Quick trip to the Zoo

And Spring Break is already upon us.  I'm always amazed how fast the school year flies by.
Conor had an appointment up at OHSU so we decided to make a day of it in Portland and visit the Zoe one last time before our membership expires.  We rode the train first thing.   Ate our lunch on the quick ride around and then I asked each of the kids to pick an animal they wanted to see.  So we walked around to the specific areas.  The Zoo is under a lot of construction right now and so not very many of the areas are even open.  However the kids had fun even in the short time there and as we were leaving we got them hot chocolate!

Adrien's Graduation

My friends Grandson graduated this weekend.  We are all so proud of his accomplishments.  He's been through more than any kid should have gone through at his age and graduating from High school was a huge accomplishment.  His Mother, Father, and grandparents all came from afar to be there for the special day!

Conor's camp and Seaside

We picked up Conor on friday from camp.  This is his third year at this camp.  Its put on by Chris Dudley who was a player on Trail Blazer team, he also has type 1 diabetes. So it's also a basketball camp on top of a diabetic camp.  Conor was finally old enough to play on the bottom courts.  So he played against kids up to 17 years old.  We watched him in the championship game and he did really good, he was much more aggressive than he's been and his team won.  We ate lunch and watched the awards and then if was off to Seaside.  We've stayed in Seaside each year because it's only an hour away from his camp.  We went shopping and then checked into the hotel.  Steve took the kids swimming while I got ready for the evening.  The hotel has a wine/beer and snack between five and six so we stopped in before we headed out to meet Steve's friend for dinner.  We ate at Seaside Brewing company and had a great visit with Steve's friend BJ and his family.  We walked on down the street for icecream afterwards.  We slept in a little the next morning, ate a good breakfast that the hotel served.  The kids wanted to ride the six seater bike so we rode around Seaside for an hour.  Steve ran into a co-worker on our way back.  We visited again with Steve's friends family and then headed down the coastline.  We stopped in at Tilamook Cheese factory for some lunch and ice-cream, then off to our house.

 This is Conor's team playing in the championship game

 Chase was so happy to see his brother

 Zoe told Conor that she missed him so much

 Conor getting his award

 Ready to walk to dinner

 Ice-cream after dinner

 The mermaid that a guy made on the beach

 Our morning ride