New Blog and Spring Break

Hello everyone! (and by everyone, I mean Christi-pretty much the only person I think who actually reads our blog and my #1 commenter :) ).  We had a very crazy but fun spring break this past week! Last weekend, as said in the previous blog, we got to go down to Glide and hang out, which was a ton of fun, and then we went camping on the coast! It was soooo much fun! I love the coast- it is gorgeous, and unlike CA beaches, there is seriously no one around! We went out on the beach and i think we saw like 2 other people! That is probably because the water is freezing cold-very unlike CA beaches.  We discovered that Jackson is a little surfer in training! He ran all the way down the beach straight into the waves! They knocked him over and he totally did a face plant into the sand right there in the freezing cold water, and when I picked him up, he was laughing so hard!! We couldn't believe it! He is fearless! He just kept charging the waves over and over again, laughing the whole time. When we finally had to go because we were afraid he was going to get hypothermia, he threw a fit! We had to carry him kicking and screaming at the top of his lungs all the way back to the car!  He is going to love the beaches in CA when we go in July because he can play in the water all day practically and not freeze to death! John's mom, Sue, got some great shots of all the beach action. Here's just a few- 

I love his faces in these pictures- he had so much fun! 

Later in the week, back in Eugene, our sister-in-law Christi and her daughter Reagan who is just about to turn 2 found a great deal on a last minute flight out of Vegas and so they got to come stay with us for a couple of days! It was soooo much fun to see them! We miss them tons! Reagan is the funniest and smartest little girl.  She called Jackson, Jacksy all week.  Wednesday we all went swimming at Splash- an indoor wave pool and kiddie pool that also has a water slide, and Jackson and Reagan had so much fun.  They are both little water babies.  Jackson kept running back out into the wave pool.  Then yesterday, John, me, Jackson, Christi and Reagan all crammed into our car and drove up to Portland.  Christi has friends who live pretty close to the temple up there and wanted to go see them and being the super awesome sister that she is, she offered to watch Jack for us so we could go to the temple together! We were sooo excited because we don't really have anyone to watch him so we don't get to go too often, and when we do go we usually just take turns watching the little guy, so it was way nice to go together.  We also got to do a little shopping in downtown Portland and John pointed out the building he is going to be working in starting this July!  (the date got moved up from september, so we are moving July 1st now).  Christi and Reagan had to leave us and go back home today, (Sunday), and we miss them already.  Jack especially misses Reagan- they had so much fun together.  When we would try to put them down for their naps they would yell to each other through the doors. It was so funny. Reagan would yell hey! and Jack would yell hey! back to her and then Rea Rea would giggle and giggle.  They are two little goof balls. 

So that is our Spring Break this year! Sorry I wrote so much about it- we just did a ton of stuff and had a ton of fun! It was a good break for John before he begins his last term since it is going to be a hard one. But after that he is done! Wahoo!!! Oh and special thanks to Christi for showing me how to change my blog template so it is actually cute! I have been wanting to do that forever and just didn't know how!  And thanks again for coming Christi! We miss you already!!  Here's a few more pictures from the week: