Fun week after school got out

Lulu got to meet her mother Sienna who lives in California.  She was in town visiting friends and Lulu's half brother River's family had everyone over to meet for a Doodle Romp.  Lulu's full blooded sister Lou C (same mother and dad but different litter) was there, her half brother River (same mom different dad), Heartley (Lulu's Aunt), and Pixel (River's new little sister and Heartley's baby).  The doodles had fun running around River's backyard and playing together.  It was so fun seeing how similar and different each of them were.  Lulu was one of the smallest but also one of the more chill of the pups.  It was fun watching Lulu interact with her mom.  She didn't seem to recognize her mom but Sienna seemed to recognize Lulu and sniffed her intently. 

Sweet Mama Sienna

Lulu and her Mama

Sweet Mama Sienna

Pixel, Lulu, Lou C, and River

LouC (Lulu's full blooded sister from same mom and dad) and Pixel

Group shot-LouC, Lulu, Sienna, River, Pixel, and Heartly

So hard to get the dogs to look at the camera

LouC, Pixel, and Lulu

Mama Sienna and Lulu

Lulu and Mama Sienna

We went up to Corvallis after spending Father's day weekend in Eugene to spend two days with my parents. We got to Corvallis in the early afternoon and went to the Alsea river with the dogs.  We went on a short hike around the Alsea River and then the kids and dogs went swimming in the river.  They both had so much fun.  The river was so pretty and it was fun watching Lulu explore the water.  Pumpkin didn't like the water as much as Lulu but still went wading too.

At the Alsea river

Hiking along the river

A boy and his dog

Running along the river

Lulu and Pumpkin best buds

Brandon went deep into the water

Going on a hike along the river

Beautiful Alsea river

Swimming in the river

Lulu the river bank

Down on the bank by the river

Lulu and Brandon wadding out deep

Having so much fun swimming

Pumpkin liked the water just not quite as much as Lulu

CiCi went wading too

Beautiful swimming area

The next day we had fun going to Walnut Park in the morning and then we went swimming at Otter Beach.  The weather was beautiful the kids had a lot of fun swimming.  It was nice that they could swim so well on their own.  The following day we had to leave but we had fun dressing up Tory's old American girl dolls and playing with them.  We also went to Avery Park in the morning with both dogs and had fun playing on the train and the dino bones.  The kids were sad to leave CiCi and Baba's house but we had a fun short visit.

Such good companions now

Sweet Pumpkin

Brandon and Pumpkin

BFFs

Olivia made it across the monkey bars

Such a perfect summer activity-climbing trees at Walnut Park

Sweet Brandon in the tree at 8.5 years old

Sweet Olivia at almost 6

Hugging the tree like a red panda!

On top of the train at Avery Park

Walking both dogs

Pumpkin and Lulu amongst the roses at Avery Park

Sweet Lulu

Had so much fun taking the pups pictures

Lulu at almost 1 year old

Such pretty roses

Olivia with Samantha and Kirstin

Watch out there is a pirate!

We got back to Portland and went to the zoo the next day.  It was a sunny beautiful day and we had a lot of fun exploring the Great Northwest.  The kids even got to pet the goats.  We went on the carousel and attempted to see Mei Mei the red panda but she was sleeping.

On the carousel at the zoo

Petting her favorite goat

Brandon petting his favorite goat