Birdies & Eagles

I had an amazing round...well, maybe not an good round, but I had an amazing two holes of golf this weekend!

I got a BIRDIE on a par three (hole 8) and an EAGLE on a par three (hole 10)...yep, an EAGLE on a par 3 is a HOLE-IN-ONE!!!!!

Here was the front nine scorecard...we were both playing so bad we decided to not keep score. 

Then, on the back nine, Shane had a great shot on hole 10:

After I hit, we drove up to the green and couldn't find my ball.  I was sure I had come in "hot" and rolled it off the back of the green.  Shane looked, I looked, and then he looked in the cup to find this:

Hall - le - lu -jah !!!!!  Can you believe it?

Shane was so happy for me and I was grinning ear to ear!  The back nine card looked like this (we were by then soooooooo excited and distracted we decided not to keep score :)

 

It was an awesome experience!

River Ride

Shane worked with Ryan on Ryan's boathouse all last Friday laying tile on the patio.  He decided to take us to Anthony's on the river for a great boat ride and dinner.  It was a ton of fun and super relaxing to be out of the water. 

I even managed to snap some pictures of water foul.  I'm honestly not sure what these are...I thought geese had black beaks and feet?  They seem a little big for ducks? I don't know, but true to my bird infatuation, I had to snap a few pictures.  Ryan even did a round-a-bout them just for me so I could get a shot in better lighting...so kind of him.

Anthony's Restaurant

View from the patio

Concert in the Park

We took the girls last Thursday night to a concert in the park.  The band was called Third Date.  Kennedy is a very inquisitive young lady and the band's name prompted quite a few questions about why a band would name themselves that.  Neither Shane or I knew for some reason.

Turns out "concert in the park" had tons of food booths, a jumpie house, and vendor booths with free stickers and stuff.  The girls had fun fun fun.

One of the vendors was giving away balloon microphones - it was almost as tall as Isabella.  Kennedy used a lot of hot air blowing them both up :)

Isabella posed on purpose for this picture.  She has become a little diva in front of the camera like her big sis.

I asked the girls to stand with their mikes and Kennedy oh so compliantly agreed.  Isabella on the other hand had something else in mind with her mike......

Which prompted this.........

The girls also decided to get their face painted.  For 50 cents a piece it was hard not to, right?  Until we got there and the guy doing the face painting admitted he wasn't an artist and was filling in for his girlfriend who went to get dinner at the taco booth.  Isabella was a little skeptical about it after that:

But she was happy with her butterfly result.  I don't think he did too bad considering he was a temp.

Kennedy wanted a more intricate design: a big smiley face with big pink lips in a pucker position.
We had to wait for the real deal to get back from the taco wagon to paint her design.

Although, I'm not sure her smiley face was any more professional than the butterfly.

Kennedy posed us in a variety of family pictures:

Here's my favorite:

Dance Recital Weekends

Isabella's ballet recital was in mid-May.  Here are some pictures from that weekend.

 In June, both girls had their dance recital.  Isabella did her tap routine and Kennedy did both hip-hop and jazz routines.  They had so many supporters, it was a fun weekend!  Their Nanna and Meme watched their routines on Friday night.  Saturday night was a repeat performance and their Gramma and Grampa Wagner, Great Gramma and Grampa Rambo, Great Aunt Rhonda, Aunt Nicole, Aunt Brittany, and Uncle Ryan all drove here to watch.  Their Aunt Heidi, Uncle Tyler, Meme, Papa, cousins Mason & Brady, and their Great Gramma Bruce all came for a BBQ lunch.  Shane made amazing brisket and then we went to the dance recital. 

Kennedy's hip hop routine

Kennedy's jazz routine

Isabella's tap routine

 Thanks to everyone who drove so far to watch them.  They really appreciated having everyone come watch them.  Kennedy had looked forward to it for months.  Their Meme and Aunt Heidi did alot of shuttling them around to their practices which is also WAY appreciated.  It was a fun weekend!

Just a few of the supporters - we took up almost a whole row :)

Klamath Falls Trip

Fourth of July weekend found us making a road trip to Klamath Falls for my friend Angalee's wedding reception.  We had a great time with the girls and made a lot of fun family pitstops along the way.  It felt familiar and comfortable to be back.  I actually found I missed Klamath...just a little bit...let's not get carried away :) 

We were both excited to get back to Klamath but DREADED (and I do mean DREADED) the drive down 97.  To solve the monotony of 97, we decided to go 395 south through Pendleton and John Day to mix up the drive a little bit.  What a gorgeous detour.  The scenery was amazing.

  We stayed with Tara and Jesse who we hadn't seen since in almost a year at our wedding.  Connor was really excited to have so many girls at his house.  Since we've seen them, they've added a new addition, Peyton Blake, to their family who was born last December.  Connor and Isabella are about 6 months apart and they really hit it off. 

 It was so great to see Tara and Jesse. I lived (not really but pretty darn close) at their house for about a year.  Tara is a dear, dear friend that I'm so lucky to have.  They watched the girls while we went to the wedding reception for a couple of hours.  The girls had fun and didn't seem to miss us much :) We had a good time at the wedding reception, it was so great to see my other Klammie friends like LeAnn and Bill, see Angalee again in her beautiful wedding dress and meet her new hubby, Lewis. 

Kennedy claimed my favorite chair while we were there, a massage chair.  This chair is da bomb! I had to be peeled out of it most of the nights I stayed at Tara's when I lived down there.  Nice to see Kennedy appreciate it as much as I did.  

Klamath Lake

We had to make a drive by our alma mater and see how my old office building had changed.

After we left there to head to Bend, we detoured through Crater Lake.  Wow, I have been there about 3 times over the course of the 11 years I lived in Klamath and it never fails to impress.  The blue water there is indescribable...I would say blue is my favorite color but Crater blue is a blue unto its own.  It should have its own name like Carolina blue does. 

 There was still tons of snow, even for July.  They had a record snow year, so much so that one of the entrances into Crater Lake was still closed.  Kennedy had to climb the snow and say she'd stood on the lodge's roof. 

Isabella wasn't into roof climbing but she did enjoy making snow balls and throwing them at us. 

  We made a side stop and checked out Annie Falls which you had to peak over the scary ledge to see.  The girls weren't really into it so we hugged the safety of this tree and took pictures overlooking the canyon.

After Crater Lake we worked our way up 97 and stopped at the Wagon Wheel Cafe in Chemult.  Downstairs they had a replica log cabin room that Kennedy found simply creepy.

We checked into the hotel and I was reminded of how much fun that can be for kids.  Isabella ran into the room screaming, "I can't believe this!"  Apparently, it doesn't take much to make her deliriously happy.  We went swimming most of the evening and even swam for an hour the next morning after breakfast. 

The view from our room reminded me of one of the reason's I miss central & southern Oregon - the mountain ranges are hard to beat. 

Good night, moon.

 The next morning we got walked the trail from our hotel to the Old Mill District.

Yes, that is Kennedy with her very cute first Vera Bradley!  Tara and I had to make a reminiscent visit to Merrill and County Cork - a place we used to window shop every Saturday morning.  Tara teased her that she may have to borrow it every now and then, it's adorable.  Those purses just make me smile - so cheery.

 We left Bend to start the drive home but drove first to hike Tumalo Falls.  It was a 1/2 mile hike up and back and was a perfect morning hike.

Handsome Husband

After the falls, we ventured onward up 97.  Isabella had an upset tummy on the drive home so we had to pull off in Shaniko...a place we've driven by too many times to count but hadn't stopped at.  The bathroom cleanliness was to be expected for a ghost town but we did find a few interesting things to look at while we were there.

What a great family trip doing simple things.  It was good for the 4 of us to spend some time together exploring new things.  Shane and I felt really thankful our family could spend a long weekend together.