Welcome to Oregon!

So Greg and Lois came and picked us up in the 15 passenger van, then we went and picked up Abby and Tara and then headed out of town around 8:00 last night.

We arrived safely in Portland about 13.5 hrs later.

We drove through the Colombia Gorge just as it was getting light this morning.

Personally, I like the shots with the bugs splattered all over the windshield.

I had to take all the pictures through the windows while we were driving.

Not really an easy thing to do.

While driving along the river, there were a couple of places where there would be skid marks and then a huge dent in the guardrail.

I can't even imagine, that's like one of my worst nightmares.

But, as I said, we arrived safely. :-)

Mostly I was worried about how the kids were going to handle that long of a trip.

They are used to to traveling quite a bit

but our trips are usually only 4-5 hours max.

They did awesome though!

Hopefully, we'll be able to say the same about our Sunday trip back home.

I think I'm starting to understand

.....why

I find myself calling Aidan, "Caleb".

We're headed to Portland tonight for Karisa and Todd's wedding (Very reminiscent of a trip we did 3 years ago, the same weekend). Except instead of Shawn and Chad coming, we'll be driving for 12+ hrs with both kids. (YES! We're insane.) I know, I know, our parents used to do that all the time with many kids. Yeah, well, they are/ were insane too. ;-)

Pray for us and those we're traveling with. Hee.

Bright Spot

Most of this week has been spent trying (unsucessfully) to clean up the place before we leave for our trip tomorrow. It kind of feels like I just follow Aidan around and do damage control and pick up the mess the little whirlwind makes all while trying to do my day-to-day stuff too.

Today was especially bad and I was frustrated since I need to spend most of tomorrow packing, not cleaning. Bah. Anyway, my little blessings were both finally asleep for their afternoon nap so I was folding laundry and catching up on some of my shows (thank goodness for DVR!) when the UPS guy dropped off a package. I was thinking to myself that I wasn't expecting a package until next week, so I was curious.

Hello.

         Chocolate really does make everything better.

Thanks Amanda! That was extremely thoughtful of you. :-)

Sukkot (Part 3)

Little Dancers

Men Dancers :-)

Flying Myims (Myams?)

In case you're wondering, Cary has decided that this is the look he's going to give me whenever I take a photograph of him. :-)

Processional

Dad and Steve rocking it

Father Abraham gone wild

Sam enjoying it all

Meghan, Kenton, Dad, Jerald

Meghan was teaching a dance and Kyle kept showin off. :-)  (Kyle is a ballet dancer)

Food time again, my favorite time of the day.

Kenneth is going to love me for this one. Hi Ken!

There's that look again...

Peek

A

Boo!

To see ALL the photos from the weekend go here.

For those wondering... Yes, we did take Aidan back to the doctor (AGAIN!!!!) and at this point we're treating him for a sinus infection. His lungs and ears are fine, so hopefully this pinpoints why he has been coughing so hard. We're ready to all be well, but that may be asking a lot considering it's just the beginning of cold and flu season. :-)