Oregon Part 5: Fun with Friends

3 Monkeys at the Zoo with my friend Nicole and her girls Kaitlyn and Natalie
Lauren cooling off at the water park in Wilsonville with my friend Anne and her boys

Shannon and Collin enjoying a cool jog down the chute.

The girls checking out the shooting water feature

Dinner one lovely summer night with the Wilson family

(Wendy, Eric, Trevor, and Megan)

There was also a dinner with Art and Angela Domer and Braxton but I forgot to take a picture.

I also enjoyed a few fun evenings out alone with middle/high school friends. It was so fun to hang out Anne and Shannon!

Oregon Part 4 continued...

Spending time with my dad, Aunt Paige and Uncle Andrew

This year was Shannon's first year of swim lessons and Lauren's second year at MHCC. It was great since they were both in the same learner's pool, different classes but the same time slot but made for exhausting after class clean up (showering and washing the hair of wto girls quickly, dressing, and hair drying....all tiring on a pregnant mama) but worth every ounce of effort :)

Here are a few pics from the last day of class.

Oregon Part 4

A trip to Laurelhurst Park with Grandpa Mike, Aunt Paige, and Uncle Andrew. We also got to see my cousin Melissa and her cute kids.
A quick stop for sorbet and ice cream with Grandpa Mike

And a quick visit to Grandpa Mike at his work at the bank.

Oregon Part 3

The girls with Grandma Kathy on her lunch break



Shannon and Grandpa Steve


Lauren and Uncle Adam

Mom, the girls, and Great Grandma Shirley after a hot morning in the park

Oregon Part 2

Let the parade begin!

Since Grandpa Scott is the chief we enjoyed the parade view from the police car while he passed out candy.



Lauren enjoyed riding up front and waving while my mom, Shannon and I roasted in the back of the police car.

It was a HOT day and being pregnant I highly recommend never riding back there as the seats are plastic and hard and there is no A/C but it was sure fun this day.


Thank you Grandpa Scott for an unforgetable parade experience!

Trip to Oregon Part 1

Our trip to Oregon was jam packed full of family visits and friends. Here is a snapshot of our time in Oregon.

The girls with Aunt Shelly

Lauren, Aunt Shelly, and Grandpa Steve

Playing with Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Steve

Latourell Falls, Columbia Gorge

Daniel and Shannon enjoying the view of the Gorge

A view of Women's Forum from the Scenic Lookout Pointe

A view from the Scenic Highway that takes you to Multnomah Falls

Downtown Troutdale after visiting Grandpa at his police station

Lunch with Grandma Lee and Grandpa Scott

Painting with Grandma Lee

The girls with Grandpa Scott

Lauren taking Shannon for a ride in Uncle Adam's new car

4th of July Weekend

This year we joined our friends the Bellezas and Pavanos at Christian's parents house in La Selva Beach for their neighborhood 4th of July extroganza.

The town has an adorable parade that lets the kids participate so the kids decorated their bikes and off the kids and dads went while the mom's took pics and enjoyed the short parade.







After the parade the neighborhood party got started with a band, jump house for the kids and what else but a roasted pig (let's just say the girls were not thrilled the day before to see a dead pig show up in a cooler).

The manly men

Daniel with Christian's mom Marsha at the party

The Pavanos

Michelle, Christian's siter Nicki and I (and yes that is a root beer in my pregnant hand :)

The band did a great job entertaining the crowd

Lauren not even pausing for her drink from the jumpy house party

Lauren and Shannon only stopped for dinner and potty breaks. I had to pry them out at 8pm for a bath before the fireworks show which suprisingly they did stay awake for.

The Belleza family

Here is a picture of Daniel from our day at the beach. After a trip out on the body board w/ the guys he came back swollen and with hives and refused to let me take him to an ER so he took a little rest and worked it out....(I think he was stung by a jellyfish but we could not figure out where)

Shannon and Kaitie

The girls with Maddy
Thank you friends for another fun weekend at the beach!