Jack's B-day

So we celebrated Jack's birthday with the family after we got back from our trip. I made him the elephant cake because I thought it might be the last year I could get away with it and it's yellow because that is his favorite color!

Bubble machine! One of his favorites.

Guess what we'll be doing soon!

Multnomah Falls and more!

Monday we drove out to Hood River.

The Columbia River highway scenic drive is beautiful and full of water falls. We stopped at multnomah and a couple others on the way.

Multnomah Falls

On the walk up to the bridge

View from the bridge

Wakeenah Falls

Tuesday we went to The Grotto, a catholic sanctuary right in the middle of the city.

We also visited Vancouver fort which turned out not to be so much a fort as it was a giant department store at the end of the Oregon Trail. They traded with the Indians and decided they needed protection from settlers who ran out of supplies. But pretty cool anyway.

The doctors house

Up in the Bastion. All the cannons were pointed inside the fort.....Hmmm......

A few from the wedding

We were in Portland for Mark and Amie's wedding. Congrats guys!

Cooling off in the river after the ceremony. They were spelling out M + A. Yes there was wine involved.

And the handstand.....

Happy Birthday Jack!

We celebrated Jack's 2nd birthday at the Oregon zoo today. Our good friends Tim, Anja, Chase and Kardyn drove up from Medford to spend the day with us.

The people who serve the breakfast buffet at our hotel gave Jackson this balloon and a piece of cake this morning when we went down for breakfast.

We rode the train at the zoo which is all Jackson really cared about

Anja, Chase and Kardyn

We also went to the Rose garden at Washington Park

Cannon Beach

We're in Oregon this weekend for a wedding. Yesterday we went to Cannon beach and saw haystack rock.

Jackson's first time at the ocean

Today we took a tram ride to an overlook above the city.

Pineview

We went to Pineview reservoir Sunday for Tim's birthday. Can't say it was the friendliest spot for windsurfers. They weren't going to let us park our trailers because they weren't "boat" trailers. Then they eventually decided we could park them after we said we wanted our money back. It was quite confusing but eventually we made it to the beach. That's all the kids cared about. It was a nice sandy beach and the reservoir was pretty but way too many motor boats and jet skis for such a small reservoir.

Okay, I know it looks like an empty lake but there really were a lot of boats!

Finally got him to wear the life vest

Jack and Sophia

Bear Lake

We went camping at Bear Lake with our friends Andy, Michelle and Sophia this week. Jackson loved the beach.

The view from our campsite

What's better than playing on the beach in your PJ's

Jack and Sophia in the bike trailer

We stopped to get raspberry shakes

The KOA campground where we rented the bikes had a bouncy thing for the kids. Jackson and Sophia LOVED it

Jackson, do you like camping?

Me windsurfing