Multnomah Falls, Oregon

We had an amazing trip to the Gorge to hike to the top of Multnomah Falls. Here's looking up at the falls, we're going to the top! The boys had a lot of fun hiking and playing! It took us A LONG TIME to get up there. Jesse was resting every couple steps. Which worked well because Torrey's Friend from College joined us and she's 7 months pregnant. It was fun hiking with Marie!

Here we are at the top. The falls is just in front of us. It was beautiful!

Bob-a-loo was carried most of the way. That worked well for him, except when he wanted to hike. He sure let us know either way he wanted it!

Here he is hiking! They boys sure love our hiking poles. Too bad the hiking poles became piercing agents for those passing us. It was a great time for all!

Here's Monkey looking over the falls. It was A LONG way down! Monkey was definitely proud of himself for hiking the whole way (just over 1 mile up)!

Check it out! Looking down the falls. Amazing!!!

We've had a great time traveling around Washington and Oregon. This is a fabulous area and we love it!

weekend in utah

Alpine Days Parade. We set up our chairs Thursday afternoon, the parade wasn't untill Saturday, but it was all filled up by Friday morning, so we were right on time I guess. Funny how many people want "good spots".

The beginning of the parade the boys kept their ears covered, it was LOUD!!!!

They had fun watching the floats and grabbing the candy!

We also went to the Hill Air Force Base museum and saw some awesome air planes. Here we are outside under the wing of a plane, great place for a picnic.

My brothers Alex (above) and Mitch and his fiance Shalecia (below) joined us on our field trip. It was fun to hang out with them too!

Bob-a-loo was a little ornery (that's pretty normal) and wouldn't look while I was taking pictures. I really like the old time planes. They were really neat.

The boys liked the fighter planes.

Monkey got to sit in an exection seat. He barley could fit in, but I wish I had the picture of Alex, he was almost to tall for it!

This museum is only a few miles from our house in Clearfield, we lived there for 3 years and never went. Doesn't it seem to take leaving to find the neat things around. Atleast Mitch and Shalecia are living at the house and we can do all the fun things with them.

Oregon Coast weekend

We had a great time on the Oregon coast last weekend. The boys loved playing in the sand at Agate Beach. There were awesome dunes and the boys were up and down them thousands of times. They sure did have have fun!

We even found a fun place to play while the marine layer burned off in the morning. The boys pretended to be pirates and loved calling eachother "matee!"

Sunday we went to another beach and played most of the day. We had fun playing in the sand, playing in the surf, and picking up rocks and shells.

Even Luna had a great time at the beach. She didn't like the salt water, but luckily there was a fresh water stream cutting the beach and perfect to play in, plus it was a little warmer then the ocean water.

Pictures from the summer events

We found ourselves at Mt. Rainer the end of July. What a beautiful place! The boys really loved the waterfalls and seeing the big mountain. We only went for the day, but I definitely want to go back and spend more time.

I finally have the photos from the combine deomlution derby. What a fun day! IF you find yourself in central Washington while this is going on, it is worth the drive to Lind Washington. Way FUN!!!!

Combine Demolition Derby!

You read correct folks! Saturday, June 12 we found ourselves in Lind, Washington at the Combine Demolition Derby! Let me tell you, it was something to see! We waited FOREVER for it to start, but once it did it was awesome! Between the "heats" it would take a long time to get the pieces of the combines out of the arena. Jes would get bored and forget what we were here for, then EVERY time they started again he would say "This is the best thing I've ever seen! I love this!" We also got to see some dirt truck racing that was very much like a demolition derby too! It was such a fun, redneck day! Our digital camera was out of batteries, so the pics have to wait till Tor developes his film, but we'll get them, I promise!

Hello Garden!

well, we planted our garden this last weekend! We have all the likely candidates: tomatoes, chilis, onion, spinach, broccoli, corn, zucchini, and yellow squash. This year we added some new items, and I'm really excited about them: spaghetti squash, lettuce, basil (oh yeah!!!!), green peppers, cantaloupe, watermelon, and pumpkin!
Monkey LOVED helping us plant the seeds. He was given the seeds and a stick broken to the length the seeds were to be separated by and he just went to town. We dup a long hole for him and he was working like a worker bee. He asked if we can plant seeds everyday. I told him he can help weed and harvest! Oddly that sounds good to him, we'll see after the summer is over how much he likes the garden. I'm just hoping this will help him WANT to eat his veggies.
bob-a-loo we're juts trying to keep out of the garden, all he wants to do is dig, dig and dig some more! Good thing we have a sand box, if only I could keep him in it!

pictures from our trips and easter!

Easter was lots of fun! The boys loved searching for eggs and really loved getting candy!

We had a lot of fun at Multnoma falls!

And Here we are at the rainy, cold Oregon Coast.
These boys just love getting out and exploring the world!