Daddy's Girls

Matt and had the honor of being invited to celebrate Evan and Hannah's wedding in Oregon and it was a beautiful weekend! It was the first trip we had taken alone since we went to the Florida Keys a few years ago and it was nice to get away. My whole immediate family was there so we didn't get a ton of alone time, but we did have our own Airbnb and got to have breakfast together each day. We got there on a Thursday and the rehearsal dinner was that night. Friday was our free day and me, Matt, Dad, Janet, Jennifer and Allison drove around to sightsee and did a few short hikes. We drove across the Washington state line to have lunch too. Everyone was pretty tired that night, but me, Matt, Jennifer and Allison went to a wine bar for a couple of hours at the hotel where they were staying and watched a musician  We wanted to do a hike that day that we did not have time for, so me, Matt and Allison left about 730 Saturday morning to do the 2 1/2 mile hike up to Multnomah Falls. Those ...

Piper ended up getting to stay for 11 days and she and the girls had the best time. It was a last minute trip so we didn't have a big thing planned for each day like past years because we had to work, but they loved the downtime at the house together too. We did go to a movie, went to dinner one night and went to a movie, so we did do a few things. Of course there was lots of time at Vivette's and Piper was happy to get to feed the horses and she even got to ride twice  The highlight of the visit was probably the day we went to the lake for the 4th of July. They jumped off the deck, swam in the pool, went for a boat ride and ate burgers and hot dogs  We were thankful to Capn and Yaya for letting us go!  We also had a good time at fireworks at Cypress Baptist on the 2nd. Holly and Madison came to visit too and we got 2 nights with them while she was here  We were sad to see her go, but she had to get back to her horse and Matt and I had to get ready for our trip to Po...