The Rickers

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Splash Park

We ventured one Friday afternoon to a nearby Splash Park. The kids had a great time, although Sawyer was much more entertained by the drinking fountain than the sprays!!

Here we go!

Quinn loved it!!

Always finding something to climb on....

Enjoying the water fountain

Quinn made some friends....

The Gang of kiddos!

Wow! So far behind on blogging it's not even funny!
Here are some photos from Memorial Day weekend...

Jay, Heather, Gwen, Jenn and Bentley-Boo surprised us from Utah!!

Roger and Jay

Surprising Grandma....

Dad with Jenn and Bentley

Grandma and Grandpa with Gwen, Bentley and Sawyer

Breakfast at McCrae's is a must!!

Josh, Sawyer, Jordan, Bentley, Jenn, Judy, Roger, Jay, Gwen and Heather

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Our cute dobles!!

Bentley keeping himself occupied during breakfast!!

Great weather = Great Camping!!

Sawyer enjoying the bubble machine

Chad with Gwenners!

Cute Gwen

Cort watching some cartoons! (We camp it rough!!)

Jacki meets Gwen....

Julz stopped by....

Lots of time spent with the kiddos on their bikes!

Chad, Chase and Chum

Gwen and Quinn in the Chariot

Kisses for Bentley-Boo...

Quinn meets Gwen for the first time

Quinn riding Soy's trike...more cute Gwen-a-Lou!!

Sawyer goes for a ride with pops!

Riding Dusty's bike and using a squirt gun....

Todd getting his turn with Gwen...

We had a fabulous weekend and it was so fun to have the dobles and Jenn and Bentley-Boo there! We were spoiled with absolutely NO RAIN which hardly ever happens! Can't wait for next year....

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Veteran's Flag Plant

Willamette National Cemetery

We went with the scouts in our church to help plant flags up at the Veteran's Cemetery last week. Sawyer, of course, had a blast. He loved helping Dad plant the flags and saluting each grave!

The crowd of volunteers. We listened to a short 10 min. program before we started planting the flags

The soldiers did a gun salute for us

Some of our scouts...Brandon, Clark, Kyle and Jacob

Helping Dad plant each flag

And a salute to say how grateful we are for our freedom!!

All done with our section.

Sawyer and Daddy

A lovely sunset on our walk back to the car

We had so much fun doing this! Definitely a great tradition for our little family! The weather was amazing and Sawyer loved being outside. It was amazing to see all those graves...the many brave soldiers who have fought for our freedom! Willamette National Cemetery is a resting place for over 100,000 veterans and their families. They told us while we were there that it only takes 2 1/2 hours to plant all the flags on the whole cemetery because of all the volunteers. After Memorial Day...it takes the ground keepers 3 days to remove them. Anyone want to come with us next year??