Dallas Summerfest Parade

Celebrating Auntie Crystal's 27th birthday!

The Dallas fire station puts on a show at the summerfest using water hoses and go carts...its pretty cool, and the boys especially thought it was awesome...Ben was very excited :)

Emma and Austin watching the firefighters

Our "dinner" at Summerfest... Cotton Candy, Hawaiian Shaved Ive, and Elephant Ear...it was a VERY LATE NIGHT :)

Benjamin just before the sugar high hits him... he is so messy when he eats :)

Sandy's Striders ready to hit the parade route! We had a great time walking in the parade again this year, in memory of Sandy Wilcke... the kids had so much fun riding scooters, waving, handing out flyers and throwing candy!

Cousins with their parade ribbons...

20 week ultrasound!

I'm working on trying to get the ultrasound picture on here, but I'm having a hard time...so for now, I'll just update everyone! We had our 20 week ultrasound on Tuesday, and everything looks great! The baby is healthy and growing, and moving around A LOT! But sorry everyone, we didn't find out if we have a boy or girl in there, we're going to be suprised! You'll have to wait until around the 10th of December for the big debut :) Get the guesses coming though.... for the record, Dave thinks its going to be a girl, I think its going to be a boy.... we'll see.... But, all in all, we're so happy that everything is going good, and can't believe we're halfway to meeeting this new little person!

Central Oregon Trip

We are back from our fun vacation in Central Oregon, and its hard to get back to reality... we had a great time, and the kids had a blast! I have to say though, that this mom has had enough tent camping for awhile :) We went down to Redmond and spent time with Dave's brother Mark and his family.. for three of the days we headed up to East Lake to do some camping, hiking and fishing...here are some pics from our trip!

Two goofballs by the sign leading in to our campground

hiking the trails

Dave and Emma swimming in the lake

Lucas and Emma roasting some hot dogs

Emma and Benjamin contemplating life at East Lake

Roscoe and benny taking a dip

Lucas with the fish!

Emma with the one fish we caught :)

The dogs (Bandit and Roscoe) guarding the tents :)

Dave and Lucas driving the boat

Lucas enjoying his Smores

I'm SO DIRTY- AND I LOVE IT! (we couldn't keep Ben clean the whole time!)

Emma being a daredevil

Aunt Thuy and Emma after a round of putt-putt golf

Benjamin hanging out in the lake

Camping at Mt. Rainier National Park

We are back from one of our campimg trips, and getting ready to head out for another one! We spent this last weekend at Cougar Rock Campground in Mt. Rainier National Park with Adam and Bridget. We had a great time, and the weather was really good until Sunday morning (when it rained on us)... next we head to Redmond to go camping with Dave's other brother Mark and his family...its an adventure!

view from our campsite

Cozy tent

Emma and Benjamin taking a dip in the lake

Ben hydrating :)

Mt. Rainier

Group picture (minus Emma who took it :)...Adam, Bridget, Me, Dave and Ben

Ben at Paradise on Mt. Rainier

And we even got to play in some snow!

Uncle Adam cooking up some chicken over the fire

sleepy kids...i think we wore them out!

4th of July and hanging out

We headed down to Dallas and Lincoln City for the 4th, and had a good time hanging out with the Bodine/Winters clan... the cousins got to spend a lot of time having fun..

Emma loves her cousin Charlie

Crystal and Charlie swinging

Cousins by the Rickreall Creek (Ben, Jack, Austin and Emma)

Emma

Benjamin

playing at the park

Dave showing Ben how to do sparklers

Sisters plus Charlie

Mom, Grandma and Crystal cookin up some 4th of July goodies!

The kiddos filling up before heading to see fireworks!