Friday, August 19, 2011

Wallowa Lake pt2





Our trip was from Thursday to Sunday. We joined Ben's father, step-mother and aunt. I love all of them as though they were mine. They have truly made me feel like a part of the family.


Aunt Sue

We also joined Mike and Debbie who are long time family friends.




Friday night we had one big meal together.




This is what every night looked like...




Big E and Kyle (son of family friend Mike) spent most of the weekend trying to catch a chipmunk. Mostly to see if they could.




They eventually did on the last day we were there.

Have I mentioned the deer? The deer are almost domesticated. You are not allowed to feed or pet them though. Over the years they have started to become more aggressive in their search for food. However, they come into the campground on a daily basis and are not afraid of people at all.





The highlight of the trip for Little E and J was the horseback riding. J has wanted to ride a horse for a couple of years now and could not hardly stand having to wait to ride.





This was absolutely the best vacation we have had so far!

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Wallowa Lake 2011



This last weekend we went to Wallowa Lake,Or for our summer vacation. We had The. Best. Time!!!!! We borrowed a trailer from our friends Kim and Dave and headed out on Thursday morning. After a 4 hour drive we arrived just in time for check in.

Wallowa Lake has so many things for the kids to do.



Go kart racing.




Bumper boats.


Jet skiiing.

Horse back riding.


More to come tomorrow.....

Saturday, July 30, 2011

J is 8

My baby girl turned 8 this year. I am not at all happy. She is my baby and my only girl. On Sunday we had a family/friends party for her at a local park with a water feature and a big play structure nearby. She had a great time!

Wearing her new sundress and matching sunglasses from Uncle Pat and Aunt Angela.

Our niece coming off of the slide.

Uncle Pat and our nephew


Grandma Jane

J and Kim

the cake

Then on Tuesday she had 3 of her friends (and their dolls) over to make fancy hats to go to high tea.

J and her 3 friends

Mom Mom's gift to J this year was to go to a Victorian Tea Garden and have high tea. They had such a good time!






She had a great time!!!!

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Belated 4th of July

Sorry for the delay in this post. I lost my camera battery charger and we just found it today!

We spent our 4th in our little town. It was AMAZING! We will never go anywhere else again for the 4th of July! Our little town is truly a community.

In the morning there was the first ever 4th of July kiddie parade. it was short, sweet, and adorable. It was very cute.




Fireworks are legal in our town and the city was encouraging everyone to bring their fireworks into town and light them off in one of our parks where they were having the big show and there would be firemen present so if anything got out of hand they were right there. The main show from the city and the fireworks afterward were truly incredible! I have never seen anything like it.



Monday, July 11, 2011

A Day on the River

Yesterday we got together with some of our friends and had a day down on the river.