Weekend In Review
Fathers Day Weekend
(a little late, but eh...what the heck)
We had a pretty low key but eventful weekend if that makes sense.
Bennett was very excited to celebrate his daddy!
He pretty much thinks his dad is the best.
Chris teaches him to do lots of stuff like play the guitar.
We walked down the park blocks and ate at a new restaurant called
Violetta...and it was oh so good!
I got a cob salad and Chris got the turkey club burger. We also split the tastiest sweet potato fries. I never remember to take pictures of my food because I'm so excited to eat it once it comes. Oops!
Afterwards, we walked over to get some coffee at Stumptown
and hang out at the Ace for a bit.
Took some pictures
And did the photobooth which is always fun!
That night my mom came and watched Bennett while Chris and I went on a little movie date. We saw "Date Night" at the McMenamins Mission Theater. The theater is so close to us but we never knew it was there. It was so cool! The only downside is that they don't have any fries, tots or ice cream (the best part of McMenamins!)
Sunday morning we went to church.
Bennett had a blast playing in the nursery as always.
Afterwards, he practiced being a rockstar.
Then we went bowling with my dad, siblings and niece and nephew for Fathers Day.
I decided two things:
1. it's impossible to look cool bowling.
2. no matter how good you are at Wii bowling, you probably aren't good at it in real life.
Chris and my nephew Lukas:
The best part (besides the shoes) was that they were playing 90's music and Chris and I were having a contest to see who could name the band first. I dominated. Big time.
Family photo:
And that was our weekend.
The sun is out in Portland (finally) so we are headed out!
Weekend In Review
This weekend was so nice and felt so long for once!
Bennett realized that he loves jumping and spinning in his "Johnny Jump Up":
Chris kicked butt at his half marathon!
He took 40th out of 3500 people!
We had a picnic with friends at an amazing park a few miles away
that has a sweet water area for kids.
As I was getting out picnic food ready, I noticed that I cut a really cool shape as I was cutting the rind off of the watermelon. I had to take a picture, cause I couldn't save it obviously:
This is Bennett's friend Duke who is 5.5 weeks older.
Bennett wanted to play rough. Duke didn't.
Duke is tall and skinny and Bennett is short and chunky.
I LOVE his chubs!
Duke poking Bennett's eye out:
Bennett eating a leaf:
(mmm crunchy)
Even his rolls have rolls!
So sweet:
Water time!
Animals can have style too
I've been looking around for some new food/water dishes for Scout and Ember.
I came across some really ugly ones, but also some pretty cool ones:
(I think we are going to go with the top one, but if we were ridiculously wealthy we would get one of the two below it!)
Weekend In Review:
Memorial Day Weekend
On Memorial Day Weekend, we always go down to Medford, where I lived for eleven years before moving to college. I have no family down there anymore, but the next best thing is family friends!
Chris got off work early, so we headed out around lunchtime.
We rarely eat fast food, but we told ourselves we were now on vacation, so on our way out of town we grabbed some delish
Burgerville.
Fresh Strawberry milkshakes and Tillamook cheeseburgers=amazing!
4.5 hours later, we got down to Medford (if you aren't sure where that is, it's about 20miles from the Northern California border.)
Dana and I have been friends for 17 years (ever since she saw me riding my pink splatter-painted Huffy around in my pink, lace-trimmed spandex) ( I had just moved to Medford and was trying to impress and make some friends, okay?!)
We always stay at her parent's house and Dana comes and stays too. They are the most generous people ever and they love us like family. They always make huge meals and never let us pay for anything. Chris especially loves their GIANT movie collection and theater room!
Dana and I being civil:
Demonstrating how we used to fight like sisters:
(I may or may not have kicked/punched her a few times when we were little)
We spent an afternoon at Dana's family's cabin at Lake of the Woods. We were just there for a birthday party, so no boat action for us this year. It was still nice to sit on the dock in the sun for a while. I want teleport back though this picture:
A lot of our time was spent in the pool back at the house. It's a fresh-water pool which is awesome because I'm not sure how Bennett's sensitive skin would handle chlorine.
This was his first time in a pool and he absolutely loved it!
He loved splashing.
(when he splashed, it went up into his face, which he was not fond of)
And he loved lounging in his floaty thing.
Getting sleepy:
Raisin feet!
Call us dorks, but when we weren't swimming or sleeping, we were watching the first 10 episodes of Glee that we hadn't seen yet.
There was also some Wii bowling, DQ Blizzards and a lot of good food involved.
