Camping with the Harris's.....the other ones!

So, here's a funny little story. I used to be Krista Kieft and Adrienne used to be Adrienne Jenkins. Then we both married guys with the last name "Harris"....now we're both Harris's.....weird huh? It gets even more ironic. Adrienne and her husband Seth have three children. Ethan is about a year younger than Gavin. Emi is a couple of months younger than Alayna and Evan is a few months younger than Cade. Everyone has a buddy! So, what could be more fun than a camping trip? We drove out to the Columbia Gorge (a nice halfway spot as Adrienne and family travel from Walla Walla) and found a park with a beautiful view of the river. It was gorgeous! It was also incredibly hot the weekend we happened to go (100 degrees.....yikes!). Here's a few pics to document out weekend. Gavin wearing my glasses.....what a goofball!

Alayna and Emi picking blackberries.....those two were TOO FUNNY!

Keeping Cade out of the dirt was pretty much impossible....this is what he looked like most of the time!

Birthdays!

Yay! I found my USB cord so that I can upload pictures from my camera to the blog again. Of course, it took me finally giving up after looking for over a month and going to Best Buy to get another one. And as it always happens, once you buy a new one, inevitably you'll find the old one.....which is exactly what happened. Thankfully, I haven't opened the new one yet so I'll have to make a trip back to Best Buy to return it now. Its definitely been a busy couple of months. Summer is birthday season for us.....everyone but Chad gets to celebrate theirs during the summer months. Cade went first in May, then Alayna in June, then Gavin in mid-July and I get my special day at the end of July. Funny how the order goes from youngest to oldest....that wasn't planned by the way. Gavin wanted to spend his birthday with friends from school and he really wanted to go bowling. Here he is with Maddox (left) and Logan (right).

This was such a nice picture of Mom and Cade that we took before she left and I wanted to share it with the birthday pics as well.

Cade *loves* his ball pit that Grandma bought him for his birthday!

And he had a great time making a huge mess with his cake!

Alayna on her first "big girl" bike!

Gavin is very proud of his new bike!