Austism Walk

This past weekend we attended the annual Autism Awareness Walk at Oaks Amusement Park in Portland in support of team "Remarkable Ryan".  We are honored to be a part of such an important event and represent an amazing little boy!  After the walk, we took in some of the rides at the park.  Gabe was alittle disappointed that he could not go on all the crazy, scary rides due to the fact that I get motion sick very easily and he is too young to go by himself.  We decided Dan will have to come with us next year so they can hit the big rides!



The boys found the train tracks during the walk.  Ian leads the pack with Ryan and Gabe bringing up the rear.



Gabe's Room

Dan and Gabe spent the second week of spring break in Pendleton for their annual spring visit while I stayed back and enjoyed some "alone" time.  Even though I was working all week, I managed to get quite a bit done around the house.  Once again, it was time to update Gabe's room.  I had fun transforming it into a good space that he can play and organize all his stuff.  He was very surprised when he got home.  He kept asking "where did you get all this stuff?"  I told him that most of the stuff he already had, it was just piled up so he couldn't see it.  He has spent alot more time in his room playing this week.

There is alot of storage now, with room to grow. 

Easter Fun

I do not recall an Easter Weekend where the weather was this beautiful and temps climbed to 70 degrees.  We started off the weekend with an Easter Egg Hunt at the Philomath Middle School on Saturday morning.  Gabe was instructed to run right past all the first eggs and head for the back where the pickin was easy...and that's exactly what he did!  It took him no time to score his allotted 15 eggs.

Later on in the afternoon, I set up all the egg coloring stuff on the patio and he got right to work coloring eggs.  Brown eggs take longer to color so you have to be very patient.  Note to self for next year: get some chickens that lay white eggs :)

On Sunday morning, the Easter Bunny (aka Dan) showed up with an Easter basket and hinted that there might be some more eggs hidden around the house, so Gabe, now being an egg hunting expert, collected those right up.

The Loot