A Day At The Lake

We went out with Grandma and Grandpa Stanley to Fall Creek. The kids did not know what to think of being on the boat and tube. I guess it has been too long since we had our boat for them to remember, except for Cayden, who always told Grandpa to go FASTER. We played a game with Preston and Maddox of "No Hands" to distract them and get them to enjoy the tube. It worked!
London wouldn't move while the boat was going...not such a bad thing. We did have to put the infant life vest on her though and she was not happy.

Preston loves his Grandma Stanley.....

Happy Anniversary

It's been 13 years!! We can't believe it, it's gone by so fast yet it also seems like there was never a time when we were apart. I was 13 when Jason and I first met. It's hard to believe that now we have been together for so long and have four beautiful children together. So Jason's parents and Emirose were so kind as to let us get away for the weekend and we stole away to Sunriver, just the two of us. We hardly knew what to do with just each other, but quickly figured it out and found ourselves remembering what it was like to have so much time to do whatever you wanted. For us that included long walks, biking all over, playing tennis, hiking, reading books while sitting by the pool, having a long relaxing dinner, and whatever comes later...(No there will be no 5th child as a result of this vacation, Jason already took care of that.) So needless to say it was wonderful and we remembered that we do really enjoy being around each other, but we also really missed the kids, (at least a little bit.)
Here is a picture of Lake Paulina, we hiked around the whole edge of the lake, 7.5miles. It was a little farther than we expected but we made pretty good time.

This is one of the falls along the way...
Then we drove to the top of Paulina Peak for an awesome view of Lava fields and other surrounding lakes.

Touch a Truck

We went to the Touch a Truck event on Wednesday night where they had all kinds of trucks for the kids to see, touch, crawl up in, and their favorite thing...Honk all the Horns!! There was logging trucks, dump trucks, garbage trucks, ice cream trucks, and all sorts of police and fire vehicles. The boys had a blast going through each one, sometimes multiple times.

London

I guess I just can't show off my little London enough. She is crawling everywhere and standing up and walking around things. There is no slowing this girl down.

Cub Camp

From Archery to BB Guns...Crafts, Skits, Games, and more, Cayden loved every bit of Cub Camp. He is trying to convince me that we have enough room in our yard to set up a hay bale for Archery...wouldn't our neighbors love to see arrows flying into their backyards. As if the soccer balls are not enough to fish out.

Happy 4th of July

Here we are at the annual Creswell Parade. The kids love watching all the horses, fire trucks, tractors, and floats. Not to mention all the candy they throw out to the kids and the hosing down by the fire trucks...



Next it was off to the Eugene Pro Rodeo for a little monster truck and motorcycle action. The kids were not as interested in the actual cow roping and barrell racing that we were there to actually see
And yes this guy is in mid-air about 30 feet off the ground... Maddox has found a new career!