Our time in Portland, Oregon

This Last Friday, we went to Portland for a conference that Scott needed to attend.
We took Jay and Barbara with us; and was SO grateful that they could come.

We happened upon an "Electric" car show. Pretty cool stuff for buzzing around town.

We drove up the Mt. Hood. They were grooming the slopes for the next days skiers. In fact they do more business in the summer months with skiing than they do in the winter.

The night lodge where it would be cool to spend a night.

We took a speed boat ride down the river to view all the ships that were loading and unloading on the Columbia river getting ready to head out to the ocean.
Notice all the grey clouds in every one of these pictures. We hardly ever saw blue skies.
Shorts and flip flops were the WRONG thing to bring on this trip!

Raspberry season is ON!

This week our raspberries are really taken off.
Here is Scott and Irene picking some for jam
on the 4th of July.

Cameron (Erik's son who is almost 3) loves the berries.
The easiest ones to get would be inside the dog run.

If ever you can't find Cameron; just check that dog run and he is out picking raspberries.
It's a good thing there is no dog that uses that run anymore.

Check out the berries on his mouth.

Let the summer begin!

Griffin went to the doctor Monday to have his elbow checked. GOOD NEWS, no cast. Everything was healing great and he got his wrap taken off. So he now can look forward to swim lessons and finishing up baseball as well as reunions and just enjoying the summer.

A minor casualty this summer

Last week, Griffin (Jolene's son) fell off some playground equipment and hurt his elbow. The ex-rays couldn't tell if there was a fracture or just over-extended. So he is in a sling and has it wrapped til this next Monday when he goes back to the Doctor. A cast might be put on at that time. (We hope not!)

Reagan and Kenidee gave Griffin a get well present and cards. What thoughtful cousins. (Of course then they helped him eat the Starburst all gone.)

Addison is growing up soooo fast!

I went to Jolene's house a week ago; because she was experiencing stomach pain. After seeing 3 doctors over a 2 day period; they finally decided that she needed her appendix out. So after about 1 1/2 hours of lazer surgery, she got it taken care of. So I took her kids for a couple of days to give her a rest. She recovered so quickly that it was just amazing!

Addison loved the walker at my house. She had no trouble figuring out how every thing worked.

Addison is scooting all around on the floor. She has no trouble getting to any given point in a room. Full crawling is just a few days away I suspect. Then WALKING! Who do you think she looks like?

A fun day at the Ogden Cannery!

Scott and I decided that we needed to update our food storage.
So Jennifer got us an appointment for last Saturday for one hour at the dry pack cannery.
What a great time we had. Here Austin and Scott fill the cans, while Irene makes sure there is food to put in the cans.

After the cans were filled Jennifer made sure they were sealed and then I labeled each one.
Shawnee filled the boxes with 6 cans and labeled each box so we knew what was in there.

After we got over the "shock" of looking pretty geeky; we really did have a fun time. We filled enough boxes that each family got 8 boxes of dry food. Thanks to the missionaries that worked at the cannery. They were a great help and even made us laugh.

Another graduate in the family!

Hannah graduated from her pre-school yesterday May 29, 2009. There was a short ceremony in the teachers backyard.Her teacher gave all the kids a graduate autograph dog, these t-shirts and then a book with all their individual work sheets and pictures of field-trips they had done for the year.
Now on to Plain City Elementary this fall! I'm sure that she is ready. Her pre-school taught her alot.