Lave cast

July 17, 2015

For our last day in Sunriver, we thought we would check out the Lava Cast Forest!  Sydney and I had a cute pose in front of the sign!

Today's hike was only about a mile, so, I got to hike it!  I was actually willing to hold a hand right now, most of the time, I wanted to run by myself and make everybody nervous!

This tree was a perfect place to stop and getting a picture of all of us kids!

Today, Daddy got the day off!  We thought we would get another family picture, but this time will all of us in it!

This is a lava cast.  It is a cast of a tree that was there when the lava came through.  The tree died off put the cast of the tree is still there!

Daddy and I got down into one.  They were fun wholes to climb in!

This one was big enough that it could fit all of us kids in it!

Everybody else got out, but I stayed around to get a picture of just me!

We wanted to get a family picture of us in a lava cast!

This one is just my size!

I found the perfect Makayla one!

I don't think we could squeeze another person in this one!

Sydney and I like this twisted fallen tree and thought it would be the perfect place to sit and rest for a moment!

We got Aunt Helen and Makayla to join us on the tree!

Lucky thing there were a lot of benches along the way to rest on, since, I walked the whole way.  Uncle Scott, Sydney, and I stopped to enjoy the view!

The older kids had fun climbing in the cast tunnels.  I wanted to climb in to, so, Jonah helped me out.  It is fun to see the oldest grandchild with the youngest one!

A picture of us girls with Grammy and Granpy!

Aunt Helen had mom and Dad get in the picture, so, we could get our whole family with Grammy and Granpy!

All of us girls fit into this lava cast just perfectly.  Aren't we cute together!

A sweet picture of me on the bench!

Mom just loves this picture that Aunt Susan got of the two of us!  

I got to stand on a tree stump and be really tall!  Thanks Aunt Helen for keeping me safe.

I love to wear my sunglasses upside down.  These ones I usually wear the correct way, but today, I thought it would be funny to put them upside down!

Uncle Jeff and I tried to give Wyatt a hug, but he wasn't so into it!

I thought I would be silly and wear my sunglasses upside down just like me sister!

That is better!  We finished our hike and are ready to head back to the place in Sunriver for our next adventure of the day!

We headed to the pool.  I got to ride my bike all the way down to the pool.  This time Dad was able to join us!  First thing we did was headed to go down the water slide.  I had not been down the tube slide yet, so, we got us a double tube and headed up to go down!

Here is a video of Dad and I coming down the water slide.  

Grammy took me into the pool to play around while McKenzie and Dad went down the slide and mom took some pictures!

I loved to jump around in the pool.  My favorite area was the walk in pool, where, I could reach and jumps to my hearts delight!

After, I went down the tube slide with Daddy, I wanted to go down the tunnel slide again!

The slides were so much fun to go down.  I wasn't scared one bit about going down and so excited about being able to go!

We had fun swimming with mom!

A family photo of us in the pool!

Aunt Sarah and I had a great time swimming around in the pool together!  

I got to show off how well I can float and even swim on my own!

There was a log and a shark that people could play on.  Aunt Sarah took me over to sit and play on the log.  

After we finished at the pool, we headed over to the sledding hill to watch a little sledding. 

I was fun to hang out with Grammy and watch.  

Daddy and McKenzie, as well as the rest of the group, are walking up the hill to the top.  

Mom and I raced dad down the hill!

We beat dad down the hill!  It was sure fun to race him!

I am all ready to go again!  I loved sledding!

Here I am sledding down the hill.  

I rode with Grammy in Aunt Sarah's car down to the pool.  I helped her carry her bag to the car.  

We rode down to the village to get some ice cream at Goody's!

Here we are all lined up on the bench eating our ice cream!

I enjoyed my strawberry ice cream.  

I had Aunt Sarah help me with my strawberry ice cream.  

When I was done with my ice cream, I thought I would share Aunt Helen's with her!  

I am all ready to get back on my bike and bike from the village to the house.  We sure had a fun time in Sunriver with everybody!

Paulina natural water slide!

July 16, 2015

Aunt Sarah heard of a place that had a natural water slide that you can go down.  We packed into the cars and headed to the Paulina natural water slide.  We are all ready to hike to the slide.  We thought it was only going to be 1/2 a mile, but when we got there somebody told us is was a 1 1/2.  We thought we would still take it on!

We made it to the slide and I am deciding if I want to do it.  I have become such a brave girl and up for trying all types of new adventures!  

I really wanted to go down.  Mom asked me over and over again and I kept saying yes.  Mom wasn't so keen on getting into the cold water and going down, but she didn't want to send me down by myself.  Lucky for me my (favorite) Aunt Sarah took me down!  

Grammy was up above taking pictures of us going down the slide.  Here are the pictures of me and Aunt Sarah going down the slide!

Half way down!

We made it to the pool at the bottom.  I had a lot of fun, but told mom I didn't want to go down again, because, it was too cold!  Thanks again Aunt Sarah you are the greatest!

We headed back up to the trail and caught up with Grammy, Aunt Helen, and Makayla!  We had a fun 3 mile hike and slide in the river!  

After we woke up from our naps, we took our bikes out to ride around!  

I had a lot of fun on my balance bike!

Mom got a lot of cute pictures of me and had a hard time deciding which one to put in, so, she added them all!  

I love my new bike!  I can ride and ride and ride it and it seems like never I never get tired!

Look at how happy I am to be out riding my bike!

This evening, we had a little birthday party for Micah, since, his birthday is in a couple of days!  We had fun watching him open his presents!

We all gathered around to play one of the games that he got!

He had a dinosaur party in sunriver.  We all got a dinosaur mask to wear!  Aren't we the cutest dinosaurs you have ever seen!

That is one ferocious dinosaur.  I am scared!

Here I am with the birthday boy!

We sang happy birthday to Micah!

Tyler and I sure enjoyed our cake together!

Yummy cake!  I got it from head to toe!  

Pour Uncle Jeff tried to get Makayla to give him a hug, but she wasn't so sure about it.  Good thing I was more than happy to give him a hug to make him feel better about Makayla!  

I even had him ready me a bed time story!  Jonah came over to hear the story with us!

Obsidian flow

July 15, 2015

Today's adventure took us to the Obsidian flow.  I had fun walking up all the step to get to the obsidian flow.  It was nice to have help from Grammy and Granpy!

I went ahead with my big cousins while mom waited for Makayla.  Aunt Sarah and I peeked down at her as she climb up the stairs!

We thought we would get a picture of us, well most of us Aunt Helen took the picture and Dad was at work.  

Look at how strong I am by lifting this huge volcanic rock!

I found an obsidian chair to sit in.  There was so much smooth shinny black rocks everywhere.  

Makayla wanted to sit down on my obsidian chair, but she was strapped to mom's back, so, mom got down with her and joined our picture!

We thought we would try for another group photo!

We wanted to get Aunt Helen with all the kids, since, she was taking the group photo.  The only problem was Makayla was in the backpack, so, mom had to join the photo with us!  

We made it to the top!  Here are all the gran kids in order of their age.  Jonah 9, Ezekiel 7, Sydney 7, Tyler 5, McKenzie 5, Micah 4, Wyatt 4, and Makayla 2.

One with us gran kids with Grammy and Granpy shielding our eyes from the sun!

I wanted my picture taken with the mountain in the background.  

Aunt Helen and I siting on the obsidian!

Grammy came along and we had her join in the picture!

Here I am with Grammy and Granpy.  We had a lot of fun walking through the obsidian flow.  I was quite fascinated by how the rocks became that way and asked a lot of questions.  Mom told me to ask Uncle Jeff.  He explained it to me and after his explanation Makayla piped up "what is a molecule".  

After we got back, we headed to the pool to do a little swimming!

We had fun swimming with Aunt Helen again!

It was fun to show her how I can swim some on my own.  I have come along way in the last two years since we were here.  At that time, I wouldn't even put my head in the water!

It was kind of cold this week while we were there, so, we got out to warm up a bit in the sun!

We had a blast laying out our towels to lay on.  I think we moved them more than we laid on them!

I am ready to soak in some sun and warm up!

We had a fun time at the pool today!

When we finished with the pool, we headed to the sledding hill to do a little summer sledding!  I was excited to get to sled this year, since, two years ago I was not old enough to go.  I had a blast sledding down in a train with Granpy and mom!  It was so much fun that I climbed right back up the hill and went down by myself the next time.  

I had fun sitting up on the hill with Aunt Helen and Aunt Sarah watching all the sledders come down!