Saturday, August 21, 2010

Oregon Trip

We flew up to Oregon to visit Devin's mom and family for five days. She lives on a 40 acre farm in Sherwood (about 40 minutes southwest of Portland). Kayla enjoyed helping Grandma Evi feed the chickens.



Kayla's first pony ride! At first she was a little hesitant. But after a while, she liked it and didn't want to come off!

Devin loves airplanes so on Friday, we went to the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum. Thanks to Evi who has a friend that works there, we got in for free! Seeing the Spruce Goose was pretty amazing. I had no idea how huge it was and that 95% of it was made of birch wood!

Kayla currently has a fascination with seat belts. She loves to buckle them all by herself.




Linae and Lance had us over for dinner later that evening and Kayla got to jump with Carson on their trampoline.
She also liked playing with their cat LaFonda.
Erica and Brian took us out boating Saturday afternoon on Hagg Lake.


On Sunday morning, we went to the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry. Lucky for us, it was free admission that weekend! Unfortunately, that also meant it was super crowded.
It was so much fun and worth paying to go again next time!

Kayla LOVES balls! So of course we had to go inside the ball room.

They had lots of exhibits and hands-on activities for kids.




















Voodoo Doughnut in downtown Portland is famous and ever since Devin and I saw it on the Food Network, we've been dying to go there. So here we are waiting in line at 3:30 pm in the hot sun!
Ahhh! Finally, we're inside!

The crazy menu...

After waiting in line for 40 minutes, we get to the counter and they've just sold out of the Bacon Maple Bars! We were so bumbed! So we just got a variety dozen.

Everyone came over for dinner Sunday to celebrate Carson's 2nd Birthday! Kayla and Carson teeter-totter while Elijah and Tyson swing.

Kayla's turn to swing.


Kayla meets MorMor (Devin's grandma) for the first time!
Too bad Kayla is the ONLY one not looking at the camera!

Four generations...

Playing in Grandma's sunflower patch with cousins Sydney, Ellie, and Nathan.

Thank you Grandma Evi and Grandpa Gary (and Milo the doggie)! We had a such great time!