Visiting the Children's Museum of Eastern Oregon in Pendleton

Welcome to The Homemaking Party! Today is Kynthia's birthday---she's 6 years old! We are having a great time celebrating our fourth oldest daughter.

Cainan (13) was given a free pass to the Children's Museum of Eastern Oregon and since the activities are mainly geared toward younger kids, he decided to take Brenna, 4, for a special day out last Friday.

The pretend grocery store was Cainan's favorite part of CMEO when he was little and Brenna loved it too!

I sat at a table in this pizza shop and wrote letters while they played restaurant. 

The Alice In Wonderland tea party room had a verrrry low ceiling! Ha!

When they'd played for a couple hours, I let Cainan pick out a souvenir for Brenna. He chose a wooden flute and they each got a snack. It was a great day out!

We are going home in 29 days!!! I can't wait! Did I tell you all we got a house? I can't remember...but we did! It's gonna be great. I can't wait to show you all around!

Taking Daddy Home

We had a great visit with Daddy over two weeks, but had to take him back to Boise to meet his plane on Friday. We stopped at the top of the Blue Mountains to get some photos.

This picture doesn't come close to capturing the vastness of the mountains and canyons behind us! We were standing at the edge of a very steep drop off. We had fun imagining the early pioneers, as well as later travelers, making their way down the mountains into the valleys below. The freeway wasn't put in until the mid 20th century. Amazing!

We've got about five weeks left until we head home. Can't wait!

Happy Anniversary to Us!

Good morning! Welcome to The Homemaking Party! We have really been enjoying our time with Daddy these past few days. He will go home on Friday and the kids and I will stay here in Oregon for six more weeks. There's good news though...we've got a house! Yay! I'm so excited to move into our new home!

Hope everyone is having a lovely summer!