We are down to our last week here in Oregon..........boo hoo!!!!!! We are having a hard time swallowing that our summer adventure is coming to an end and school is right around the corner. In a way it will be nice getting back home and our lives there, but we hate leaving here. We really have enjoyed ourselves and have grown very fond of Oregon.

The kids have loved going to work with Mark and playing hide and seek in the mattress warehouse. They literally run and run all day and wear themselves out.

Colton in the maze of mattresses

Pallet Jacks are fun to ride the kids tell me!

Kylie still wide awake and Taylir sound asleep on the floor in Mark's office

While the kids are at work with Mark, I stay behind and read Breaking Dawn, the final book from the Twilight series. I'm about 100 pages from the end. Kylie of course is finished with it and Taylir is not too far from finishing herself. We went to a Twilight Party the night before the book came out - It was at one of the St. Helens girls' house that we met when we were here over Spring Break on the movie set of the book. Her name is Rochelle and she is awesome and knows how to throw a party! She had her whole house decorated in red and black (twilight colors) We played a Twilight version of Jeopardy, ate Twilight themed food and made t-shirts for "Team Edward" or "Team Jacob" that we wore to Barnes and Noble where we stood in line with 1,000 other eager Twilight fans to purchase the book. We have really loved getting to know the whole bunch of St. Helens girls.

Taylir has been training with the St. Helens Cross Country Team 3 mornings a week while we've been here. She's even made a few friends!! I knew that she needed to keep up with her running while here, being that she is missing all of her practices back home. Since I have to drive her to the school in the morning, me and Kylie decided that we would jog around the track while we wait for her. It's pretty exhilerating breathing in the cool, crip air of Oregon first thing in the morning. We will miss the temperature and fresh air here. We've had 60-s and 70's the majority of the time we've been here and haven't had any rain until last night while we were sleeping. Oregon summers are awesome!! I don't know if we'll be able to handle the dry 100's heat of Utah's August.

Tonight I had the kids go take pictures of the llamas across the street from our campground. Every time I take the dogs out potty the llamas come to the fence and stare at us and then make a funny noise like they are laughing at us. We've nicknamed them "The Laughing Llamas". It's so funny to sit and watch them stare and "laugh" at us. We took Tank over to see them up close tonight and the llamas weren't as brave as they made themselves out to be....they backed up and went the other direction. Guess they are only interested in the dogs from a distance.

Life in the trailer hasn't been that rough. We did better than I thought we would in the crowded space. I think this experience has been wonderful and it will be a memory that the kids will have forever. What a fantastic Summer!!!!!