Beers Family

Monday, October 5, 2009

Building the deck stairs!

We have been so busy this summer that once the surface of the deck was built and one set of stairs completed, the other set was kind of put on hold. Bill finally had a chance to work on them a couple of weekends ago and here's the progress.

Abby had to be the first one to use the beautiful new "stayers".

Abby's first real movie!

Sunday, September 20th, we took Abby to see her first movie in a theater. She was so excited! Grammy watched Libby and we went to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which was nothing like the book (Abby pointed that out), but good anyway. She sat through the whole movie without too much fidgeting. Here are Abby and Daddy on the way into the theater.

I bought the tickets on Fandango and just printed them out when we got to the theater. It was great and super easy!

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Playing in the yard and baby proofing...

We've been having a little bit of fun around the house, too.

Abby helping Daddy move things around the backyard.

Oops!

Libby helping unload the dishwasher.

Libby has been getting into everything lately! I was fixing dinner the other day and rushed into the hall because Abby was screaming, "Mommy!" I got in the front hall and found Libby over half way up the stairs. Needless to say, we now have baby gates at the top and bottom of the stairs! I also had to put a childproof latch on the cupboard under the kitchen sink , because I found her playing in the plastic bags in there. She was having a great time, but I was not so amused.

More camping...

The next weekend, we camped again. This time at Honeyman State Park in Florence. This camping trip was with my Aunt Kathy, Uncle David, my cousin Carrie and her boys, Brenden and Jacob. It was a great time, even if it rained on Friday. My mom and dad and sister all came up to visit. I don't know that I could have handled two weekends of tent camping...especially since it was pouring down rain when we arrived. Luckily, Bill's dad let us borrow his motor home. It was awesome. Here are some pictures of the motorhome taken earlier in the month and then on to camping pictures....

Abby and Libby at their posts in the motorhome.

Happy Libby loves going camping!

Jacob, Abby, and Brenden spent most of the weekend in an on-going nerf dart gun fight.

Aunt Kathy and Carrie by the campfire.

Abby helps Uncle David with the fire.

Brenden and Jacob by the fire.

Libby ready for bed.

Even though it rained on Friday, Saturday was beautiful. It was nice enough that we all headed down to the lake to swim. Bill on the beach.

Grandma and Gramps came down to visit and hung out on the beach with us.

Relaxing on the beach.

Libby got worn out and took a nap with Grandma.

Brenden building a castle.

Abby working on the castle.

Aunt Rhonda helping Jacob and Abby with the castle.

Camping at Silver Falls...

We have done a lot of camping this summer. It's been great! We actually had two summers in a row that we were at state campgrounds. The first weekend was at Silver Falls State Park, which we had never camped at before. The group we went with at Silver Falls consisted of a bunch of engineers and their families, including Doug and Joy. I think we had 6 campsites with 8 or 9 families in all. There was an amazing potluck on Saturday and most went on a hike on Saturday to see the falls. Thanks to Ryan Jefferis for organizing it all!

The kids on the hike.

Abby keeping up with the crowd.

Playing in the water.

Doug and Abby.

Michael!

Victor, Abby, and Michael.

Abby and a waterfall.

Daddy and Libby by the campfire.

Libby in baby jail. She's the cutest!

Carly's 1st birthday!

Carly Webb turned one on August 12th! We went to a fun birthday party at her house the following Saturday. Bubbles, balloons, and cake...it doesn't get better than that! Happy Birthday, Carly!