Maggie turns 2!!!

Maggie had a great 2nd Birthday yesterday. We went to The Original Pancake House in Bend where she had chocolate chip pancakes with whipped cream for breakfast. Then we went to the Working Wonders Children's Museum in the old Mill District. Both girls had a a blast there. Maggie was old enough this time to play with all the exhibits. Bridget loved the new "be a news anchor" installation. It had a big news desk, microphones a weather wall and a closed circuit camera with a TV monitor on the wall so the kids could see themselves reporting. She did many "special reports" while we were there. She had some presents to open. Her two favorites were the Fisher Price Little People Castle and a little box of dress up clothes. Maggie and Bridget immediately dressed up and ran through the ranch saying they were fairies and princesses. I managed to get a few cute pictures of them like that. Then I made Maggie a special Birthday dinner of her favorite Fettuccine Alfredo and topped it off with a absolutely delicious Berry Vanilla Chantilly cake from Whole Foods and chocolate ice cream from a local dairy in Redmond. We've decided to stay an extra day since today is the first nice sunny day all week (it's been cold, windy and lots of snow flurries) and the pass was still a bit icy this morning. It was so nice to actually be able to see all the mountains today, especially the Three Sisters are just gorgeous with tons of snow.

We're home!

We got back from Oregon last night after making my best drive time ever. We made it home in 6 hours! We only stopped once and the girls were really great troopers the whole ride down and back.

The pumpkin patch was lots of fun. The maze was HUGE (200 acres I believe) but we did successfully navigate our way through it and even found the Princess (who had candy) in the middle. They had these huge pumpkin cannons that were like super sized versions of PJ's compressed air potato gun. Bridget was in a mood and was pretty cranky at first. She wasn't allowing any pictures of her that day, but I got a few of Maggie and even Bridget when she wasn't looking.

We also found the coolest playground EVER in Prineville in a beautiful little park with a paved bike path along a good sized creek. We will definitely be visiting there again next time. Bridget also had fun having adventures outside and driving her tractor while Maggie had a blast playing in the dirt mounds and chasing Jessie around. We are all so sad that we most likely won't get to go back until March.

Here are just a few pictures for now. The first one is from a little photoshoot Bridget agreed to, with the bribe of a bag of skittles. The second one was from the park in Prineville and the rest are from the pumpkin patch.