Thursday, September 1, 2011

Raspberrry and Peach picking, Camping, and duck, duck, goose...

Peach and Raspberry picking on Sauvie Island



 
Ben is obsessed with wearing Eva's bicycle helmet. He also loves playing duck, duck , goose. Although the sound is a little warped due to uploading the video, you can tell that there are a lot more goose than ducks.
 
 
 Camping in Mt. Hood National Forest









Tuesday, August 9, 2011

SLC and Driggs Vacay...

We had a wonderful 2 weeks enjoying our family and friends. Thank you to you all for an amazing time. We had so much fun and will have so many amazing memories of our time. (sorry I know this is a lot of photos, but there are tons more and we tried to pick out a good sample)

 The cabin at Driggs...
The cousins had a blast riding bikes on the deck and playing store. Ben was usually a freeloader, finding anyone who would take him for a ride. It seemed like he was flexible enough to fit anywhere.
 We visited the horses almost every day feeding them grass and petting them.

 Grandpa Gill shares his love of fly tying with a new enthusiast
 Kim and Tanner learned how to control the mower and made sure the yard was pristine
 The fun tradition of chasing down and waving goodbye to the cousins
The dinner bell
 Another cabin tradition of going to the playmill , Zak pretended it was his birthday to make sure he got a kiss
 Waiting for our world famous guide to take us on the river
 Loving the water
 Driving crazy
 A pretty amazing place
 Friends
 Other Friends
 The winner of the yearly fish contest two years running (what a monster!)



 One great guide
 Talent show
 "Who likes fishing?"
 Mower rides
 One special treat for Grace's baptism from Grandma and Grandpa. Personalized M & M's- Grace loved them
 Fishing with the Barbie rod like only Gracie can
 Ben's beautiful smile
 Too bad the canoe has a leak... guess we will use it any way.
 Grace's special day- before going in the water she noticed a spider floating in the font. I told her if she wanted we could baptize it as well...no dice! 
 Trying to catch a gopher snake in the middle of Grace's baptism dinner. It probably heard about the amazing food spread and the great company. Grandpa Glen finally caught it. 

 Guess where the snake is?
 Max's baseball Legion tournament. He is a great ball player and we loved watching him
 Fun at the ball park...



 Amazing how much attention and love our kids got from these guys




 Discussing world politics while enjoying the Utah sun

 Celebrating Max's 19th birthday. What a special guy.

 Celebrating Grace's 8th birthday. She was so excited opening her gifts

 Grace's special birthday dinner complete with steak, salmon, asparagus, mashed potatoes and of course raspberry chocolate cake! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa

Ben and Omi