Our trip to Oregon

Krista and her girls, Lani and I all headed to Oregon in our van, to visit Tatia.  We had tried to talk Robynn into coming too, but she said she was not up for it,

 but then, she surprised us and came, it was so fun!

  We spent one day driving to the coast and doing site seeing there.

The kids loved playing on the beach

We loved watching them.

On our way home, we stopped at the Redwoods

The trees were HUGE!

We took a short hike and saw so many awesome trees, it was incredible!

There was no way to get back far enough to take a picture so you could see how huge the trees are.  I'm so glad we were able to go!

Robynn had a great idea for us to go to the temple and do Initiatories.  I hadn't brought a dress, so Tatia gave me one.  Robynn came out in the same dress, and it was the same one Lani brought.  Triplets!

Krista had brought a pink dress and Tatia hooked everyone else up with matching dresses for a fun picture.

Hailey made appointment for the big girls to do baptisms at the Medford temple which is only about 15 minutes away.

Tatia had lots of fun things planned, we did Christmas in July.

We put up a few decorations and had Christmas dinner.

The kids LOVED swimming in Tatia's beautiful pool and did so multiple times each day.

Tiny Gracie is the puzzle master, that girl can do 100 piece puzzles in no time at all.

The kids painted rocks,

All us girls embroidered hankies that Krista and Tatia made.  Tatia is definitely the Hostess with the mostess!  She had great accomodations and fixed the most delicious food for every meal.  She had been cleaning out closets and gave us bags of clothes for Zac, Finn and Porter from Simon, for Sophie from Penny, and for Hailey, Aida and me from her.   She is just the best!  It was such a great few days, we can't wait to go back!  Thanks Tatia for everything!