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Easter Weekend

It's taken me quite awhile to post our Easter since last week was so crazy due to talk preparations for Sacrament Meeting on Sunday afternoon. Yes, that's right! I gave a talk at a baptism (on baptism) on Sat., then a talk in Sacrament mtg. with Steve, who then gave a lesson to his Deacons. We are relieved to have the weekend behind us! There was a lot of fun and much spiritual growth, however, so it was worth it all! Our memories start with Alyssa's first experience in a real outdoor swing, with her brother doing the honors. Hope you have a chance to view the smilebox scrapbook above. Enjoy! I hope all of you had a WONDERFUL Easter with wonderful memories to share and testimonies renewed. We love you all!!!

Conference & Waffles Weekend

Traditionally, we enjoy a delicious breakfast of Belgian waffles every General Conference weekend before the Sunday morning session. We always have them with real whipped cream, finely chopped strawberries, and syrup. This morning Michael said, "They're YUMMY! They're my favorite!" Jeremy said they are, "The best waffles in the World!" We started this tradition years ago, when we lived in Lehi while Bryon and Tyler were little. The recipe was given to me by my beautiful sister, Melinda. It's so wonderful to have traditions the children love and look forward to! For the recipe, visit our Alger Family recipes blog. The link is to the right.

Spring Break- A refreshing week!

Just thought I would take a quick minute to describe just how enjoyable Spring Break was! Steve couldn't take more than a day or two off for anything other than day trips here in Oregon, so we decided to make them at the Coast and Animal Safari. Which, by-the-way is worth the price if you wish to visit Oregon or have wondered during your time living here. We sure needed the time away just to enjoy fresh air and be away from home and phone! Sometimes we get so caught up in the day to day living that we forget just how enjoyable life can be. Since Alyssa's birth, that is what happened to me. I'm so thankful for the support of family and their enthusiasm to go do something fun away from home, even though they get to regularly. It was a wonderful time we can chalk up to good memories. We origionally wanted to rent 4-wheelers for the dunes but were not able to have more than Bryon, myself and Steve drive them and we couldn't ride with a passenger. We will look into a different place next time. The sandboarding was cheaper and was a load of fun! We enjoyed a great picnic lunch and a beautiful hike up the dunes and seeing the ocean (which I miss, being a California girl), then capped off the night with Pizza from Eugene's Sys New York style Pizza. The next day was spent at the Animal Safari in Winston and the zoo and gift shop there. The boys enjoy getting the penny made into an animal coin, which is a great souvenir to scrapbook as well! No future yard sale junk for us!! hahaha! Make sure you check out the scrapbook below to see more pictures of our wonderful Spring Break!!

Spring Break

Make a Smilebox photobook

The children had so much fun yesterday for St. Patrick's Day that when they got up this morning they were still talking about it. We had the greatest fun! For breakfast, the children had a choice between several different St. Patrick's Day buttons they could wear. By the end of the day they had me wearing the one that said, "Kiss me, I'm Irish"! They had a fun breakfast of Lucky Charms, Green eggs and ham, green grapes, green grape juice, toast and green Go-Gurts. Dinner was quite the celebration as the table was decorated festively green, and a bowl of fun things for each person to choose from and wear to show their spirit of the festivities. Bryon wore a flashing shamrock, while Jeremy sported shamrock glasses and Steve wire a drivers hat while Tyler dangled a green whistle with shamrock adornment. Alyssa styled out with a Leperchaun hat headband. We had a wonderful time while eating our Corned beef and Cabbage, green salad, dinner rolls and lime Jello with Pistachio pudding and cool whip for dessert. Having a big family makes occassions like this one so great! (In case you're wondering, Michael and Justin slept through it all, sadly enough. )

*FYI- The corned beef and cabbage recipe is a weight watchers 8 pt. meal that can be found on the "Alger Family Recipes" blog (link provided).

Happy St. Patrick's Day!I thought it would be fun to share with you our new St Patrick's tradition! Jeremy came home from school and told me that a friend of his said that if you put a 3-leaf clover under your pillow, a Leperchaun will leave you 3 pieces of candy, if you leave gold or a 4-leaf clover you will get gold. So all in good faith they (Jeremy, Michael, andJustin) left 2-3 leaf clovers each and a Chuck-E-Cheese coin, being that it's gold! (Oh the mind of a child). How could the Leperchaun then let them down? So...here is what the good Irish-man brought them, after-all...we do have Irish ancestry!