Oregon Coast Aquarium

We packed our bags and headed to the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport on Tuesday.
It was so much fun! It was the first time for us to go there, I had gone when I was a kid.
They have such neat fish! Then we went to the beach and played, it was beautiful out.
Here are a bunch of photos of our fun day, click here.

Summer is coming to an end

We are making sure the sun! Here are some photos of Ash and Dori on there bike and at the park.

Dorian meditating on top of the slide!

Playing tag with mum.

Little monkey.

Last but not least, Gappy!

2 new rides

I got a new bike and we got a new (to us) car! We got it from my mom's work at wholesale for CHEAP! Its a 1999 Suburu Outback, how fitting, right?

Out of the coffee biz for good

Ashar is starting a new job soon and it is not with coffee! He only has been slingin' out coffee for the past 7 years! The new owners are running the shop on there own now.

Minus one

I took this photo on the 14th when he finally figured out his tooth was loose!
We had known for weeks as I noticed when I was flossing his teeth.
Then on the 16th, he was minus one tooth!

This is he tooth box he left under his pillow we got him. The tooth fairy left his $5! That is one cool tooth fairy! Now we have to make sure he does not yank all is other ones out to make money!

We now call him Gappy.

First lemonade stand!

We had a garage sale at our house and Dorian (with our help) did is first lemonade stand!
He had alot of fun doing it. Grandma & papa were his 1st customers. He did not say a single word to the customers, but gladly took there money and gave them change when needed. He made around $20 selling lemonade, soda, water and cookies. He even made us pay for our drinks and cookies we ate, even though WE paid for the stuff. He is like the soup nazi, hahah!

County Fair

We headed to the county fair last week, it was great fun as always.
We played carnival games, saw the animals, ate fairy floss (AKA: cotton candy) and a HUGE and delicious elephant ear!
Here are photos, click here.

Tired

I found this quote and thought it was oohhh so true!

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. ~Leo J. Burke

6 years

Dorian had his 6th birthday on Aug 3!
We had a wonderful birthday party for him. He had heaps of fun.
Here are lots of photos, just click here.

He is fun

Just some new random photos. Click here. Enjoy!

Our cheeky monkey!

Weekend at the beach!

We had so much fun at the beach, too bad we can't live right down the road from it. That would be wonderful. Well, I guess we would have to move to Australia as the Oregon Coast has a very short "nice weather" time. We had beautiful weather when we were at the beach though!
Here are a bunch of photos from our weekend at the beach, just click here!

Just Married!

We went to the coast for our brother Matt's wedding.
The wedding was beautiful. I was lucky enough to take all the photos!
Here are a few for you to view. Enjoy!

Ash (Best Man) and Matt (Groom)

Getting married!

The newlyweds with Jailynn there daughter.

Puppy on the front porch!?!

During brekkie on Thur 17th the kids were looking out the window and they said look 2 dogs!
I went out and sure enough 2 dogs were outside. The puppy stayed at our front porch and the big lab ran off. So, we were left with a pup. I called the dog shelter and put ads up on our local Craigslist. I was worried that this pup was going to be with us longer than a day. I waited for Ash to get home and ran and put up fliers and while I was out a guy ran to me with the flier and said "he is mine!". Drove back home and let the kids say goodbye to Bud (the owner told me his name) and the kids gave him kisses and yelled out "Byyyee Bud!". It was a very exciting day.
Here is Bud.

He does sleep..

Growing up..

Happy 4th Of July!

Another wonderful 4th of July!
We had some of our family in from California and it was so wonderful to see all of them again.
The 4th went wonderful and the kids had so much fun.
Here are a bunch of photos, just click here.

Playing

Yes, that is 7 kiddos I was watching all together.

Dorian the dare devil!

Chillin'

Dorian's cousin's Meagan and Shelby.

S'mores!

Finally nice enough to use the fire pit! We made some s'mores, and they were yummy!

Dorian has his famous eye protection (goggles) on.

Summer is..

Just some photos I took the past few days that I just love.
Click here for more.