Our short trip to Portland

Our family loves Ikea and we use to live 1 hour from it. Now we live almost 4 hours from Ikea :( We planned a short trip to Portland to go to Ikea to get a few things for our new place. The first day we hung out in Vancouver, WA. I loved our hotel. I did not know you could get a 2 room and 2 bathroom hotel room! The second day we went to Ikea. On the way home, we stopped at Multnomah Falls. It was beautiful and a nice little hike.

Scary windmills

 Mt. Hood

Fall goodness...my favorite season!

One of our rest stops

Brooklyn shaking her booty (long story why she has to shake her booty every hour)

My rock climbing, firefighter husband that was so nervous about this bridge :)

Loving the fall weather

I Can't Wait Until I Turn 8!

In preparation for my little baby's 8th birthday, I wanted to get special pictures of her taken for her big baptism day! My very talented friend took the pictures at the Columbia River temple and I just love how they turned out. Addison loved every minute of it! 

Family pictures

We found a very talented girl in our ward to take our family pictures. I love the way she captured my family! I found out later that Caemlyn did not want to smile and kept making goofy faces. She is such a silly girl! There are a TON of pictures, but I cannot just pick a few to put on this post. I like too many of them!

Graduation is here!

After a long 3 months, Ben has graduated from the State of Washington Fire Academy!! He really enjoyed the other recruits that he was able to work with for the past 3 months. He finished top in his class (tied for first actually). I am so proud of all of his hard work and his accomplishments!! We drove over to Seattle area to attend his graduation. His Mom, stepdad, Dad, and brother, Nate, were able to come which was really nice. Ben gave a great speech at the graduation. Ben works on Monday and then we will be moving all of our stuff to Kennewick on the 1st of August. We are looking forward to be together again!