So Cute, but SOOOO Much work

Chris and the girls came to Portland to stay with us. They were with us for 10 nights. It was so fun to have them here and spend more time enjoying them, but I must admit they wore me out. I hope Daniel and I provided a little break here and there for Chris. I know he says he has been going crazy with the girls all by himself, but I didn't believe him. Now I know he is most likely going to lose his mind before my sister returns from her deployment. Hopefully we will be able to find it again for him (his mind) when his wife returns home. Again, I am going to post lots of pics so my sister can see her wee ones in action.


We put them to work right away and we didn't even have to pay them, oh wait, actually we paid them in macaroni and cheese....

Man, she moves fast and she is obsessed with that dog.

Chris relaxing with a beer, while Daniel cooks on the grill.


Katie entered the coloring contest.

Glad that someone else is enjoying my fabulous bathtub too...

Ellie was fascinated with the water coming out of the faucet,
she kept trying to grab the stream of water.

While Uncle Daniel and Daddy went on a 4 hour bike ride and pub crawl, we played in the church yard down the street, arranged the flowers we picked in the field, ate dinner on the porch, more gardening and destroyed the living room......

Concentrating hard....


(I am still finding little bowls of flowers all around the house
that Katie delivered to every room.)


Cleaning up her mess. (Katie wasn't sitting still long enough
to get a picture of her eating on the porch.)


Very seriously, building a fort "like daddy does on the beach".


Undoubtedly pointing to an airplane in the sky.
She was sure she saw airplanes in the sky,
even when I couldn't see a thing.