Labor Day Trip to Portland

We went to Portland to visit Randy's brother Jay and his wife Mandi over Labor Day weekend. We had a great trip just relaxing and having Jay and Mandi watch the kids a lot of the time we were there. We went to Oaks Park Amusement Park on Labor Day, and got there just as many of the 16,000 people celebrating labor unions were leaving. We spent about 2.5 hours on the rides, which was perfect. Abby was ready to be done when the park closed at 7pm. Abby loved the rides! It was the first time she had gone on carnival rides. The slide was one of her favorites. Judy took her on the Ferris wheel, and A. Mandi took her on several other rides like the Up, Up, and Away and the Frog Hopper.

Here are some pictures of the trip.

It took a LOT of work to keep Abby on the giraffe while we waited for the ride to start. We ended up switching to a pig and I rode on it with her. She enjoyed the ride a lot once it finally got going.

A very serious driver. :)

Abby's very first carnival ride. See the look of fear on her face? She had no idea what we were getting her into, and didn't really want to find out either. But we all cheered her on and persisted, and she caught on quickly.

Frog Hopper. See little Abby next to Mandi on the left side of the ride?

Randy and Abby went down the slide together 3 times!

And they went on the train ride together.

Hi Jay and Mandi! (our view of them from the ferris wheel)

Can you find Randy? (taken from the top of the ferris wheel)

A self-photo while on the ferris wheel

What a happy family :) (U. Jay and A. Mandi with Abby and Ryan)

Abby is learning how to feed her brother. She's a little rough yet, but she's getting it.

Foosball with U. Jay

My high school friend Andrinna lives in the Portland area, and we managed to meet up and visit for a couple hours while we were down there. We hadn't seen each other since we graduated (17 years ago!).

Cute picture of Abby, taken at church on Sunday.

Jay had just gotten a Nintendo Wii, so we goofed off with that a bunch. Thanks for the relaxing weekend guys! We also wanted to mention Jay and Mandi's friends Darryl and Tana as they helped watch Abby one night. They are special people!