The fate of 8

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Out and About fun

Just a few photos from the week of our family being out and about having fun....

Family Bike ride on the evening of a beautiful blue sky day

Sarah with one of her best friends on a play date at the park

There are 3 Tishendorfs in the photo above....can you find them?

Shhhhhh....going under cover

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Adding our 5th bedroom!!!

With baseball season officially over, and no vacations on the calendar until August, we finally had the opportunity to put up the final wall, to enclose our 5th bedroom!!!

A view of our current "bonus room" that will now be Brandon and Ryan's bedroom!!

Room that will now be our bonus room -- closest to the bathroom made more sense!!!

Our construction crew!!!!

The supervisors!!!

Sarah choosing where the bedroom door should go

Matt giving us the other option for location -- Sarah's choice made the most sense for staging purposes

Tori helping out during framing

Ryan putting his muscles into it

The framed wall....sheet rock was put up later that night!

We celebrated Tori's 12th birthday with a couple of her friends (we've learned that the one big bummer about having a summer birthday is friends are at camps and on vacation and it is hard to get people together). They started the day off with lunch at Red Robin!!!

We had the restaurant to ourselves since we were one of their first customers, so the girls made the most of the opportunity to pose for pictures!

Tori standing on the chair, with balloons wrapped around her head and a spoon in her hand while they sang the birthday song to her.

The girls sharing the sundae

The girls spent the next 3 1/2 hours at Clackamas Aquatic Center in the wave pool and going down the slides and took a few breaks to go out and lay in the sun :) (in Oregon most of our pools are indoors)

In the evening we headed 40 minutes south to go to the twin's last baseball game of the season in Silverton, OR. Their team was in the playoffs to get into the county tournament. Unfortunately, they didn't make it, but the boys played hard and had a good season. Ryan is the first on the left. Ryley is in the center with his hand in front of his eyes shielding him from the sun, and Matt is the second on the right (he was assistant coach)

Tori with one of her friends that made the trip south to watch the game!

Ryley bunting, with Matt in the background as 3rd base coach. Photo by Tori

Ryan up to bat with Matt in the background as 3rd base coach.

A bunch of our friends made the trip south to cheer for the team!! Two of our friends are also baseball coaches for younger aged teams. We took the photo of the coaches all conversing and strategizing.

Happy Birthday Tori !!!

May all your birthday wishes come true!! We LOVE you!!!!

Monday, July 12, 2010

Sunday road trip

Sunday was a beautiful blue sky day, so we loaded up the bus, with no particular destination in mind, filled the gas tank and headed out for an adventure. We decided to head south, and eventually ended up on Hwy 22 and going east toward the Cascade range!

First dam we came to along the way

Waterway behind the dam

Detroit Lake and the dam to the right

Gorgeous lake, between the two mountains full of trees is a snow capped mountain covered by clouds. We think it may be Mt. Washington but aren't sure.

We stopped for lunch at Sammy's Pizza and must say they give Abby's a run for their money!! Pizza was delicious and got 8 thumbs up!!!

Tori, Sarah and Tyler checking out the temperature of the lake

Temperature was fine....Tori watching Ryan and Tyler test the water

Matt, Tori and Ryan swimming across the lake so they can dive off the big rock.

Ryley -- Who didn't feel like riding home wet and hung out with Brandon and I on shore.

Sarah watching the mama duck and her babies swim by

Rock diving

Me!!! Photo by Ryley!!!

Ryan diving off the log...camera has a bit of a delay...we may need to work on diving "form" in the future

Matt and Sarah swimming in the lake

The ducks

On our way home we stopped at my favorite ice cream dive "Big Burger" in Molalla. As we were leaving we saw sky divers coming down!!! (note here: Matt held my cone while I took a couple photos and my ice cream magically became 1/2 the original size)