Beach Pics

from way back... our Oregon trip again

While we were in Oregon my family exchanged gifts. There were some pretty creative ones. My mom made Sophie a ABC book for us to look at during church. 

 I made Seth a Seth's game of life. I replaced some of the squares with things that have happened to him or inside jokes between the two of us.

 Seth gave Josh some Mario decorations for our game room downstairs and made him some man-candles, which are candles that are scented with manly smells like bbq and WD40.

 Krista made me these cute placemats. I love them.

 Abby's gift was super, it was a redneck bumbo chair, my dad made it. I don't know how much Abby liked it but we all got a good laugh out of it.

Astoria Tower

On our Vacation we went up to Astoria. We went to Astoria tower, It's an amazing view (and quite a climb to the top). When we first go there we could see so far. 

 This was freaking me out so much- when Sophie was up so high, she didn't seem to mind in the least bit though.

Soon the fog rolled in and we couldn't see so far, but that was also pretty. 

We flew airplanes from the top, climbing the tower a few times to do so.

We were going to go on a movie tour in Astoria but had a couple tired babies so we just went to our lovely beach house instead.

Portland Children's Museum

 Sophie loves the children's museum, we love taking her. It was actually Josh's first time going. I think he was impressed with the size.

 I'm not sure why but this rice play table was her favorite, she could have played there forever, using shells to dig in the rice.

 This was pretty cute, on the stage she just stood up there singing into the mic. La, la, la the other girl in the picture joined in with her rendition of the A,B,Cs. Quite the performers.

 She could climb this herself, it was pretty impressive.

It was great fun! I wish we had a place like this nearby. 

Before our Oregon Trip

Before our trip to Oregon, my mom, my brother, Sophie, and I went down to Utah for a weekend. It was such a fun little trip. some highlights:

-We went to the Salt Lake Zoo, Sophie got to see some Anie's (elephants) which are her favorite animals. 

-We went to IKEA and I got to meet up with Kirsten and Cambrai there. 

-We went to Costco (which is a big deal for me) I bought Sherlock and we got gelato. 

- I watched Downton Abbey with Cambrai. 

- Meet up with Casey and Logan for pie. 

-Played games with Casey and Cambrai, and then went for a late night run to the store and milkshakes. 

We stayed at my aunts house, which is always nice, Sophie loved their dog. My cousin and uncle were practicing a song (piano and viola) that they were going to do in sacrament meeting, Sophie was so in awe. 

On the way to Oregon we caravaned with my mom and Seth. We stayed the night in Boise, swimming at the pool and then watching Pawn Stars until we all fell asleep. Seth could play is ipod over a radio station, we found we could get it to play in both cars which was really fun. At Multnoma (I really can't spell) we switched cars, Seth, Josh, and Sophie spent some time at the falls. I think they had a good time with it.

My mom and I got to go to a book fair, that she gets to go to because she's a teacher. I got some wonderful deals.

Hayes Campout

 Obviously I took a copious amount of pictures of our campout... (sorry Heather). Anyway, the first weekend in June Josh's family camped in Downey, ID near the hot springs. I wasn't super excited because camping is not usually my thing, but it was actually really nice (other than the chilly weather and Sophie waking up super super early in the morning). They had really nice and clean bathrooms! That was a big seller for me. It was a fun little getaway.

 Friday night we took these light pictures and we played a murder mystery. It's always lots of fun, but I don't know that other campers appreciated our calls of murder at midnight.The hot springs were nice, they had water slides, but I only did them a few times, mostly I just floated around in the warm water. 

 Sophie just loved all the play time with her cousins. She does a pretty good job of keeping up with all her older cousins.

5k with my dad

 We have had a crazy month- we have done so much so I have a lot to post about and they will likely be out of order (I am sure they will be because this post if out of order). One of the things I did is for Father's Day I signed my dad and I up to run a 5K together. It was my first 5K- it was an evening run to celebrate the summer solstice. I thought it was going to be way too hot, but the weather was perfect and the course pretty flat.

 My goal was to run the whole thing, I did it. My dad ran with me although I know that Marathon Monte could go way faster than little, slow me, but I was so glad that he did. I don't know if I would have kept running otherwise. My goal was just to be under 40 mins- we came in at 38:05 so it was great. I felt good after, I think I could have gone faster but I was having a hard time judging how far I had gone.

Thanks to my dad, the marathon runner, for getting me motivated to start running and encouraging me, even with my slow progress.