Summer Time

We had a lot of fun in the sun while we had it this summer!  Here are some pics to help us remember the sunshine we won't see again until next summer:

We went to Wildlife Safari which was really fun, we drove through and saw all sorts of fun animals, giraffes, zebras, lions, elephants, tigers, bears, birds, snakes, pretty much everything.  Then we walked through the pedistrian portion of it where there was a train ride and OF COURSE we had to ride on it, the kids are obsessed with trains!  You can tell from the picture below Bella is amazed :)

Grayson likes to get up WAY too early, like before the sun comes up...there are days this is my only relief:

But then I get these two cuties:

We went to the lake a few times this summer, Bella loves getting in the water and splashing.  Grayson just seems to enjoy throwing things into it.  Silly kids.

Bella's first time on a sail boat, not a good pic but that is all I could get while holding onto Grayson.

 

We went to the lake to celebrate the 4th of July with Mark and Lisa and family, Grandma and Grandpa and a few of our good friends, the Hallocks and Johnsons.  It was a lot of fun and all the kids REALLY enjoyed being in the sun and water all day.  We also had lots of good eats!

 

Yeah, three canopies barely covered us all, I thought it was pretty funny.

 

We also spent a lot of time in the backyard in our little wading pool to keep cool.  I just love this picture of Bella.

 

We also spend a ginormous amount of time at many different parks.  The kids love to play at any park.  They make friends with everybody and anybody.  In fact there have been a couple different instances where Bella wroped some tween aged boys into doing her bidding and a pack of 8 year old girls were following Grayson around.  It was just very funny.  To Bella everyone is a friend and if she doesn't know you, you are a future friend, it is that simple.  I hope she never loses that.

We went camping near Crater Lake.  Dave had never been and it was such a great campout, we had a blast and it was really hot!

 

We took our Labor day holiday day trip near Salem to Silver Falls.  There are a bunch of different falls and we hiked to a couple of them.  It was a lot of fun and we had some new friends, David and Danielle Hitz, accompany us!  The kids actually did a lot of hiking too, they like exploring especially if water is involved.