Saturday, April 18, 2009

25th Wedding Anniversary

At the end of February we traveled to Portland to celebrate Mom & Eric's 25th wedding anniversary. They knew we were coming, but the weekend plans were a surprise. We also went to Portland to meet our new neice, Ava. What a sweet baby girl and wonderful addition to our family. My parents have received 5 grandchildren in 3 1/2 years!

For their anniversary day, we drove to Seaside (a wonderful little town on the Oregon Coast). On our way we stopped at The Tillamook Cheese Factory to see how cheese was made and we all had some of their delicious ice cream. After our ice cream snack we headed on to our cute little hotel that had different themed rooms. My sister Erika's room was probably the craziest- it was the Monopoly Room (you can only imagine!). We got all dressed up and then headed to my uncle's restaurant, McKeown's Restaurant & Bar. There was family and friends waiting at the restaurant to surprise my parents and they were definitely surprised! We had a wonderful evening together celebrating my parent's marriage of 25 years.


Brady's excited to see his new cousin Ava. Kind of surprised he didn't give her a head butt to welcome her to the family as that is his favorite thing to do these days.


Talia and Kendal at the Tillamook Cheese Factory


Paying homage to the legacy of marriage my parents are passing on to us children


Grandpa Eric with Jagger


My sister Carissa gets ready to cut the cake for my parents


Auntie Erika and Talia


Erika and her boyfriend, Alex


Sam & Brady at the dinner table


Erika, Dad, & Keegan


My mom's parents came all the way up from California to help celebrate


Grandparents with a lot of the grandkids

1 comment:

Shilo said...

You all look so happy! What a special time!