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| Abby and Uncle Jon (we think...) :) |
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| The serious Birthday Girl... |
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| Held by Aunt Linda and fed by Dad. Can life get any better?! |
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| Eat it or wear it. Or maybe both. |
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| Enjoying her new wading pool from Uncle Jon and Aunt Holly |
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| At Lavender Days |
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| Not so sure about the pony ride. We'll work on that. |
Kristen and Abby have spent some time in California and Oregon the last couple of weeks (I was only able to get away from work for a couple of days last weekend). I'll let Kristen post about California and the time they spent in Oregon when I wasn't there, but I had a BLAST in Sun River with most of Kristen's family last weekend!
I got in Saturday evening after a long, early day of work. Kristen and Devin picked me up at the airport in Redmond, OR and drove me back to Sun River. We stopped at a couple of caves that are right by the Redmond airport that I remembered seeing on one of my runs there almost two years ago and explored for a few minutes. Wish we'd had more time, more flashlights, and that I wasn't wearing slacks and a white shirt!
Sunday we went to church and enjoyed some great people from central Oregon and in the afternoon went on a walk - okay, so that was the idea, but Kristen and Abby and I ended up "walking" for somewhere around two hours... I've decided you're only lost if you don't know where you are going. It has nothing to do with knowing exactly where you are! :) To our credit, we did follow the sign that said "Benham Falls," and we did end up at Benham Falls eventually. It was just a longer walk than planned. Shoulda' know when Kristen said she had done it with Nate (Ogden) as a quick run that it would end up being pretty long... :)
Monday we canoed/kayaked down the Deschutes river and had a lot of fun swinging off rope swings into the water and cursing ourselves for not bringing fly-fishing gear! There were trout rising everywhere!
Oh, yeah... Abby had her first run-in with the law on Monday, too. We had decided to go on a bike ride. There were a bunch of bikes and a bike trailer (for kids), so we loaded up most of the girls and took off down the trail. I saw a bike officer approaching and thought, "man, I'm glad I got Abby to wear that helmet," only to turn around and notice that it was nowhere to be seen. Don't ask me how that officer saw through the mesh panel of the bike trailer and spotted it so quick, but I was sent packing with Abby in one arm, and pushing the bike with the other... which worked fine until Abby decided she wanted to walk, too.
All in all, it was a great escape for a couple of days to enjoy being with family, great food, the outdoors (I saw more deer than people on my morning run), and NO WORK!
Hopefully Kristen will post some of the pictures she took from Sun River. I basically came straight from work, so no camera...
Monday we canoed/kayaked down the Deschutes river and had a lot of fun swinging off rope swings into the water and cursing ourselves for not bringing fly-fishing gear! There were trout rising everywhere!
Oh, yeah... Abby had her first run-in with the law on Monday, too. We had decided to go on a bike ride. There were a bunch of bikes and a bike trailer (for kids), so we loaded up most of the girls and took off down the trail. I saw a bike officer approaching and thought, "man, I'm glad I got Abby to wear that helmet," only to turn around and notice that it was nowhere to be seen. Don't ask me how that officer saw through the mesh panel of the bike trailer and spotted it so quick, but I was sent packing with Abby in one arm, and pushing the bike with the other... which worked fine until Abby decided she wanted to walk, too.
All in all, it was a great escape for a couple of days to enjoy being with family, great food, the outdoors (I saw more deer than people on my morning run), and NO WORK!
Hopefully Kristen will post some of the pictures she took from Sun River. I basically came straight from work, so no camera...
