2009 Family Vacation to National Parks

Recently our family returned from a 10 day vacation through several states and multiple national parks and monuments. I'm in the process of compiling some of the pictures to show you a day-by-day photo log of our "incredible" journey.

Day 1 was spent traveling from Eugene, OR to Los Angeles, CA. Shirl Hendrickson (Tricia's Dad) wanted to go on the trip so we rented a mini-van.

We ate lunch at a rest stop and the kids played around in the grass and California sunshine.
My father agreed to lend me his spare camera, so I was able to take some quality pictures.

Somewhat Daily Ramblings

I've decided to follow the modern trend and keep a somewhat "daily" (yeah right) journal/thought/discussion blog in addition to this family blog. My other blog will likely be updated more often than this blog and will focus more on random thoughts or experiences that I have had recently. Lol, I do not expect a large following, but if your interested in hearing or responding to my ramblings please visit. the address is: http://cbevans-thoughts.blogspot.com/


Chris

Hanging the door on the scout shed

Mondy was a holiday: Civil Rights Day in Oregon? or Martin Luther King Jr. Day? it was one or the other, I know Oregon calls it something different than many other states. Regardless, Kelly Weber and I decided to hang the garage (type) door on the scout shed that we have been building at the church. I took some pictures and decided to post them here since the scouts do not have a blog yet.

As you can see it was quite a project and we figured it out as we went along.

Kyle's 4th Birthday!!

Kyle had his fourth birthday on the 7th of January. His cousins, aunts and uncles, and grandparents came over for pizza, cake and Ice cream.

Kyle was very excited that he got a bunch of cars, cloths, and military vehicles; he ate his can of Lightning McQueen spaghetti-O's the very next day for lunch!! Tricia spent many hours making Kyle a cake that was in the shape of a backhoe (digger).

Grandma Bevans made sure that before she left for Kentucky to visit the McRoberts that she had plenty of presents and even an "It's my birthday" shirt for Kyle to enjoy.

Hanging Christmas Lights

Well, this is late, but early December the family worked together to hang our Christmas lights. Josie, in particular, had a very fun time climbing the ladder and messing with the strands of lights. Charlotte somehow got ahold of the camera and started taking pictures. I obviously had just come home from work and apparently couldn't be bothered with changing into Chritmas-light-hanging-friendly clothes. Oh well, they wash.