this post is annoying. . .

But I just had to get it out. When we moved here in September, Brian had about three weeks before he started school. That meant lots and lots of time for us to fall in love with our new state as a family. McKay would call them journeys. We went on lots of journeys.

Multnomah Falls, etc. . .

So beautiful. Huge slugs were definitely a highlight for the kids.

The Big Journey

One day we were totally bored and decided to drive down the road near our house that leads to farm country and see what we could find. This was when McKay used the term journey. This has been one of my favorite days here so far. It was so fun just driving around waiting for the next cool thing. And there were some cool things!

Alpaca Farm

The kids loved this, especially McKay.

Apple Orchard and hidden park in the woods.

We drove by the cutest little apple farm and knew we had to stop. Plus there were signs telling us to stop. They had a big bouncy, blow-up apple that the kids could jump in. They had an empty pig pen, but McKay didn't even care that it was empty- he still was fascinated. We also enjoyed some delicious honey crisp apples and a few flavored honey sticks.

Then, as we were winding through the small streets on one of the many forest-covered hills, we came upon this fun little park. It had a great play ground, which the kids loved, and there were trails that led to a garden area where we saw bunnies, squirrels and the kids enjoyed wild blackberries.

Temple

In September we were able to take a tour of the temple grounds.

Beaverton Parade

We woke up to a rainy Saturday in September and were really bummed. We had planned on going to the Beaverton parade that morning and hadn't anticipated rain. We decided to brave the weather- bundled up in all our rain gear- and headed downtown. Let me tell you something- Oregon is used to doing anything in the rain! We felt like this broke us in!

That's all. Long. Boring. As sick of writing it as you are of reading it! ;)