4th of July

I spent the holiday weekend at my parent's cabin at Lake Nahwatzel, and it was a blast! Kyle and Bryan had a reenactment unfortunately, so they wasn't able to come, but his parents and brother Tanner came and picked me up in Portland, and we drove up to spend the weekend with my parents. The weather was great, and we spent the weekend intertubing, kayaking, canoeing, floating in the lake, hanging out around the fire... and of course enjoying all the fireworks! They were amazing, they lasted about an hour and a half and were huge, show-quality fireworks. The girls all snuggled with blankets in the three person intertube on the dock while the boys watched from chairs amd the boat, and we got to enjoy... for free! :) One of the neighbors also had a live band, so it was a really fun evening.

Floating around in the kayak, enjoying the sun.

Intertubing



Hehe Tanner's adorable :)

The girls

Dad practicing the pipes

Rick and Sue in the floating lawn chairs!

I guess every year on the 4th of July the boats all line up and do like a parade around the docks, and if you're on the dock you're fair game for water balloons and squirt guns... of course the boys were up to the challenge! They filled up a bunch of water balloons and were throwing them at the boats as they passed by, and then they got into our boat and followed them with more!

Tanner's ready for the fight!

I tried to take pictures of the fireworks with my camera, but wasn't very successful.. I thought this one turned out kind of cool though!

Snuggled up, watching the fireworks.

I can't wait to go back in a couple weeks, and this time Kyle gets to come too! :) Hopefully Chelsea will be able to come, she was sick last weekend so I didn't get to see her... :(

Kyle had his interview for grad school this morning and said that it went really well, so we're keeping our fingers crossed that we might hear from Concordia in the next week!

OK, so open house is officially this Sunday, July 12th at 12:00! We're going to have a BBQ, and you don't need to bring anything, we just ask that you BYOB. Our address is: 17968 SW Brisk Ave, Beaverton, OR 97007. Unfortunately, our house is too new to be on mapquest or google maps, but just look for the intersection of 179th and Farmington in Beaverton. You're going to take a left on 179th, and then a right on Brisk Ave. We're going to have people park on the road wherever they can; parking might be kind of tight, so call me or Kyle if you have absolutely any problems. My cell phone number is 503-747-9740, and Kyle's is 541-619-8844. We're the house around the corner next to the playground. We hope all of you can make it, and can't wait to see you there! :)