Our trip to OMSI

The Oregon Museum of Science has a really great kids section that Saralyn, Emma and Nana took us to last week. The kids all had a blast!

Maya LOVED getting her hands all covered in paint. She spent most of the time moving her hands around in the gooey

paint tins then she did painting....I can't say that I blame her. it is GREAT being a kid!


Okay, so Kai is OBSESSED with the alphabet, but he enjoys sand, water and balls. So to have all three in one place for him to play with. I thought he was going to have a heart attack. Any parent know what I mean when I say he was running around from one spot to the next as if it would all just disapear soon. It was like Christmas mornig for him. I loved watching the pure, simple joy in his and Maya's eyes. Addison, on the other hand, sure enjoyed a nice warm nap snuggled up with her daddy.

Evil but so Funny!

Sometimes, in parenting, you need to do things that may be considered slightly evil by some parenting standards in order to spice up the mundane and to get a good laugh...... This may happen a little too much in our household.
I only hope they won't resent us later in life.



Okay, so Maya put the dress on him.....I, however, am responsible for making him pose and taking the picture.

Anthony thought it would be funny to put one of Addison's newborn diapers on Kai.....Kai, on the other hand, was NOT amused.....

Happy Birthday Kai!!!

Kai is three! Happy birthday buddy! Of course his birthday was an ABC theme. He loves his letters. I made him a big kix treat K for breakfast and had a bunch of new fridge letter magnets for him to wake up to and Kai was udderly thrilled.


Maya and Kai helped me make the yummy chocolate birthday cake. They, of course, had a blast licking the bowl.
We had a fun bbq birthday party with the Strehlow's, Grandma June, Amy, Aaron and Daisy. We had a blast and Kai LOVED opening all of his ABC and Word World presents.

Home Sweet Home

Here it is....our soon to be new home. We just signed the papers on Saturday and it should be final and ready to move into around the first of June. It has been a long hard search but Anthony and I feel really good and excited about this home. We are excited to make some fun and wonderful memories here. I was only able to do a "drive-by" photo shot but will for sure be taking and posting more as soon as we move in. YIPPEE!!!!!

Leading the music

Maya loves to pretend that she is leading the music in Primary. She does such a great job. Kai obviously gets a little bored with it. Check out his facial expressions....he is such a crack up!

House Hunting

We have been spending A LOT of time in the car lately driving around, looking for houses. Most of the time it is just me and Anthony while Nana has be so great to watch the kids for us. But this day, Nana had to go somewhere and so the kids were stuck with us in the car. On one of our stops, Anthony had to go in to look at some paper work and so we were stuck out in the car.....BORED! Maya found the camera and asked if she could take some photos. I usually don't let her play with my precious camera but I was desperate so I let her and we acutally had a ton of fun.



Kai was all tuckered out. Looking for a home is hard work!

Our new Mission

It was a beautiful day outside and so the kids and I decided to drive and find a park. As we were looking around in the car to find one, Maya said "I know mom, we should start a mission to find the best park in our new home." Great idea Maya! So it is official, the Pabst's are on a mission to find the best park in the greater Portland area. This park was just down the street a ways from Nana and Papa's. After we played for a while and started heading up to the car Maya said "that was fun and all but I think we can do better!" Oh that girl kills me.

Kai HATES swings. I thought that maybe this big swing would be okay.....but obviously NOT!