Sea Lions

Nathan, Ethan, the girls and I went on a whale watching tour. I bet we had 12-15 whale sightings while we were on the water which is apparently a lot of sightings for a 1.5 hour tour, so we picked a great time and place to go on the tour. It was tons of fun, but I am glad that we didn't eat anything before we got on the boat. Poor Mistie would have been in bad shape if we had eaten first. Sea Lions were also around in the water where we were. Here is a picture of them, but I didn't get any outstanding pictures of the whales because the water was choppy. I didn't want to take a chance of my lovely camera having a chance to swim with the whales in the pacific.

flowers

I can't believe that we actually survived the plane trips. Let me tell you that it was not any fun at all being on a plane with a toddler for 4 hours. Makayla was not a happy camper. This week I will be posting some random pics from the trip. Enjoy!

blackberries

Makaylas love blackberries. They grow wild in Oregon. We are hanging out at Nathan's mom's house today. I took this picture this morning of Makayla and her Grandpa Bob picking blackberries in their back yard. This is what Oregon looks like. It is very green. Sweet Home, OR where we are visitng Nathan's mom is in the Willamette Valley. I didn't realize that meant that there were going to be mountains right around the town. I just thought that there were mountains nearby. The area is very interesting to me because a town this size in Arkansas would have a wal-mart supercenter, but instead the people living here shop at locally owned shops like you see on Gilmore Girls or Everwood. It makes me kind of sad that we have a Wal-Mart on every corner in Arkansas thus making the small local businesses obselete. Anyway we are enjoying our trip and had a relatively good trip here on the planes. It could have been much worse. Makayla did very well considering that we had to hold her on our laps for 5 hours total.

We are going to the zoo in Portland on Saturday and to Newport Beach on Sunday and Monday. I will post pics of that later. I also have to add that I am super excited about our whale watching tour that Nathan and I are taking our nieces on first thing Monday morning.

Going to Grandma's!

We are leaving for Oregon in the morning and will be gone for a week. It will be Makayla's first trip on a plane. I am leaving you with a picture of me as a motivation for me to update the blog while I am gone or very soon after we get back. We have lots of exciting things planned, so I know that I will have a lot to tell you about next week.

Nice Quote

I found this quote, and I just had to find a way to utilize it. This is what I came up with.

4-wheeler

Last weekend we visited my parents and brother since it was a long weekend. Makayla rode the 4-wheeler with my dad for about 10 feet.

It started like this.

It ended like this.

Just a pic

I know that is what most of you check this blog for in the first place, so here is a picture of Makayla and me from last weekend.