No April Fools'

This was a perfect shot for this week. Sunday is Easter and I found the Easter Bunny. Jason and I ate at Lions Park today and he saw this little rabbit hop out of the bushes. I decided I wanted to see how close I could get to it, and I got a lot closer than Jason thought I would. I am under the impression that this rabbit is domesticated. Here's why:

1. It let me get this close. I am not zoomed in AT ALL. This photo was taken with my phone.
2. It was clean.
   
3. It's the colour it is. Most wild rabbits (at least, in this area) are light grey in colour.

Regardless, this little rabbit was adorable and I was so excited to be able to get a good picture of it. Happy Easter, everyone!

Hearts and Love and Stuff

Well, it's Valentine's Day. Ya know what we did? Nothing romantic, that's for sure! Kayla dressed for the occasion, though; this was one of the very first outfits I picked out for her after learning we were going to have a girl. We got it at Fred Meyer in Boise; Grandma Sevison bought it and it fit at the right time! The adorable onesie debuted today, the perfect day for it. The neck was made a little small (it was tight on Kayla and she's a small kiddo), so we left the top snap undone and folded the neck down a little. In this picture she's enjoying some quality time with Mommy and Daddy while they wait for lunch to be done. That yellowish blur is a piece of celery she'd been chewing on and had dropped right when I snapped the picture. She was very excited about Valentine's Day, as you can tell...

Baby's First Halloween

Today is Halloween. Just in case you hadn't noticed. We were invited over to Jake and Merrie Beth's house, and they said Chloe would be in a costume, and we were welcome to dress up if we wanted to. Jason and I didn't, but I wanted to put Kayla in something. I had picked out a cute Tigger outfit but it turned out to be too warm for the heavy fleece, so Mommy got creative and Kayla went to the "party" as a ballerina. Here are the cutest monkey and ballerina you'll ever see. Chloe's outfit even had a removable tail. So cute!

Independence Day

Today we went to church and then quickly changed, grabbed an ice chest or two full of food, and began the 1 1/2 hour drive to Enterprise, Oregon. There we had a delicious BBQ lunch at - pay attention now - Jason's sister's mother-in-law's house. For those of you who know names, that would be Rolie's mom. She lives in a beautiful little house out in the forest about five minutes from Wallowa Lake. It was nice and cool, and it was a quiet, beautiful little spot for a picnic 4th of July lunch. (Even if we did have to make a run for it indoors shortly after starting our burgers because the rain came pouring out of the sky as if someone were dumping buckets!) Here's a picture of the backyard where we started our corn and burger/hot dog BBQ:

After lunch we all kind of lounged around and relaxed...and then around 6 we headed up to the lake to reserve spots for the fireworks show. The scenery in the Wallowa Lake area is some of the most beautiful I've ever seen. Here's some of what we saw just on the 5-minute drive to the lake from Rolie's mom's house.

Since we got there and settled in around 6:30, we had quite a time to wait before the show started. (It didn't begin until 10 p.m.) So I enjoyed watching the scenery, people-watching (quite entertaining), and shooting some photos. The people next to us had the most adorable little puppy. Somehow I managed to catch him looking at me after he'd climbed up into one of their chairs.
Of course, before the real fireworks started, everyone had to shoot off their personal ones. Jason, his mom and I ended up moving to higher ground, because we were choking on fireworks smoke as well as cigarette smoke, and it was super loud. Before it got too bad, though, I snapped a shot I really like (except it's a bit blurry) of some kids enjoying their fireworks.

And here is one of my favourites, taken shortly before the show began (you might want to click on it and view it full-size):

The fireworks show was supposed to be "unique" - something never before done in North America. I'm not sure what was so fabulous about it - it was a good fireworks show, but there was nothing phenomenal about it. The show was about 20 minutes long and was quite beautiful. Here's my attempt at capturing some of it: