May Day!

We celebrated the first of May (May Day!) with the family--including our cousins! It was so great to see CV (name abbreviated to protect...) and his lovely wife. 

Currently my life is a game of catch-up so, to expedite that catch-up process, i'm just posting pics...in mosaic form :)

beautiful Little Miss:

and adorable Sweet Pea eating Sweet Potatoes 

(a progression of photos illustrating how she loved it)

Cutie Cakes enjoyed meeting {my} cousins for the first time

crazy fun was had when LilMiss & CutieFace found the toddler croquet set 

(thank goodness for soft mallets)

and for my favorite part of the day--

the older girls enjoyed riding their new trike with Poppy. SWEET!

Bikes in the City

Lookout! Bikes are EVERYWHERE in Portland!

J has this crazy idea that we only need to be a 1-car family...and that we can survive on one car by getting a Bakfiets. "A WHAT?" you ask? Well, so did I.

A Bafkiets is a Dutch bike that seats three kids in front of you in this little wooden wheelbarrow contraption. We had the privilege of test driving it while in Portland at an awesome little shop called Clever Cycles.

Cutie Face was the first guinea pig...don't know if that was the smartest idea to let her ride first!

Here is our happy family:

Brave Uncle Noah bit the bullet and also took a test ride...



So, will we get one of these? Well, let's just say it wasn't ruled out...