Todd's Birthday Weekend

Todd had a fun weekend celebrating his 34th birthday. He was able to kayak on all of his days off and spend some quality time with family. On Thursday he drove the truck with the camper to Joe Bob's surfing hole on the Clackamas river. He liked having the option of staying dry and getting all of his gear on.
After kayaking, we took a nice walk and went over to a local playground. Meadow gets so excited to be at the playground and loves to run in between the different play structures.

Here she is at the top of a pretty steep slide. She loves to go down all by herself.

Meadow with her daddy on his birthday

In the evening, we went out to dinner at the Rendevous. Meadow is really working on talking and loved to say the Rendevous or "Rebebous". It has been fun hearing all her new expressions. One of my favorites is " I see you." The next evening we had a little impromptu bbq. It was in the 60's and sunny so we thought that was a good excuse to invite some friends over. We invited Jen and Tony and their daughter Maddie to join in on the festivities. Tony has been gone on and off for the past six months for training for his job. So, it was good to see him back with his family. Meadow and Maddie always have a great time together. They are growing up so fast.

Meadow always likes to sit with us on these chairs so she thought she should sit on Maddie's lap as well. Maddie wasn't too fond of that idea.

On Saturday the birthday festivities resumed over at Steve and Rita's house to celebrate Todd an Tyler's birthdays. Rita made an amazing meal with ribs and potatoes and Tonia had made a very yummy broccoli salad. I, of course, supplied the appetizer of guacomole and chips. It was really fun to watch Hope and Meadow interact. Hope is becoming so much more mobile. Meadow wasn't too excited that Hope wanted to play with all the toys she wanted to play with, but we were able to work on sharing. I even was able to capture a photo of the two of them sharing a toy.
In this photo, Hope looks like she is eyeing Meadow's toy.

Look at those gorgeous eyes!

Helping dad open his presents. He didn't actually get ziplock bags, but there was a message inside to go look out in the garage for his present. He got a reclining camping chair from his folks.

The birthday boys.

Meadow and Hope sharing a toy.

Meadow is in that stage where she wants to play with all the baby contraptions. It is so funny to see how big she is in this exercauser.