Summer Fun..

We have had a really busy summer this year. Lots of fun stuff crammed into the hot days and we have been loving it. We went to the Hillsboro Airshow which was tons of fun, both boys love their airplanes. I was too slow to take any good pictures of the planes but here is one from the Monster Truck ride we went on. I think they maybe even liked that even better than the planes...

We have been spending alot of time in the garden and have beans and zucchini's galore. We have had quite a few cherry tomatoes and little pear tomatoes but the big ones are just hanging there green and ready for a few more days of sunshine. But the beans, my goodness. I can't keep up with picking them let alone figuring out new ways to cook them, etc. We mostly eat them raw the boys love them this way and so do I.

Kevin turned 30 yesterday and last weekend I had a little surprise party for some of his friends & family. It was really fun, even though Kevin had sort of figured out something was up on his way down to the restaurant and wasn't like totally blown over with surprise which is what I wanted but it was fun. The theme was James Bond and we had different food stations from all over the world, martini glasses for the candle holders, really neat and fun.

On Wednesday night Kevin and I went to see Jack Johnson up in St. Helens. The show was excellent and we had a great time. It is an outdoor venue and it was a beautiful night, a few sprinkles here and there but no real rain which was great. We hit a huge traffic jam on the way to the concert though and ended up being an hour and a half late but Jack had not even started when we got there so I was soo relieved.

Also happening this week.. Kevin won a four-wheeler. At Cash-n-Carry where he buys alot of his beverages for work (RockStar) they were having a drawing and he won. So we are now the proud owners of a custom RoskStar mini (holds 210 lbs) 4-wheeler. It is too big for Carter to ride, and a little small for Kevin.. guess that means it is mine for now. :) I was cruising around on it in the backyard and the boys are beyond excited. We will have to scope out a good place to go riding around here and take them out someday soon. After helmets are purchased of course..

Camping..

We got back from our first camping trip of the year yesterday. It was a great trip.. We went to a new (to us) spot called Little Cultus Lake campground. It is about 20 miles from Sunriver in the Deschutes Ntl. Forest. It was just beautiful and had great spots for the kids to swim.



The first night we got there and got all set up only to find that there were TONS of mosquitos. The camp host mentioned to us that the mosquitos were way better in a different part of the campground so we moved everything to a new spot the next morning and it was alot better.

We had a great time swimming, floating in our raft, roasting marshmallows, all the fun camping stuff. There were alot of chipmunks around which the boys loved and there was one that hung around our spot that had one eye poked out. Carter called him "one eyed mater" which has something to do with the movie Cars of course, not sure how the one eye thing figures in. But anyhow he was really cute, here he is...

We camped Sund. - Wed. and had quite a bit of thunder and lightning on Wed afternoon/evening. We kept seeing forest service trucks going up the road past our campground (really, really primitive road, like old logging road, our truck could barely make it up there). Anyhow, the camp host came over later in the evening and told us there were two small fires about 5 miles up the road and that the Forest Service was going to send smoke jumpers up in the morning.. I was like what, in the morning? I didn't know you could just wait when there was a fire... we slept ok, didn't have to high tail it out in the middle of the night or anything. But when we woke up on Thursday the lighting was really really close and it started to rain and even hail at one point so we packed it up and headed for a hotel in Bend. After a shower of course (did I mention, no showers, yikes) we headed to the outlet stores and dinner at the Deschutes Brewery. I think that is Kevin's favorite place on earth. We had a fun time there the next day too, walking around downtown Bend, swimming in the pool, etc. Then we headed for home Friday evening. Good to be back, now it is time to tackle the mountain of laundry..