Life in Oregon

Okay, so who wouldn't love living here, when you live only 25-30 minutes from this? Plus at least 10-15 other waterfalls. We spent Memorial Day hiking not far from our apartment and it was Breathtaking! Our Crazy Tayson! Boys will be boys. If you didn't know, Tayson LOVES waterfalls! He has ever since we went to Yellowstone last summer. The only thing he has on his wall in his bedroom is a large poster of a waterfall in Yellowstone. We took him to a gift shop in Yellowstone, and all he wanted was a poster and postcards of waterfalls. Talk about easy souvenir shopping. So of course we stopped by Silver Falls Lodge and he requested yet another postcard to add to his waterfall collection.

A hallow tree trunk that the boys had fun climbing into for a picture.

The boys and I while hiking. Tayson hiked the entire time, and Camden, almost the entire time. They were quite the troopers. We only went probably 2 1/2- 3 miles of the 9 mile hike, but for two little guys, that was just long enough.

The Friday after we got here we went to the A.C. Gilbert Discovery Center (or something like that). Basically a children's Museum, with a couple old houses full of different rooms (bubble room, grocery store, etc) and a massive playground outside in the middle. With the Biggest tube slide Tayson had ever seen. He even went down it (not a huge surprise considering he is our fearless child however).

The boys favorite room of course was the bubble room. Check out this last picture if you click on it to enlarge it, you will see the excitement on Camden's face after popping a bubble over and over again.

The Saturday after we arrived, we went with my sister-in-law and niece to the Iris Festival. It was a LONG parade, and the boys were getting restless until they saw THIS! The "BIGGEST Monster Truck I ever did saw." (Tayson's words). The boys were in Heaven! It made the entire parade and wait worth it to see this near the end. They LOVE monster trucks.

Well, needless to say, so far we LOVE IT HERE! When we first arrived it was sunny and hot for about 5 days (95 degrees), but since then it has cooled down and we have had the opportunity to experience a little of Oregon's rainy days. Its been pretty enjoyable so far. It rained a little while we were hiking, but it isn't a bothersome rain, more of a mist. We LOVE our apartment, and Brady just got his bike fixed (after 3 years) and Tayson is LOVING going on bike rides with Daddy. He waits all day for Brady to get home to go. Just around the apartment complex for now, but he is quite the little rider. Just got to keep him focused on watching where he is going, rather than turning his head around to say hi or to look at something. AHHH! It is so nice to have Brady come home from work and not have hours of homework and studying each night. The bummer is that in order to get an Oregon drivers license you have to take the written test again. Brady was SO disappointed to hear that after he just finished studying and taking his boards. He has no desire to take anymore TESTS! Oh well. Sorry it took so long for me to get pictures up, thanks for the push Brit! I'll try to be better. Our problem is that Brady got a new camera for graduation because he wants to get into photography, but now he is the one taking pictures, etc, so I then had to wait for him to get his programs up and running and the pictures downloaded. I know I have pics of the boys just hanging out around our apartment complex, but I can't find our other camera. I'll keep looking.