Time goes on!!!!

Fun times at the Zoo. 

Having Fun….Road Trip

Yah, it’s still raining.

Pacific Ocean 1

Pacific Ocean 2

Pacific Ocean 3

Land scape 1

Land scape 2

Wonna go on a glider ride?

Fields getting ready for crops.

Green fields.

Bay by the Aquarium.

White fence around the fence.

Sexy Mom with the Kids.

Kids looking into the colorfull fish tank.

Ain’t I just perty?

Mommy, Mommy, neat fish!!

Small Jelly Fish.

This crab will get to 13 feet across and up to 40 pounds. It is found just of the shores of Japan.

Kids in a bubble with a school of fish all around.

Big Jelly Fish tank.

Wow, big Jelly Fish.

Fish and life found around a Jetty.

Looking at the Clambs and Star Fish.

Roman will squeal like a little girl but he won’t touch.

Awwww, Ava is finally happy.

Wonna suck face?

Roman is excited about the Seals….he wants to touch them.

Family headed in the Passages of the Deep.

How deep is it?

40 pound Halibut.

Shark.

More Sharks!

Run, Sharks everywhere…..!!!!!!!!!!

Family after the Passages of the Deep.

Kids with SuperHero Roman in front.

Sign out by the Marsh.

The Marsh.

Okay, lets head home……

Talk to the hand dad…..our daughter is now a Tween.

Hey, in Oregon we don’t have to use coins to make our streams work….aren’t we special?

This last weekend we went to the coast to Newport, OR to the Aquarium. We saw a lot of Oregon that we haven’t been able to see. It has a lot of fields that have been cleared to plant crops.

 

Here are some video’s of the trip:

 

Going to the BIG mountain

Huge Pipe just off the Lewis and Clark Bridge

About a quarter of the way across the Lewis and Clark Bridge

View off the Lewis and Clark Bridge

Distance Sign

I 5 north exit 49 headed to Mt St Helens

Mt St Helens vistor sign

Silver Lake

Visitors Center MSH

Bridge at the edge of the blast zone. Built after the 1980 eruption.

Driving in the clouds

Headed up the Mountain

Sign 3 at the Blast Zone Brige

Sing 2 at the Blast Zone Bridge

Sign at the Blast Zone bridge

The car and Mt St Helens

Debris Feild 1

Debris Feild 2

Debris Feild 4

Mt St Helens 1

Mt St Helens 3

Mt St Helens 4

Mt St Helens in Perspetive

New growth 2 – Since May 1980

All of the growth in this area is new – since May, 1980

Water Fall

Mt St Helens 2

Mt St Helens – close to summit 2

Mt St Helens – close to summit 1

Debris field on video

Water fall on video

We had to leave the house this last Saturday so we went up to Longview WA then over to Mt St Helens.  It was awesome to see the power of nature.  There is a bridge that is over 20 miles from the mountain and everything between it and the mountain was destroyed by the blast and that includes the heat from the blast.  You can see the Toutle River were debris mixed in with the melted snow came rushing down off the mountain.  So much debris made it to the Columbia River that shipping had to be halted for over a week while it was cleaned out.  When the river was reopened, the ships had to wait fro high tide and even then they only had 30 feet to work with.  The normal debth was 40 feet.  If too much water comes down that river today it still floods easy and can bring more silt down into the Columbia.

If any of you have seen my weight loss section, you would have noticed that I haven’t updated it for a while.  I may change it a bit because it is difficult to get that much information on a daily bases.  I am still working at the goal.

Visiting Portland

Bishops Storehouse In Portland

The cutiest kids ever -minus three others

DI in Portland

Downtown 3

Downtown 4

Foss Marine – They run tug boats and barges on the river system.

Glass Towers

Mt Hood loomes over the city

Mt Hood riseing up in the distantance

Looking at Mt St Helens over the 205 Freeway

Mt St Helens

We always pass this old building going to Portland. It is right by the St John’s Bridge

Downtown Porland 1.5

Downtown Portland with Mt Hood in the background

Rose Garden (were the Trailblazers play)

Ship Loading yard

Downtown Portland 1

Downtown Portand 2

We went to Portland yesterday because of the Open house and things we needed to get done.  Holly’s blog has all of the details http://zittingzoo.wordpress.com.  While we were there Holly took some good pictures.  I didn’t post all of them but only some of the best.  It gives you a good flavor of portions of the city.  We still have allot to see ourselves.

New Roads

Downtown Salem, OR’s Convention Center

Downtown Salem, OR – Convention Center sign.

Downtown Salem, OR – This old building is one of the tallest and near the Convention Center.

Roman trying out the driving thing and saying cheese for his license.

Farmland north of Salem, OR with Mt Hood in the background

Farmland north of Salem, OR – West side of I 5

Farmland north of Salem, OR with Mt Hood in the background.

Mt St Helens at sunset.

Mt Hood at sunset.

Elder Mathew and Elder Hurst come by this evening to say hi. We haven’t seen much of them lately.

The weather here has been crazy.  As you know we received some record snow.  Then right after that we received allot of rain in a short period of time to create flooding.   Now we are getting sunshine and wind.  Wind is not out of the norm, just combined with sunshine, it shouldn’t be happening. 

Today we decided to try out a new area.  Holly and the kids have never been south of Wilsonville, OR.  We went down to Salem and drove around a little.  We went downtown and stopped by WinCo to take care of the kids for a few minutes.  Ava was in need of some eat’n.  Roman tried his hand at trying to drive.  Then we tried to find the Capital Building.  We did find the area but we needed to get headed home.  Holly was starting to hurt.  We did get some neat video and pictures.

Windy

Temple view headed south on I 5

Roman tries to drive the car

Kinda view of the Temple headed north on I 5 – Kruse Way is the exit for the temple