Mortons came to town!

5 days after we got back from San Diego we were lucky enough to have some of our favorite visitors, the Mortons!  Peter's sister Jennifer, her hubby Kris and her 4 kiddos had a family reunion in Cannon Beach so they came our direction afterward and we were SO excited.  We truly wish they lived closer, they are just that fun to be around.

They arrived on Sunday and we just had a great time eating and catching up.  Uncle Pete and Aunt April sure do love you Josh, Caleb, Hannah and Jason!  Benjamin had a blast playing (showing off) with his cousins, and Jonah just ate up all the extra attention.

Monday morning we went to Silver Falls State Park for a little hike behind the water falls.  I didn't take a lot of pictures since hiking with a 6 month old and a 2 1/2 year old is no small chore but it was a fun morning.

 Hannah, Jason, Benjamin, Caleb, Peter, Jonah, Kris

 we walked right behind this waterfall

 Hannah was a great help with Ben

 Jason loved climbing everywhere....

 ......so did Josh and Caleb!

 another set of waterfalls

Josh giving Benjamin a lift......good early training for fall sports huh Josh?

We ate a picnic lunch at the park, then played at the playground, threw the frisbee and football and let the kiddos splash in the river.  The sun wasn't out the whole time (it is Oregon) but we really enjoyed the day.  I'll have to steal pictures from Jennifer since I forgot to get my own camera out.

We came home that evening, stuffed our faces with hamburgers that Peter grilled for us, then we headed to our local pool for a night of swimming.  Josh had really been wanting to find a diving board on his trip and he was finally able to jump away at our pool.  Josh and Hannah dove over and over again, Caleb and Kris played basketball.  Jason and Benjamin swam in the big kiddie pool and Jonah swam around with Aunt Jennifer.  It was Jonah's first time swimming and he loved it.  He is such a little fish!

We came home, put the kids to bed, ate some more oreo ice cream dessert and just talked until we finally decided we'd better go to sleep.  We ate a lazy breakfast and then sadly had to help them pack up their stuff together because they were heading back to Idaho for a few more days before heading home to Ohio.  It was really sad to have them leave but we were so grateful they came for a visit.  I will always smile thinking of those couple of days.  Thanks for coming to visit Mortons, we love you so much.  Hope the little goodie bags didn't cause too much of a sugar high for the kids Jen!  :-)