Washington!

After our time in Oregon came to an end we headed to Washington to hang out for another week. Although it felt like we were away forever we had fun spending lots of time with family. The kids went swimming on numerous occasions… We took all the kids to the splash park and after going down the water slide once Conner was hooked. He had a huge grin on his face the whole way down and when it was over he said “Water slide, it so fun!” We kept going down over and over again for the ENTIRE time that we were there! After each ride he would get out and say “All done! Go again!” and would immediately get back in line. Luckily I thought it was really fun too! When I said “weee” all the way down it wasn’t just for Conner’s benefit…

We went out to see Grandpa’s cows and I think all of the kids were in heaven… besides Jayden, he didn’t really care…
Conner’s favorite thing was to bump their water containers and watch all of the flies scatter… yuck! The kids played in the cotton seed but Conner wasn’t too interested because he was obsessed with the “tractor” parked nearby.
After visiting the dairy we met up with Grandpa who gave all of the kids a ride on his tractor. Conner has been loving tractors lately so he was a big fan.
One day a few of us adults escaped without children and went cliff jumping at Goose. I wasn’t entirely convinced that I would jump but I ended up surprising myself. We had SO much fun!

On a daily basis the older kids would ask to hold Jayden. Josh especially loved cuddling with him… it was SO sweet!

At the park...Conner was too young to tag along with the older boys but Claire was nice enough to be his buddy. They played outside together and I once found them playing dollhouse...