Saturday, May 29, 2010

Jackson Bottom Wetlands





This afternoon we finally got some sunshine, so we decided we would head over to Jackson Bottom Wetlands to see what we could see. We weren't able to go everywhere, unless we had hip- waders. We have had tooooo much rain, usually we love the rain but we feel like we are going to start growing moss and webbed feet :). Makenna is working on a speech/report about a wetland animal and we thought we might see some to get her excited about working on her report. We didn't see too much this trip, we saw alot of tree swallows, ducks, herons, and other pretty birds that wouldn't hold still to get their pictures taken, I think one of us (the youngest) was too noisy, imagine that. We did see an eagle pretty close but by the time I got the camera ready it was too far to get a good picture. After we were done exploring we got back in the van and I asked Makenna if she had thought of the animal she was going to choose and she said the skunk, so we were all pretty happy and relieved that we didn't come in contact with any skunks.

Fireworks

I had to take a picture of Braxton under the low clearance sign in the parking garage, I thought it was pretty silly with his head touching the top. We figured only a smart car or a mini would be able to get in that spot.

Rain or Shine we can't break tradition :) We had a front row view of the barge on the river where they set off the fireworks, I guess people decided to stay home and out of the rain. When we left home it was raining pretty hard and we were wondering what we were thinking, but when we got into Portland it was only a light rain and no people.

Friday, May 28, 2010

Congrats Braxton




This past Monday evening Braxton received a department award to recognize his academic excellence at Century High School for Pre-Calculus. The assembly was based on Alice in Wonderland so Makenna went with us and had a great time, she loves that movie.