We Made It!

We just wanted to let all of our friends and family members know that we made it to Oregon. Hooray! Thanks to the help of my parents and Clinton's parents...we were able to make the 3,000 mile trip...in good fashion...and with relative ease. (though I never want to drive across Nebraska and Wyoming ever again). We are visiting family now and are loving our new house.
We REALLY miss our friends from Hershey. In more ways than one is Hershey 'the sweetest place one earth.' Love to you all!

Birthday and Going Away Party

Thanks to Oma, Carter had great Soccer Party gear to throw a fun birthday bash.  And since Carter and Anja are moving (along with the rest of us) we thought we would have a going away party too!

Here is Carter posing with the soccer sign.

This was so cool.  The kids had a great time sticking their heads threw it!  We got lots of fun pictures.  (I will email the moms soon with those)

And we thought it would be funny to take pictures of the babies too.  

Fischer is the boy on the left.

A picture with the group just before we began singing Happy Birthday to Carter.  (check out those TWO dinosaur cakes...what a cool mom!!!)

And a moment for the history books.  Carter is tasting a small piece (but a piece nonetheless) of chocolate frosting from his piece of the dinosaur cake.  Yes...he is making progress.  Hooray!

Before we move...

Before we leave Hershey we went to visit some local sites.  In this picture we are at the the Lititz Pretzel Factory.  Did you know that pretzels began in central PA?  Cool...except I can't eat a pretzel...gross.

On the Move

Hello Family and Friends--wanted to give you a quick update on our moving status.  We are packed...just finishing touches today and we will be set.  We are so excited to move to Oregon, but will miss our friends in Hershey SO MUCH!  We are leaving early next week to drive to Portland and will arrive at our house on Friday...unloading Saturday.  WOW!!  Since we will be busy..probably only 1 or 2 more post before we go.  Plus we have to pack our computer.   We look forward to seeing family and friends in Oregon!

Heat Wave

Last week we had GORGEOUS weather.  I'm talking in the 80s.  It was perfect.  Hot during the day and warm in the evening.  We got to put on our shorts and t-shirts and go outside.  In the evening we would go out and relax for a bit.  It was in the low 70s and was just lovely.  Fischer enjoyed playing in a blanket in the grass.

Carter was 'ready to roll' and zoomed around on his bike a ton!

Anja sported her sun hat...but it didn't keep her from getting a great tan! That's right...in the month of April we got great tans!  Even Alexis got a great tan...yeah!

I'm posting this on our blog because now the sun is gone.  It is wet wet wet.  Now don't me wrong, I'm all for the rain.  Puddles, cute raincoats, sweatshirts.  But when mother nature switches the weather all the time...it can get a bit confusing and tricky with the wardrobe.   I did check the forecast and it shows 70s during the week.  Yeah.  Perfect outside weather!