Scenes from a Swimming Pool

It's nice to have all my kids in the pool in our backyard!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

End of Summer Fun

As an end of summer celebration with my brother and his family, we went to the brand new Evergreen Wings & Waves Waterpark in a neighboring city today.  This water park just opened in June and it is really nice and much awaited in our area.  The kids had a great time!

 

Yes, that's a real 747 on top of the building!  Do you see the small bank of windows behind the wing?  That's where the water slides start!

 

 

 

 

 

The boys climbing the stairs to the water slide.

 

Cousins!

 

Wordless Wednesday

Camping with the McD's

Before Buffy-chicken even had a chance to realize she was home again, we were off for a one night camping trip with our good friends, the McD's. We went to a small county campground about 20 minutes from our house. This one-nighter was a new adventure for us and it forced us to travel lite. You see, when we camp, we take everything including the kitchen sink. We usually stay for 3-4 nights and have most of the comforts of home, even a heater in our tent. This time we managed to fit everything and everyone into the pickup, including old Katy-dog who has never camped before. She did great, but was plenty pooped for an old girl. We are hoping that the McD's are proud of us for being able to not lug along all our usual junk!

Anyways, this campground has a creek running through it, and the kids spent most of their time down there playing in the water.

Lil Guhl finds a salamander . . . she loves 'em!

Throwing logs into the creek.

We will definitely be going back to this little spot for some relaxing fun near the creek.

Camping Trip 2009

We drove down to Jessie M. Honeyman Memorial State Park

last week for a 5 night camping trip. This park sits at the edge of the Oregon Dunes National Park. Both of my brothers and their families went too.
Here are a few highlights from a few things we did.

We visited the Sea Lion Caves. This was sort of neat, and I say sort of because it seemed overpriced for what it was. But at least now we can say we went, and will probably never need to go again.
We went on a scenic dune buggy ride. These big dune buggies are on a school bus chassis. We went back later and did the fast ride on the sand rails. You can see a picture of them at the website in the link above. (I didn't take any pictures during the fast ride because I was holding on for dear life!)

Lil Guhl and her daddy
(Those are my brothers to the left of my husband's head.)

Boyson and his mommy

Here's all the rest of our gang (except for the two ladies in the very back seat).

My nephew had a front row seat, and I was able to snap a few pictures of him in the rear view mirror.


Acres and acres of dunes . . . .
The kids got to ride the bumper boats there at Sandland Adventures fun park.

And some go-carts.

That's all folks . . .