Family Reunion in Oregon

We just got back from our family reunion. We left after school last Friday and flew into Boise, ID. We stayed at a really nice hotel there and then drove 3 hours to eastern Oregon Saturday morning. This was Brandon's dad's family. We were at the reunion on Saturday and Sunday. There was so much to do and the kids had a blast. I took almost 200 pictures, so you can check them out and see all the fun stuff we did. We camped out on Saturday night, which was an adventure with 3 little kids. Kate and Annie did really good and slept all night, but Matt had a little accident and woke up cold. Once he was redressed and covered up he fell asleep and slept till 10am. Brandon and I had more trouble sleeping since right after we took care of Matt the sun came up. It gets dark after 9:30pm and light at 4:30am. Monday and Tuesday we stayed in a hotel (thank goodness) and hung out with Brandon's parents and visited more with his extended family. Kate made good friends with Libby, one of Brandon's cousins daughter and had a blast running around with her. A couple of funny things happened that I want to remember, but I'm afraid they won't be very funny to anyone who wasn't there. Frank (Brandon's dad) was talking to Kate and Libby and said "Libby I'm your grandma's big brother", Libby then said "You look younger than my grandma", so Frank took out a dollar and gave it to her. When Frank's sister Tammy saw the dollar she asked about it and Libby said "I told him he looked younger than you". Tammy said "WHAT?!!" and Libby said (trying to defend herself) "He didn't make me say it, it's true". Another day we drove up to the lake in the mountain. We were on a skinny dirt road and a park ranger truck was coming toward us. We pulled over to let him pass and as he passed (very slowly) he had his window down and he nodded at us. Linda (Brandon's mom) said to Frank, "he wants to talk to you". So Frank rolled down his window and just stared at him. Well he just stared back for like 3 seconds, until they both said "what?" Then Frank said "I thought you wanted to talk to me" and the ranger said "I thought you wanted to talk to me", then they rolled up their windows and drove away. It was an awkward moment and we laughed for a long time about it. Too bad Linda didn't do it on purpose to embarrass Frank.

Vacation

Our very good and generous friends Andrea and Scott invited us to stay with them at their place in Newport Beach for a week. My camera ran out of batteries the first day there, so I don't have many pictures to document the great and fun week we had. The weather was prefect for a beach vacation and was even warm enough to swim in the pool. Scott and Andrea have 3 kids exactly Kate and Matt's age and they had a blast together, with only a few minor incidents (sand to the eyes and fingers in the door, we believe one was retaliation for the other :) ). We went to Legoland one day and Disneyland another. They were both a little crowded from spring break, but the kids enjoyed it anyway. We mostly enjoyed hanging out and relaxing at the beach or pool with our friends. Andrea, I miss you already, let's plan to get together this summer.