Cute Pictures

For Graham's 30th birthday the kids and I had our pictures taken in Jacksonville as a surprise. We gave them to daddy for his birthday. They turned out really cute so I wanted to post a few to share.

Wildlife Safari & Bandon

For our 5 year anniversary we decided to go on a family vacation. Here we are at the wildlife safari park. It is a drive through experience where you can go at your leisure and watch the animals roaming around. We had ostriches come up to our windows and peck at them. Liam loved it!

Here is Liam peeking his head out of our sunroof. I finally found a good reason to have one!

Here are 2 bears sleeping 5 feet away from us.

Liam has been wanting to see an elephant for a year now. So this was one of the highlights for him. I highly recommend this wildlife park to anyone.

Here we are in Bandon, OR on the pier. We were there during their wind festival. Liam is flying a kite he made.

Bandon has a great little downtown with lots of stores. We stopped in the candy store and let Liam pick out his own bag of treats.

Here we are at the Tide pools.

Here is Brielle eating a sandwhich.

The beach was our favorite part of the trip. We had a private beach access at the hotel we stayed at.

The beach was beautiful. There are a lot of rolling sand dunes. Liam found a little fort someone made out of driftwood. We played at the beach a lot on our trip.  

They both loved rolling around in the sand.

Brielle didn't eat as much sand as I thought she would. She put her face in the sand a few times, but she mostly just picked it up and dropped it.

I love this picture of our little Superman!

Brielle loved picking up sticks and poking them in the sand.

Here are the boys running away from a wave.

Brielle all bundled up playing at the beach.

Superman

This is a picture of Liam in Daddy's old superman costume. Graham used to wear it everyday when he was little. There are holes in the knees. Liam loved trying it on!

Liam has been obsessed with superman. He wears his little costume or superman shirt all the time. He wants to be superman for Halloween. Daddy said he would dress up with him too, so we will have to wait and see. It should be super cute!

Golfing & the Fair

We decided to take Liam to the driving range and let him hit a few balls. He was surprisingly good at it. He could hit it a few yards. He really enjoyed it. We plan on taking him again this summer.

Now that Liam is tall enough we decided to take Liam to the fair. Here he is smiling with daddy.

We bought some tickets so he could try the rides. We didn't know if he would go on by himself. The first ride he wanted to try was the Flying Dragon.

He climbed right on all by himself and rode it. He Loved it! He said it was like a big swing.

Then he rode the cars.

I took him on the dragon roller coaster. We were on there for 5 minutes! He really enjoyed it though.

Liam loved the fair. We had a great time with him. It was like going to a little Disneyland for him.

Even though we spent $40 it was worth it, because of the joy it brought him. We plan on going to the fair again next year.

Lots of Family Fun

We started off the week camping in cabins with my family at Lake of the Woods. Liam loved roasting these huge marshmallows. We spent 2 nights up there with all 4 of my siblings.

Here is a picture of some of my family out on the dock. That is Mount McLoughlin in the background. That is the same mountain you can see from our front porch.

Daddy and Liam rowing around in a boat.

After camping we hiked Table Rock. Brielle is happily riding along.

She only lasted about 10 minutes.

Here we are at the top! It was a fun, tiring walk. 

We left Liam with my parents, so here is a picture of the 3 of us at the top. 

That night we threw my parents a surprise 30th anniversary party. It was a Hawaiian theme. Here is Brielle in a cute hula skirt.

The both did the hula for my parents. 

Yeah 30 years! They were really surprised and excited about the party!

We all did 2 hula dances for my parents.

Here is a picture of all of the family members that came up for the party.

On 4th of July we went to the Central Point parade. They both enjoyed it.

That night we had people over for dinner and did some fireworks in the yard. Then we watched the fairground fireworks from the field in front of our yard. Our neighbor then did an amazing firework show in the field. They were going off right above our heads. My entire family loved it.

The next morning we went on the Hellgate Jet boats. Graham got soaked.

They let Liam pretend to drive the boat. Both Liam and Brielle fell asleep on the boat.

Here is another cute picture of Brielle and Daddy working on their computers.