My Enchanted Musings

what a weekend. It started by getting up early on Saturday morning to go downtown to watch the Rose Festival Parade. This was our 5th year of going. I have to admit that I didn't want to go. I just didn't think we needed to go EVERY year. But Emma apparently feels that it is one tradition that has to be kept up. She invited a friend to go with her this time. Makenzie didn't want to go. I was a bit torn about that. A part of me wanted to make her go since it was a "family outing" but the other part of me didn't want to listen and watch her sulking all morning and afternoon. The impatient part of me won out. We let her stay home and she was quite content doing so. So we took Emma, Allie and Heidi and got there bright and early to stake out our seats. We took breakfast with us so once we got there we ate our breakfast and then the girls immediately went to work drawing with chalk and blowing giant bubbles on the streets of Portland.

After the parade we rushed home to get packed for our evening in Eugene. We stopped in Albany on our way and went to a graduation open house for our good friends' oldest daughter who had just graduated from high school. Congratulations Micah! We are so proud of you. The picture above is an older picture of her. We had such a great time reconnecting with dear friends in our old ward. I pretty much had tears in my eyes when we left. It was amazing to see that our ward family was still that to us: family.


We got to Mt. Tom late Saturday night and after talking for a little while with Chris' parents we went to bed. We woke up to a yummy breakfast of fresh fruit, muffins, blueberry bread, banana bread, cereal, juice and milk. Then Emma and Heidi immediately went to work begging grandpa Scott to take them for a ride on the ATC's. They had a blast doing that and Grandpa even taught Emma how to drive it. We went to church with his parents and had nice visits with all the people in that ward and the lessons were so good and uplifting.

After church Grandpa Scott built a huge bonfire in the meadow and the girls roasted marshmallows. The fire was so hot though that they had to lay down on the grass behind a clump of taller grass and push their 15 foot sticks over to the fire. I wish I had gotten a picture of them. It was so funny. The weather was sunny and warm and it felt so good after what has felt like months of cold and rain.

Chris and I loaded up the rest of our stuff from the Barnasium. What is a barnasium you ask? Well it is a word that Chris' family made up. It looks like a barn but was used as a gym while the kids were all growing up. Now, it is mostly used for storage. My favorite thing that I brought home with me was a tall cupboard that is over a 100 years old. It has all of the original knobs and brackets on it. It is gorgeous and i can't wait to put it in my house somewhere.

The entire weekend was so much fun and I should have taken pictures. I took my camera everywhere but just wasn't in the mood to snap away. Oh well.