Good Times

We have had waaaayyyy too much rain lately, it is depressing! The other day I went to a meeting and on the way there was this huge downpour and just running from the car to the house made me look like I had just gotten out of the shower! We have had 4 inches of rain in June, and the previous record was 1 inch! At least we have had a couple of good days, and on those days we have taken advantage by spending time outside. Like another parade! Two weeks in a row.
Dave went on a father's and sons campout last Friday night so Saturday morning I decided to venture to downtown Portland and take the 2 girls by myself to the Rose festival parade, and I'm so glad I did. They were both great, and when we got there, Sam instantly made friends by walking up to a group of kids and saying "can I play with you?" When the parade started she was asking for her "super hooray bag" but they didn't throw candy at this parade, which is just as well. The parade started with a couple of cross-dressers, Cher and Reba Mcintyre...I don't remember seeing any cross-dressers open for the Pioneer Days parade in Utah...I guess it's just a Portland thing :) We had a good time and it was so nice to be outside again.




Monday night we decided to go pick Strawberries at Sauvie Island. We love strawberry picking time, and so does Sam, because Strawberries are probably her favorite thing in the world. As we were picking them, I kept telling Sam to pick them and put them in the box. She would pick them, but they never made it to the box. I'm not quite sure exactly how many she ate total. Let's just say when we got home to eat dinner, she wasn't hungry.
That night of course we made our strawberry jam, ate more fresh strawberries, and then made yummy crepes the next night for dinner. That is definitely one thing I really enjoy about Oregon, going to pick your own fresh delicious fruit for really cheap!




Here are just some other random pics from the last month I have been meaning to post.


her 2 month old pic. Super Baby!


Happy Faces! She has a very big happy smile!

Finally a Break in the Rain

And what a perfect day to finally get some sunshine! The weather here has been absolutely dismal, but lucky for us, we had a very sunny day yesterday...and then of course today going to church, it was back to buckets of rain.
Friday night we drove down to Lebanon, Oregon with our good friends the Palomins to stay the night at Doreen's dad's house for the night. He is renting it out and it was empty so we slept on blow up mattresses for the night and there was no furniture, but we didn't need it. It is located in a very pretty part of Oregon up on the hill in Lebanon, and Sodaville, OR population: 303 In the mornings and evenings they have turkeys...that's right wild turkeys that walk through their yard up to the trees, and then back in the evening. A few came through in the early morning when we were there but I missed them because we were still sleeping.

We went to the Strawberry Festival down there, which included a huge parade in the morning of about 140 floats. Sam's favorite thing was collecting the fliers people would hand out and putting them in her "super hooray bag!" (she thought "parade" was "hooray") They also had the worlds largest strawberry shortcake there too, it was huge! And what's a festival without a carnival full of deep fried Snickers, popcorn, and a bunch of rides that Sam had so much fun riding.

We had a wonderful time with Robert, Doreen, and Jessica and hope that they still like us after spending and overnighter together! Good times!