Whew! We’re pleasantly exhausted after a fun-filled weekend up at Bill’s Northwoods cabin in Washington. Grandma Gail and the Boisvert clan joined us for some good quality family fun and togetherness! It was Owen’s first time up there - well, since he’s been “on the outside”. Our last trip up to the cabin was back in January! The forecast was wet and cold, but the weather turned out to be warm and pleasant. On Saturday we took a nice easy one-mile stroll through a beautiful old growth forest, followed by some treasure hunting with Grandee’s hand-me-down metal detector on the Swift Reservoir beach. Today we stopped by the Tale of Two Forests which is a walk through a 2,000 year old lava flow that encased a forest and created tree casts in stone. Amazing! At the cabin, we ate more than we needed to all weekend and the kids played their brains out! It was good wholesome fun all around and we can’t wait to do it again! You can enjoy the photos in the newly uploaded gallery, in addition to a few photos of the end of Nanna and Grandee’s visit last week and a few pics from around the house. This coming week looks a little more tame than the past two weeks have been (a welcome change of pace!), though we have Patrick’s 29th birthday to look forward to on the 31st! Until then… be well!
Monthly Archive for August, 2007
Whew! My first opportunity to sit down at the computer in days and days! It feels like we’ve been going nonstop for the past 10 days or so! The weekend of the 11th, the family headed to Seaside to visit with Grandma Kelly and company - and it gave Patrick and I the chance to sneak away for a nice quiet lunch together in celebration of our 6th wedding anniversary! Time flies when you’re having fun! On Sunday the 12th, we gathered at the Boisvert house to celebrate Emery’s 2nd birthday! Yippee! Now we have two little nightmares in their second year AT THE SAME TIME! God help us!
Early last week we headed to Gramma’s Place near Sherwood for their beautiful U-Pick flowers. Emery and Lindsay were really into the flower picking and carried around their bounty in a cute little basket. Ayden on the other hand caught sight of a large John Deere tractor. Heather had managed to get him to hold ONE flower which he used as his pointer for naming the various parts of the tractor. Needless to say, Mommy didn’t get to walk away with a boquet of flowers as intended. I spent the whole time trying to keep Ayden from climbing up on the darn tractor! Oy vey!
This past Wednesday saw the arrival of Grandma Gail, Nanna and Grandee up from California for a visit. Over the past several days we’ve dragged everyone to Pump It Up (a bouncy castle activity center designed for kids under 6 years old), Safari Sam’s (largest indoor jungle gym in the West), the local parks and recreation district’s Big Truck Day (a large exhibit of trucks, tractors, emergency and construction vehicles, school and city buses, etc, etc, etc), and the Clackamas County Fair and Rodeo! Wow! We really have been busy! The rain has slowed us down for today and we’re finally laying low at home. You can see photos from all of these recent events in the two new galleries (one and two). Enjoy!
Boys, boys, boys! This is my life! We spent a second weekend at the tractor show. Was it fun the second time around? Of course! But was Mommy tempted to turn left off the freeway exit instead, following the signs to the Oregon Garden? YOU BET! Oh well, I have come to grips with the fact that I now live in a world of boys and I better get used to tractors, trucks, dirt, noise, etc. You know, in reality, I wouldn’t change it for the world!
These are just too cute and funny not to share with you all…
Mommy sits in Ayden’s room playing toys with him and takes advantage of an educational opportunity, as all good parents should. I do a sing-song version of counting from one to ten.
Mommy: “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, teeeeeeeeeen! Come on Ayden, count with me! One, two, three, four, five - ”
Ayden: “NO MOMMY! STOP IT! STOP IT! NO SINGING!!!”
Mommy: “Why don’t you want me to sing, Sweet?”
Ayden: “It’s gross.”
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Overheard… whenever Ayden talks on his pretend cell phone. He says the following in one long string of words, with hardly any pauses.
“Hi! What’s your name? Charlotte’s Web? Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh……”