get K-Pop socks!

The adult egg hunt/craft challenge.

This one was third place.

First place winner-Dan told a great story about the Easter 

bunny looking for the gold.

Second place, James' story was about an Easter bunny war at the beach,

if I heard it right!

The kid's discussing who should win.

Giving out trophies.

Next up was the kid's egg roll.

The little girl's playing with their prizes.

Adult egg roll.

Cale won, Dan's Step-Mom Wendy was second and Ava third.

Jillian and Bridget won the raw egg toss.  Ava and Harper

did better than they've ever done before.

It was a very warm and fun Easter!

And me with my favorite guy. 

 

Hattie & Ellie

I had some playtime with Hattie on Tuesday, she's such a sweetheart.

Ellie is sitting up pretty well now, but she would much rather be exploring.

She loves these rings, takes them off and throws them.

 

Ellie

With the sunshine yesterday we were able to take Ellie out for some swing time.

Allissa's picture of Ellie in the tub-looking more like Daddy than ever!

 

Ellie, Ava and Harper

Ava and Harper came up Saturday.  We did some thrift shopping and then went to see Project Hail Mary at the Theatre Pub, it was really good.

Sunday we painted with an Easter theme, except Papa's painting-it looks like something under the sea.

This was a worried Ellie on Friday, she loves to tip over the toy basket, but this time something went wrong and she was in it.   

 

Rielee, Parker, Ellie

Rielee and Parker at a birthday party for Des on Sunday.  

Rielee is on Spring break and working at Red Leaf.  She told us how her classes are going.  Of the three nursing clinicals she has - pediatrics, labor and delivery, and NICU, she prefers labor and delivery.

She'll graduate in December.

Laury loaned us Hattie's bouncer, Ellie really likes it!