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| One can never have too many birthday celebrations. |
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| Celebration #1: overnight and breakfast... |
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| at Great Wolf Lodge. |
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| Celebration #2: at Nana and Pop Pop's house. |
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| Celebration #3: at Grandma and Grandpa's house |
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| Celebration #4: with friends at Defy Air Sports. |
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| Happy 9th Birthday! |
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| End of summer fun: swimming and |
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| black light miniature golf. |
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| Back to school and |
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| football! |
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| Celebrating Dad's birthday on the plane to Portland. |
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| Fascinating stop at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry |
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| View of the Willamette River while in Portland |
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| Jumping Pacific Ocean waves (with Dad and Uncle JJ) in Seaside |
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| At Ecola St. Park with Haystack Rock and Cannon Beach in background |
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| K's personality can fill this chair. |
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| P. fulfilling the one activity he really wanted to do in Seaside. It is a multi-generational tradition. |
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| A visit to U. of O. in Eugene |
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| We love the Ducks. |
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| DJ Gavin at the Saturday night party. K and P provided dancing and sword fighting to the d.j. beat. |
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| The kids' favorite: jumping off the cliff. |
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| Look closely: that is Gavin midair with fine form. |
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| Kesleigh also showing fine form. |
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| A walk on the beach |
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| Hammock time |
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| Gavin taking a cooking class and using a very large knife. |
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| Oh, the food! |
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| The joy of choosing whatever you want to eat: crepes smothered in chocolate or pizza. |
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| The most beautiful senorita |
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| Iguana whisperer |
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| Family dinner in one of the restaurants. That is Gavin in the red shirt in the background. He is running because he is late for dinner. He stopped to read some signs - in Spanish. |
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| Trying coconut milk |
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| The Joules and the Joules |
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| Early May visit to Mommy's bench at the Zoo. |
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| Mother's Day visit to the bench with decorations and cards this time |
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| Gavin recovering from a cyst removal on his hand |
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| Preston and his badly bruised finger |
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| Kesleigh's selfie: no injuries noted |
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| We went hunting for tadpoles but only found 3 worms. |
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| We did, however, find a giant soccer ball and caught a huge gust of wind. |
