Weekend Trip

Norah & Nolan with Great Grandma

Norah & Nolan taking a walk

Norah "teaching" Nolan about all the plants

Norah with Grandma and Grandpa's kitty

Playing by the river in her jammies

Just hanging out

"say cheese"

We had lots of fun this weekend at Casey's parents house. We drove down on Friday when Casey got home from work, had a quick dinner and some visiting and headed to bed. Saturday Casey, his dad and his cousin drove to Mt. St Helens and scouted out a possible hike to Castle lake on Sunday. While they were gone his mom and I took the kids and another one of Casey's cousins to the Portland Zoo. I have a few pictures from the zoo but my batery ran out not long after we got there :-( We had so much fun there. It was pretty crowded but the kids enjoyed it! We saw lots of fun animals, had good food and walked and walked. I think between the 2 kids I spent at least an hour carrying them. We decided to skip the hike on Sunday because it would have taken up the majority of the day, but Casey and I decided to take his Dad's canoe out instead. His parents live on the Lewis River, and his dad said we should have no problem paddling back up stream so that was our plan. We headed down river and were having a great time, we decided to start heading back and weren't having any problems going upstream.....at first. Once we were in sight of the house the current started to pick up and the wind pushed us sideways and we tipped over! Yikes, that water is cold. We got the canoe back up and walked it past their house then were able to get almost to shore just as we were almost there we tipped again :-( It was still fun even though we were soaking wet and cold. We decided next time we would take it to a lake :-)