Yes, just when you didn’t expect it, here is another one of our state park trips!
My brother, his wife and their daughter came to visit us this week from the Midwest. Now, I love the Midwest and, honestly, I think I would be happy as a pig in mud to live there (I almost said [...]
Wow, the first official day of my State Park goal and we visited two parks!
As I said, we had planned to hit Champoeg, which is about a 40 minute drive from our house, for the Harvest Festival. Now, on the road to Newberg (which is between us and Champoeg) is Bald Peak State Park. I [...]
Last night, I went bargain toy shopping with a couple of my friends and, during the drive back, I admitted my lofty goal. I want to visit all of the state parks in Oregon. Sounds easy, right? Well, there are 189 of them and Oregon is a BIG state. True, it’s not Alaska big–but it [...]
Well, our first little mini-vacation with Lillie is complete and what a time we had! I had hoped that we would be able to leave by about 10 on Friday, but–as it is when you have a baby–we got out closer to noon. I consider anything before 5pm a victory! Ha ha! We decided to [...]
