*Bailey's off to CanyonView* (summer daycamp for the week)

bailey was soooo excited to start camp this week, at canyonview they get to creek walk, candle making, horseback riding, swimming in the lake , canoeing, gardening, cooking, painting, hiking, sing songs, and bible study for the week, each morning she rides a bus at 8 am from the church to silverton and gets dropped back off at the church at 4 pm, her cousin amaiya and one of the other kids i watch alyssa went as well so it was nice bailey had friends to go with. she absolutly LOVED it and can't wait to go back next summer (its expensive but well worth the money we found out)

i know this pic is not very clear but its all they sent home with the kids (and it was on paper) bailey is on the bottom

Drive Inn Night

Tonight with our friends we took the kids to the Dallas drive inn to watch disney's "UP" (cute movie)

Swanson Park Action Center Pool

It was a really warm day today on brandon's birthday, we suprised him this morning with a new game (wow) for his "new" computer and his own account to play his game on, with some new clothes as well, then we headed out to swim in albany!

peyton LOVES the water (like the other two) she splished and splashed all around today in it even putting her face in the water!

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Wildlife Safari

the 2 older kids had not been in a few years and peyton had never been, so we decided to take a trip to southern oregon to wildlife safari for the day, we packed up a lunch and lots of drinks in a cooler and headed out
it was a long drive for the kids but they did fine, we only had to stop for 1 potty break

she was so excited!

this was really funny how he had his legs sprawled out to get his neck under for food!

peyton and ryley waving thru the mirror

for $20 you can have the elephants wash your car (guaranteed to NOT get your car clean ha)
but it sure was cute, they had little sponges they were holding with their trunks wiping the windows, and they would put their trunks right smack up against the window so you could see just how much water they held in those things while they sprayed!

peyton got to drive

after we went thru the park the first time we stopped at the little "safari village" in the front, to go potty and eat some lunch and walk around and see some of the other animals

bailey brought her camera so she took lots of pics too!

bailey's like me, she knew these goats carried germs so she didn't really want to touch them very much ha ha!

our lil wild animals!

bailey taking pictures of the monkey's

then we took a little train ride around to see even more animals (ryley went to he was just too cool and refused to be seen in the pictures on a kiddie train ha)

the ducks were fun to feed, we bought some duck food and the kids sat and fed them for close to 20 minutes, peyton just LOVED it and did not want to leave them (i think it was her favorite part of the park)

then we drove thru one more time around the safari before it was time to head home and glad we did because we got to see the rhino's this time and a giraffe came right up to our window!

we started heading back home about 5 stopped in corvallis and ate some kfc, we had a fun but long day, next time we decided we will get a hotel and stay to let the kids swim and take a break from the car, but we definatly had fun!