Fun in Oregon

We went to Oregon last week for my sister’s wedding (more on that later) and decided to make a vacation out of it and spent a week there. We helped with wedding prep part of the time, but we still had time to relax and do a few fun things. Unfortunately, the first couple of days were rainy, but then it warmed up and the weather was great.

Bennett had fun playing with his cousins and grandparents. Every time his grandpa went outside to do yardwork, Bennett was right there tagging along.  Most of the time he just followed him and talked to him, but he did attempt to help a few times. He also had fun finding “fred”, the frog who lives in my parents’ hose holder thing. Actually, this is not the real Fred but a smaller frog who has taken up residence in the hose reel.

  On Tuesday, Nate and I went to lunch downtown to a restaurant my sister & brother worked at in high school. Fortunately, it was warm enough that we could sit outside in the back by the creek and walked around for a little while afterwards. That night, my family watched the kids again so we could go to a play at the

Shakespeare festival. It had been a long time since I had been to one, and Nate hadn’t ever gone, so it was fun to experience what makes Ashland famous. The cheap tickets were sold out by the time we decided to go a couple weeks earlier, but we went to the box office about 45 min. before and were able to get nicer seats for 1/2 price since it was right before the show. It was pretty entertaining – neither of us knew the story line and there admittedly points where we really didn’t know what they were talking about with the fancy Shakespeare language, but it was fun.

When the weather did warm up, we took advantage and took the kids to Garfield Park, where there are some fun water fountains. Bennett was the most adventurous and ran under the fountain that just dumped water on his head, which was pretty surprising – he is usually not the adventurous one. 

    

Three wet boys eating a snack 

It was a fun week – great to have a little vacation, built-in babysitters so Nate and I could have a little one-on-one time, lots of time with family, and cousins and new toys for Bennett to play with. I’ll do a separate post with all the wedding pics!