Memorial Day at McNary Beach

I didn't quite finish blogging our last weekend so I'm catching up today. Last Monday before we headed home we went out to McNary Beach and played in the water and ate some lunch. Alyssa invited two of her friends and had a blast. The funny part of the story is that the kids were wanting to go and as always we didn't quite have a plan and weren't sure what was going on. So they all got there swimsuits on, Alyssa called her friends and told them what time to meet us and they came down and told us we're going at 1230. Cracked me up. When I said to Alyssa you need to ask me before inviting friends she you said you guys can't make a decision so we "kids" decided to make it for you. :O) I had to laugh.

One of the big things I miss about Hermiston are the great friends Alyssa had...luckly she still has them. Alyssa, Kaitlyn, & Giselle (Sorry if I spelled your name wrong:O).
Their homemade hottub
The groupThe girls getting Ryan all wet.
Braydon
Abby
CailahSaying goodbye to GrandpaLately Delayna's fun thing has been the hello and goodbye wave and shout. She says it as you are walking by to head downstairs or coming up the stairs or back from work. Totally cracks me up. We caught a little footage of her before we left for the beach.


The water was very cold...I just didn't even take my suit so the kids wouldn't ask me to get in. I figured stand by life guard was good enough. Here are a few shots of the kids dunking themselves. I wish you could see Braydon's face....the look of shock and horror at the coldness his little body must have felt. In this video it looks like he's looking at the water and saying, "is that all you've got...and yeah I'm the man." I don't know.....something about it cracked me up probably because I saw his face.


Cailah was hilarious because she was the first to "dunk" herself....I'll let the video talk for itself.


The group did a dive for us.....Braydon wins the stayed under the longest award. He was also the first out but his little body just gets so cold.

Alyssa's Tennis

Alyssa played tennis this year, her first school sport. She is doing really well and loves to play which I love because we can do it together. She's going to pass me up pretty soon and start beating me. Here's her tennis team picture. She only got to play in a few matches this year but her record is 3-0. Not that winning is everything but it sure can be fun. :O)

Photo Shoot

In preparation of the photo shoot/shoots we had this weekend, Randy & Ryan went outside with us and did some posing to find good places to take pictures. I'm not sure it actually helped we us looking at the background and figuring out good places because I was too distracted by the subject. I'm not sure that muscle posing and poppies are generally seen as a masterful combo but I enjoyed it. :O)

Sometimes you get the best pictures when you are just playing around. Aren't these sweet!!
I know Alyson already posted cute pictures of her kids on her blog....however, they are so stinking cute I wanted to brag about them on my blog. :O) I'll put a few different ones so it's not as boring. :O) Not that they can be boring because they are soooo stinking cute.
I LOVE mom & dad's poppies....aren't they beautiful....ok the kids are cute too. :O)
Al posted the picture of Delayna peeking out through the railing but what she did show you was this....aren't they cute.
Here's my beautiful girl. While we were taking these pictures and I was looking at her I felt like I was taking senior pictures....very scary.

All the kids together

Here are a few of my favorite Alyssa & I's family pictures. These were a lot of work...for some reason sometimes when I take photo's I don't look like myself....it is a very strange phenomenon but it's true, you can ask Al & Ry. :O) Anyhow here are a few of my favorites.
We had some problem with sunspots in our first photo shoot so Ryan came out and held an umbrella for us in the second to help avoid that. Of course he is a huge help if you want your photos' to be of you totally cracking up :O) I can't put all of them or the blog will be too big. :O)

The last photo shoot shot. Luckily dad walked out and we got him in it. I just noticed mom isn't in any of my pictures.....No worries I'll get you next time. :O) I was going to talk about how when dad went to get in the picture he fell backward while trying to sit down....but I know how we tease him all the time and I thought I'd give him a break. :O)

Weekend at Grandma and Grandpa Bell's

We are having a great time in Hermiston. We got in late Friday night, did a little talking and headed to bed. Saturday we got up and played some tennis. (Sorry I was too busy playing that I didn't get any pictures taken :O) Alyssa headed off to the swimming pool with her friends. Dad, Randy, Ryan, and I headed to the Echo golf course. (Check out that forearm) So I don't play very well but I have a fun time, I did get one par in the nine holes and a few really great drives right in to a couple of trees....that takes talent, those tree trunks aren't very big. :O) Randy is even more talented than I am, he actually sliced right through a branch. Well done Randy!!!

Randy actually ended up playing not badly however his drives weren't going like he wanted.....so he decided to call on the tee gods to help him. You'll have to look closely to see what calling on the tee gods entails.

I can really remember what our conversation was that prompted this video but it was funny so I thought I'd throw it up.

I didn't get a lot of pictures taken this trip. Ok we took a lot of pictures as we had photo shoots of the kids for their yearly pictures. You can take a look at Alyson's blog for the highlights of that. Speaking of Alyson's blog....if you have read it already you know that there was a small little incident involving myself and the trampoline. Luckily I didn't not break my leg in two as I thought I was going to when I was upside down in the air and realized my folley. However I thought you might like to see the successful flip prior to the crash. :O) Yeah I'm not sure if I will be doing many more flips on the trampoline as I'm a little scared....I think I'll stick with flips off the swing.