Time for some Inside Fun

Today we headed to Burger King on Barbur for some indoor fun. Makayla's friends, Adrainne, and Katy joined us along with Nana's daycare kids.

Kaden and Adrianne

Makayla poses for the camera.

Master climber!

Adrianne and Makayla

Katy, Adrainne, and Makayla

Big Boy, Kaden

Mooo!!

Kaden is getting so big. He is 15 1/2 months old. He seems so grown up these days. Today he was dressed in a simple outfit, jeans and thermal shirt, and he looked like such a little boy. He is so funny and smart! He has a pretty good vocabulary already. . . I am not sure all could interpet what he says but he really knows what he is saying.

Kaden says: Ball, Boz (the name of a character in his book), Dog, a-ya (Kayla), Mama, Dada, Drink, thank you, please, cheese (while he poses for the camera), that, Whee, hi, bye-bye, and I am sure I am missing a few.

Gregory's Celebrate 50 years!

Ruth and Byron Gregory have been married for 50 years!! Their children put together a wonderful celebration for them. We were blessed with an absolutely perfect day, the weather could not have been better!

Makayla's 1st day of Pre-school

Here are some pictures of Makayla's 1st day of school.

We waited until Makayla was 4 to send her to preschool. Not really cause she wasn't ready, but more cause we weren't. And as her first day approached I began to realize that I still wasn't ready. Sure there is some nice one on one time with Kaden while she is in class but I don't want to acknowledge that she is so grown up. Next year she will be in REAL school. I am not sure I like that.

She loves going to school. I hear the drama of a 4 year old every day when we pick her up! I never knew! She is so funny!

Crater Lake

Michael and I took off for two day without the kids for our anniversary this year. We weren't really sure until the morning we left where we were going to go but we through our camping stuff in the car and headed out. We ended up at Crater Lake. I had never been and Michael had only seen it once so we took advantage of a beautiful weekend. We had a really good time. The weather was awesome!

Oregon State Fair

Digging for SeashellsMaking wood name tags.
The reptile exhibit was a big hit. Makayla was fascinated!! She LOVED the snake, she really wanted to hold it. Eeekk!
Annika was a little shy at first. . . but once she started petting it she couldn't get enough. She kept going back to pet the big yellow snake.
The Dragon Lizard was pretty cool.

At the end of the day we let the girls pick a couple rides to go on. They had a blast.

Celebrating 60 years!

Betty and Jim Porter

Married Nov. 1947

60 years together!!

Grandma and Grandpa Porter are celebrating 60 years together. We celebrated by having kind of like a family "reuinion" to celebrate their journey through life together.

Family came from California, Canada and parts of Oregon to celebrate. We had such a good time together.

There were many stories told and so many more memories created. Both good. . . and bad. We had some mishaps and disapointments on our camping trip but we created so many special moments and memories with family that will be remembered for a life time. We are so blessed to have our family!!

Mishaps. . . what mishaps you say. . . . well here is just the begining of our trip. Papa decides to pull a "typical Dave trick" and pretend he is a bear in the woods coming out to attack us all in the dark. . . well as he is making his noises and creaping up behind us, he trips over a rock, slips in the gravel and falls over. . . . breaking both his tibia and fibia on his left leg!! He didn't exactly get the reaction he was looking for but he did sure scare everyone!!