London Turns 1

I can't believe a whole year has passed since we had our baby girl. I hope I can hold onto her sweet baby scent for a long time. I feel so sad that she is getting so big and independent already. On her birthday she took her first actual steps. She is just so precious to me I can't even describe the feelings. We had a great party and lots of fun...

The girl already has her own paparazzi...(all cousins for now, but hey who knows!)

Our Family

We tried to get some professional pictures of the kids and every time I would think about doing it someone would get some sort of bruise or scratch and I would say "oh I'll wait till next week" then next week would come and go with no pictures. So since I had only taken London's picture once when she was 3 months old I figured it was now or never. Jason and I had not intended on being in the pictures too, but I was actually wearing a coordinating top and thought what the heck. So maybe next year we will actually get some good professional shots, but these will do for now....

Happy Birthday to Cayden

Is it true I have a 9 year old...I can't believe so much time has gone by. Cayden is in the 3rd grade now and doing really well, he has a great Spanish accent. He is taking piano and is involved in Cub Scouts. He has this notion that he wants to be a movie star someday and so he wanted a Hollywood style party...I was all for just having a few friends over to swim but he and his Dad got to planning, well we won't let that happen again. He had a great time and it makes me happy to see him happy.

Trip to Cali...

Well we decided at the last minute to take the family to San Francisco and go to Six Flags, since they had been begging for a trip to Disneyland. Needless to say we did not want to endure a 14 hour drive with the kids, so we settled on the 8 hours drive each way instead. We had a great time, and then were home in time for Labor day weekend and a great Oregon Duck Game.

Some pictures of us at Six Flags....




We took a tour of the Jelly Belly Factory....YUM...I think you gain weight just from the smell inside.

We visited the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fran and headed for the beach...

At the Beach...Newport, Oregon

Oh what do you do at the Oregon Coast???
We build sandcastles...

and some just dig...


We Play Frisbee on the beach

And have sand ball wars

Some people like to be buried
Others do not...
We hook up with old friends
We watch the seals We go to the tidepools


We visit the Yaquina lighthouse
And climb the 110 stairs to the top
We put our feet in the water
And try and wait till we can go back again...

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.....