Our Weekend in Astoria with Josh, Katie, Collin and Hadley

We took off last weekend to stay and Katie's parent's home in Astoria and we had a wonderful time! Here are a ton of pictures from our trip (also check out the pictures katie added to facbook. She got some really great shots!):

Saturday

Hadley was pretty excited about my camera

Leah could run and run in their backyard all weekend long

Mason was really excited to play with Collin again

Collin and his Grandpa

Leah's fort

Katie's dad somehow talked me into letting everyone try out the ATVs. It was a lot of fun, even if it did make me nervous.

Campfire and Marshmellows

Katie's dad made a fire in the backyard and we roasted marshmellows over it. It is so beautiful out there, without the city lights. All the stars were crystal clear and beautiful.

Sunday-Trip to the Beach

This was my favorite trip to the Oregon Coast. It was pretty warm, even though it was right before sunset and their was hardley any wind. The kids played in the water while they watched the sun set. It so beautiful that I had to include all the pictures that we took:

The last picture of the day, just as the sun set:)

Thanks Josh and Katie!

Happy 8th Anniversary! (Holy cow! Time sure does fly by!)

We took off on Monday on a trip for our anniversary and we had a wonderful time! We stayed at the Skamania Lodge and did some fun things around the Columbia River Gorge.

OUR HORSE BACK RIDING ADVENTURE

After we checked into the hotel, we took off to go horse back riding. We had a lot of fun and we would like to bring Leah back to ride here as well (she was crying because we got to ride horses and we didn't take her with us). We started off on the 1 hour long ride, and half way through, our horses stopped and wouldn't go any further. Joe looked into the woods and saw a black bear! We turned the horses around and took another trail for the rest of the ride, which was really beautiful! The trail went down into the woods, through a creek and up onto an old logging road with absolutely beautiful views!

The people who own this horse back riding company live on 30 beautiful acres and have 26 horses! Here I am petting the horses while we wait to ride our horses.

Here is Joe riding "Curly Sue"

Here is me on "Rocky"
The little girl behind me is living Leah's dream:) She gets to ride a horse anytime she wants to.

My hoses walk was so bumpy that I had bruises by the end of the ride.

Here is a view from the ride. It was so beautiful!

Here we are at the end of our ride.

DINNER AT SKAMANIA LODGE

Ok, we took almost all of the pictures of the two of us ourselves. Here we are right before we went down to dinner.

We thought that the food was really good!

DAY 2-MULTNOMAH FALLS

We can't drive through the Gorge without stopping by Multnomah Falls. We ate hot dogs for lunch and hiked up to the bridge.


ONEONTA FALLS

Here we are about to go down and hike Oneonta! I hadn't done this hike in a long time and we had a great time!

The fun part of this hike is you get to get wet:)

Here we are, all wet.

Here is the view at the end of the hike.

Our conclusion at the end of this trip: WE NEED TO GET AWAY MORE OFTEN! We had a blast and the kids had a super fun time at Grandma's house.

Bransen's Baby Blessing

Here is my handsome new nephew, Bransen! Last weekend, I took a trip to Rexburg, Idaho to be there for his baby blessing and I am so glad that I got to go:) (This was my very first trip without Joe or the kids.) I had a wonderful time and I could have held little Bransen all weekend long!

Now focus in on little Bransen's outfit. Brenda made his entire blessing outfit (without a pattern I might add), including the blanket and he looked very handsome! Brenda did a great job!!!

Brent, Brenda and Bransen

Me and goofy Dad as we were getting into the car to head off to church

Me and Mom (this was taken by Carson and apparently he takes his camera everywhere, including church)

Dad and Grandma Doty

Dad, Me, Brenda and Bransen, Brent, Carson and Mom

Uncle Carson and Bransen