The Kern's

What a great weekend!   We have been waiting for the weather to get better before taking William to Multnamoh Falls, which is what he wanted to do for his birthday.  This last weekend we knew Saturday would be the perfect day for it.  Ernie & I decided to make a weekend of it and stay the night in Portland with William.  We left Saturday morning between 7 & 8 am, which put us at the falls about 10:30 or so with stops.  This hike was crazy, 1 mile up the mountain with 11 switchbacks.  The climb was tough but worth it. From the top of the falls. On the way back down it was a little easier to think about taking pictures so here are a few of the falls when we were on the trail on the way down. The thing that made this hike so worth it was how thankful William was that we had brought him and done the hike with him.  He thanked us 3 or 4 times coming down the trail. After the hike we at lunch in the car and headed int...

Dakota came down for the weekend and we all had a great visit with him.  Ernie had the day off on Friday and I was very greatful to him for driving to Ellensburg (2.5 hours away) to pick up Dakota for me.  Friday night Dakota and I went by ourselves to dinner at one of the Mexican resturants in town to celebrate his 16th birthday (which was 3/28/11)!  It was fun with just the two of us and gave us a great chance to visit. Saturday morning Dakota did a great job cleaning out my Van while the rest of us worked in the yard getting the garden going for the year and moving the strawberry bed.  Now everytime I climb into my car I think of Dakota because it looks so great!  The afternoon was spent at my Mom & Dad's playing cards and hanging out.  Saturday night we watched "The Social Network", and while I liked the content of the movie and found it informational, I didn't like how it kept going back and forth in time.  That was confusing. Sunday w...

Ok, I have joined the gym!!  Wish me luck, pray for me, what ever you can do to send positive thoughts my way.  I really need to lose some weight & get in shape, not only for my health, but also because I can't fit into any of my summer clothes and I am heading to Florida in June.  I will keep you posted on how it goes, I am going to the gym at lunch each day.  I will ad a before picture later.

William had his first baseball game Tuesday night!  He did great, his whole team did great!  But it was so cold we were all frozen by the time it was over.  The wind was bitter cold, the wind chill must have been in the 40's.  Luckily this is just the coach pitch level so we only had 3 innings, William was so cold by the 3rd inning that he could hardly lift his legs to run.  He fell twice while running the bases.  My camera has died so no pictures yet, I will bring Mom's camera to the next game.

Now to continue with Sunday..... Everyone was up at a decent time, we made three batches of muffins for breakfast and got everyone ready of the day. We wanted to get out of the house at 9am to go shopping in the Tri-Cities (we actually left at 9:30).  Mom decided not to go, so it was Me, Sara, Tammie, and the three youngest (William, Shawn & Logan) heading out to the thrift stores.  First we hit Jo-Ann's Fabric store and Sara found some material that she wanted.  Next was Value Village, which is were we spent most of our time.  Everyone (moms & kids) found stuff to try on and stuff to buy!  There was also a quick stop at St. Vincent de Pauls where the only good thing that was found was a great golf bag Tammie bought for Austen.  Last shopping stop was at Goodwill and everyone found something there too, I got a great Gap jean jacket that I love!  At this time it was 1:20 and we were supposed to be at the Roller Skating Rink in Hermiston ...

My cousin and her kids came down this weekend.  We had so much fun!  We did so much in the two days that they were here.  Sara, Alex, and Logan got in at about 7pm Friday night.  We made sure everyone had dinner, than William and Logan started making bead braclets.  After a couple hours or so, we all got to bed, the kids finally fell asleep at 10:30. Saturday morning started at 6:30 with both Logan and William awake.  Breakfast was had and braclets were finished, than at 9am we were heading out the door.  First on the list of activities was the kids workshop at Home Depot.  The kids had a good time and did great building little planter boxes.  After Home Depot we went to my Mom & Dad's house so that they could see Sara and the kids.  Mom came with us to run errands (had to go to Walmart for a birthday card, pet store & mini mart before 1pm.  Just before 1pm we arrived at the Bowling Alley where William had Grace's birt...

My youngest, William is 8 today!  What a great day for him, he was so excited last night that he couldn't get to sleep.  Lets hope he doesn't get too tired today. Cake at Nana's after work with the cousins, then a steak feed with mom and dad at the Elks.