Hole in the head!

Pumpkin patch!

MORE vacation

This is the part of the vacation where I lose track of time and just do a photo montage of: ice cream at the zoo, messy art day, Estacada car show and playing at the creek!

vacation (day 5)

Our day today was haircuts in the morning, water balloons in the afternoon, Cisco & Brenna & Alyssa in the evening, and camping at night (meaning that Eloise & Owen are sleeping in a tent with Mana as I write this!)

Meanwhile... Matt rode another 60 miles today! Getting close to Olympia. Go Matt, Go!

vacation (day 4)

Eloise and Owen spend the morning following pirate bunny maps through the forest to find buried treasure!!

Then they spend the afternoon innertubing at Eagle Fern Park. Woo hoo!

Meanwhile, Matt and Josh ride another 76 miles in 100 degree weather. Wow!

vacation (day 3)

And, they're off! Matt and Josh ride 68 miles today - from Salem to somewhere north west of Portland! and it is HOT - over 100 degrees!

Meanwhile, the kids and I mosey on over to Estacada and start relaxing with Mana and Pata.

more vacation (day 2)

We have SO MUCH FUN in Salem with cousins Pierre & Ingrid! Not to mention Josh, Christy, Jeanne, Corina and Adam.

Lucky coincidence we are there for Aunt Jeanne's birthday (within 1 day, so it's not too late to celebrate with a cake!) Happy Birthday!

2nd summer vacation (day 1)

We're off on our 2nd summer vacation! We stop in Ashland to play in the pool at the hotel. It's well over 100 degrees so we play in the pool for 6 hours straight - no exaggerating!

New York City!

We went everywhere and saw everything and it was super hot the whole time!

Owen conquers Washington Square Park!

 Eloise gets freaked by a bonafide tyrannosaurus fossil!

Eloise and Owen conquer Central Park!

Owen looks into every window of every apartment in the whole city!

Eloise checks out Grand Central Station!

We all hang out way past bedtime with Cousin Emi!

We pay our respects to Balto!

 

 Everyone eats as much ice cream as they want!

And we get as wet as we want in any public fountain we come across because it's sooooo HOT!

last day of school

Good bye Ms. Harris!

So long Ms. Margot!

Capitola

We had so much fun in Cappy for friends weekend!

Bath time.

 This is how Owen takes a bath these days :)

Haircut

Spring Break!!!!

Eloise and Owen spring break boogie boarding (or at least Eloise did). And then they capped it off with an awesome easter egg hunt!

Why not have some ice cream?

Surprise ... archery!

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Birthday #8

I don't know what you call this...

Music practice

Mattress day!

Shake it!

Eloise and Owen had a great time making home made butter! It was surprisingly easy. Not surprisingly at all, it was SUPER DELICIOUS!