Swimming at Pronghorn

While in Oregon we stayed at Uncle Denny's house (Brad's uncle). They have an awesome community pool that is perfect for kids. It even has a water slide which was a favorite of the kids. 

We spent all of Friday here and part of Saturday.   

I tried to get a picture to document that I was there too.  

They even played some flyers up. 

On our way

Just adding to our busy summer.  We made the trip down to Oregon to go to a family wedding.   It was a HOT day so we had some fun watching the temperature go up.  Brad got a picture that said 110.  Thank goodness for air conditioning. 

 

But the air conditioning is probably the thing that put this trusty mini van to the limit.  Just as we were making our way up the mountain I noticed the needle getting closer to the maximum line.  Yes, I was driving and this seems to happen to me a lot.  Maybe I'm too hard on the car.  Or maybe we were driving up a hill with the air conditioning on full blast on a very HOT day. 

We weren't in a very good cell service area but thankfully Brad was able to make some phone calls.   It turned out it wasn't too bad so we continued....with the heat blasting and the windows rolled down.  We made it all the way to Bend without the needle going any higher than the midway point.  

And these kids...whined a little but mostly were great! 

Annual Alki Beach Day

My friend Jen and I were able to schedule our annual Alki beach day. I like to do it during one of the last two weeks of the summer but with both of our calendars we were only able to go on August 1. 

And just like every year we all had a blast! 

You may have noticed we had a few extra kids with us.  My neighbor girls were with us for a few hours and Jen brought an extra boy.

Hollywood

On their last day Brody's request was to go see the Hollywood sign.  If you look it up on google you can find all different ways to get as close to the sign as possible. Brad found one of them (that didn't involve hiking) and they went.  I think they did a pretty darn good job.  

Brad thought this sign was funny... persecuted? 

They also went to see the Hollywood Stars and got one picture of a contemporary star that Brody knew.

After Hollywood they headed over to the La Brea Tar Pits.

There was an art museum next door so they took a few pictures before they had to head to the airport. 

I am so thankful Brad & Brody had this weekend together.  The only bummer was the postponement of the Hall & Oates concert.  If that could have been a part of this weekend it would have been the most Epic.  Instead it was almost Epic.