Fourth of July

For the Fourth Bryant and I took the girls swimming and then we went to Scott and Trisha's apartment and had yummy hamburgers, thanks Scott. We played monopoly the card game, while Brooklyn watched a movie. Then we decided to go watch the fireworks in Portland. There was a car accident and the road was blocked. We ended up stopping at a cemetery at the top of a hill where a bunch of other people were at. It was really cool. We were standing in Oregon and watching the fireworks going off in Washington. There were tons. We enjoyed our 4th of July and can't wait for next years. We want to go to Portland and watch them over the river.

The girls dressed for church on the 3rd

Happy 4th of July

Watching fireworks.
Bryant, Scott, and Trisha

Our little Family.

All the fireworks
I guess you had to be there. :)

Strawberry Picking

Some ladies in our ward were telling me about fun things to do here in Oregon. Everyone tries to tell you it's the best place to live. I'm not convinced yet, but I do like to hear about things we've never done and try them. They were telling me about berry picking. It was strawberry season and only had like 2 weeks left. I love strawberries and I thought this was very cool. So we went berry picking for Family Night in the beginning of July. I am so lame and didn't even know what to expect. I had imagined we walked right by these big bushes and pulled the strawberries off. Brooklyn had just gotten a new dress and wanted to wear it. I thought it was defiantly a great idea for her first time wearing it to be picking strawberries and even better for me to wear white capris. When we got to the farm there were rows and rows of little bushes that came up to my calf, and people wearing knee pads and old worn out clothes! We were a little over dressed.

They explained to us how it works, gave us a couple buckets and sent us out to the field. Brooklyn absolutely loved picking them. It was so much fun watching her. We let her have her own bucket and she got to pick strawberries all by herself. We came home with some pretty gross ones, but that's ok. We had been picking for awhile when I noticed Brooklyn had to have sat on a couple strawberries. And then she turned toward me and the front of her was covered in strawberry juice as well. Oh man I am such an idiot. She was such a mess, and my legs were cramping from squatting and trying not to get my pants dirty. But the whole experience was great. We came home with about 5 lbs of strawberries. We made strawberry smoothies that night, and the next night we had homemade angel food cake with strawberries. Yummy! We are looking forward to next year. We will make sure we are better prepared! Oh and if you were wondering, Brooklyn's dress was not ruined! Everything washed out, YAY.

Like a week after going strawberry picking Brooklyn asked, "Can we go pick strawberries again and then after go pick donuts?" :)

Ready to go.

Daddy showing Brooklyn how to pick the strawberries.

She was so proud of herself.

I love these girls!

Avery enjoyed just being outside.

Showing Daddy what we're taking home!

Brooklyn's New Love...

BOWLING!

3 months ago I took Brooklyn bowling for the first time. My friend gave us a summer pass where kids can bowl one game free everyday until the end of Oct. Pretty cool. Brooklyn loved it. We've only gone a couple times. I totally should have taken advantage of the free bowling, we've still got time.

This week for Family Night our lesson was I will obey. We are using the Nursery Manual as our family night lessons, and it's great. So we talked about obeying Heavenly Father and us. We decided to take her bowling and let her practice listening to us. She did great. She didn't wander off and would wait patiently for her turn. Bryant's friend from school lives out here too so we asked Scott and Trisha to come with us. It was really fun. I bowled 142 my first game, and i'm really proud of that! We bowled 3 games, and Brooklyn 2. The last game they turned the lights off and had the disco ball going with loud music. Brooklyn got so excited and danced all over. I was so mad I didn't have our camera to record it. We were all laughing pretty hard. Everyone there were able to learn a few new moves :)

These pictures are from her first time bowling:

She wanted to carry the ball all by herself.

Caleb is so good with my girls. Brooklyn loves him. He was so cute and asked to hold Avery.

Avery didn't want to be passed around anymore :(
Sorry Reya.

So happy. What a big girl.

Cute Reya. She is only a day younger then Brooklyn.

I put this one so you can see my gorgeous friend Kendra in the background!
She's all I got out here in Oregon :(

My little bowler.

This is why I chose bowling as our obedience test. Last time we went bowling she would run off and wasn't interest in bowling and would just go get lost in the arcade.