Russians are out for us!

For those of you who haven't heard, our Acura was stolen again last week. This is the second time in two months. In fact, it has just barely been a month since we got it back after all of the repairs the first time! The policeman that came and looked at it the first time said that Russians from Vancouver, Washington come down to steal cars, thus the title of this blog. Sorry if any of you are of Russian decent! Last time, our car was found three days later in an apartment complex a few blocks from us in Wilsonville with a couple thousand dollars in damage. We actually just hope this time to not get it back, as we now feel the car must be cursed! Either that or we are cursed, as the car has been broken into twice since October, and stolen twice since February! We'll keep you updated on any new developments in this area!

Animal Fun

For Family Home Evening last night, our lesson was on being thankful for animals. Landon chose the opening song - Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam. We told the story of the creation and of Noah and the ark, sang some songs about animals (In the Leafy Treatops, Old McDonald, The Itsy Bitsy Spider), looked at pictures of animals, and Landon's favorite, acted like different animals. We were cows, horses, pigs, dogs, cats, monkeys, and birds. We tried duck, duck, goose, but Landon didn't really catch on to that one. He wanted to play Ring Around the Rosies, so we ended up doing that a few times instead. It was a fun night.

Tulip Festival

On Friday, Landon and I invited our friends Rebecca and little Leah to go with us out to the annual Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival. Landon sure enjoyed having a buddy in the backseat with him on the drive down to Woodburn. He and Leah kept laughing, but Rebecca and I weren't quite sure what the joke was! The tulips were amazing! There were rows and rows of gorgeous tulips, all different colors. They also had some fun activities for little kids, including a slide and little playground in haystacks, wooden shoes the kids could dance on a hard wooden surface in, and Landon's favorite, a water pump and trough type set up you could race ducks in (hard to explain - see the picture). It all went pretty well until the end when Landon was walking along the tulip fields and stepped right into a huge mud puddle! He had muddy pants and shoes, which didn't make him too happy. Luckily we were almost done by then! It was a fun first visit to the tulip festival.