Memorial Day Weekend

We had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! We went up to Portland on Friday and on Saturday we went camping near Portland for our friend Jeremy's surprise 30th birthday party. It was a lot of fun because there was a whole crew of us there. We hung out into the wee hours of Sunday before hitting the sleeping bag (Ryan and I tented it while Steve and Sue had the girls in the Motor home with them). We stayed Sunday night as well. The place was really neat, lots of room for the kids to roam, and pretty safe because we were in a group camp site and so there wasn't any traffic. Sierra made a friend; a little 4 year old named Kailynn (pronounced Kay-lynn, which is what we almost named Kayleigh).

This first picture is of Trenton, Jeremy and Erika's little one, playing in the sprinkler. Sierra wasn't so sure about the sprinkler. She kinda liked it, but didn't really want to get wet. I think she liked the idea more than the actual act of playing in the sprinkler!

Rory tried to motivate the kids to run through the sprinkler by demonstrating himself!

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Kayleigh liked the water dropplets at first...

but got a little scared when Grandpa tried to get her to go in farther!

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I love this picture of Sierra, just chillin close enough to feel the water but not close enough to really get wet!

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Here is Grandpa taking Kayleigh on a run through the sprinkler.

And here they are again, just hanging out!

Rory again, making daisy chains for Sierra. How sweet!

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Sierra and Kailynn with their "Princess" daisy chain crowns.

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Kayleigh petty Matt and Mary's awesome dog Nala. So amazingly behaved and gentle with the little ones!

Of course a picture of Grandpa relaxing with Sierra!

Ryan and Rory playing horseshoes (there really were other people there, a lot of people, Rory just happened to be in a lot of pictures!)

Sierra cuddling with Mary. She loves Mary so much! Good thing Mary loves her too!

Back at Grandma and Grandpa's in the hot tub. Or the "Top Tub" as Sierra calls it!

Sierra let Ryan dunk her!!!!!!!

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I love Kayleigh's smile!

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And down Kayleigh goes! If you blow in a baby's face they will hold their breath for a few seconds. So this was safe, ok? No freaking out! She's really ok doing it!

Well, I hope you enjoyed all our pictures! Of course there were none of me, but I am getting used to that :) I hope you all had wonderful weekends as well. And of course, thank you to all who have served in our armed services or lost someone who served. We would not get wonderful weekends like this, or the freedoms we enjoy, without their dedicated service! Thank you and God Bless!