Part two of the Eugene trip.

On Saturday, October 18th, we went to Kaila's swim meet and Levi's football game. Kaila and Levi are Kevin's kids. Barry and Dave went early to Autzen's Stadium where the Oregon Ducks play football. Levi is in Junior High and his team got to play in this stadium where the college team usually plays. Levi's team won the game. Barry took the video camera and got Levi playing. His dad, Kevin, is the coach.

This is Rose and Dave's house decorated for Halloween.We all went to watch Kaila swim at the pool. There were over 400 people in there. All the different age groups were swimming and their parents and family cheering them on.

Here is Kaila Lee before her meet. She is 6 feet 1 inches tall and can swim really fast. She gets her height from her dad. Kevin is 6 feet 4 inches tall.
She is in the black bathing suit and blue swim cap.
Get Ready!!
On your mark...get set...

GO!!! I took two video clips of her swimming, but of course they won't load on the computer because they are longer than one minute. Stupid computer. Anyway, Kaila came in first place in all of her events. She has received numerous college letters wanting her to go to their school, full ride scholarship included. She has her heart set on Stanford in California. Kaila is a straight A student and a great athlete. She wants to compete in the 2012 London Olympics. We hope she gets the chance to swim there.

Stretching legs for the next swim.Ready to go again.Driving home along the coast. We had just gone through Newport, where we used to live. It was a really pretty day for a drive.This one turned out really nice from a moving car.

Our trip to Eugene, October 17-18.

We borrowed Dad's truck and drove to Eugene to visit with family. This is the Willamette River and bridges on the way to Springfield where Barry's mother Carolyn lives. It was the first time that she got to see the babies.

Picture of me, taken by me.

The girls riding in the back seat chewing on their toys.

Daddy Barry... our trusty driver.

We passed by the Uof O and I got this picture. Go Ducks!!!

Brenna is being held by Barry's only grandmother, Margaret Voss. She is Carolyn's mother. Her birthday was the next day and she is now 89 years old. She is very strong and can get around pretty good. Her eyesight and hearing are pretty bad, but that is to be expected. She loved the little girls. Here is Chantrell and her great grandmother.
Chantrell is being held by her grandmom, Carolyn Inman, Barry's mom. She really enjoyed seeing her new grandchildren.
This is John Howard, Carolyn's boyfriend, who is holding their dog Scrapy. The dog is so cute and loves to play with his toys. He is a Dachsund, a hot dog doggie.The dog also loved to lick the babies on the face. We had to keep pulling him away. He just wanted to play and love on the babies. Barry wants to get one of those kinds of dogs. He says that they stay small and love to be held.See...he just wants attention. Brenna liked playing with his ears.
John is holding their cat, I forgot her name, and Scrappy. They get along pretty good.
Family portrait time. Four generations...great grandma, grandma, father and two daughters. Pretty cool.

This is a cute picture too. Both of the girls are looking at the camera.

Scrappy wanted to be in the picture too.

The girls are playing on the floor with toys. They can hold their heads up high and look at each other. They are starting to get up on their hands and knees and rock back and forth. Next, they will be crawling all around.This is the cute little shed in the backyard. It looks like an old fashioned barn.They also have plum, apple, and a type of nut tree (filbert). We came home with bags of apples and Barry made apple bread.John and Margaret are picking grapes from the vine. I forgot that grapes have seeds in them. I'm used to eating seedless grapes. John says that these kinds of grapes are good for wine making. I didn't like the taste of the grapes and they had too many seeds in them. Barry loved them and ate the seeds with the grape.Lots of apples are on the ground. We took most of the apples still in the tree. I would love to have a place of our own where we could grow fruits and vegetables. They taste so fresh and juicy when it comes right from nature.

Close up of Brenna and her mommy.Picture of the back deck and stairs.Another good family picture.Barry gets his sense of humor from his mom. They both like to tease people.They have a little pond with goldfish in it. We had a great visit at their place. Carolyn made us a terrific lunch and we watched some videos of the babies when they were first born. We can't wait to see everybody again.

Next, we went over to Rose and David Lee's house. We visited with Tony's girls, Whitney and Chelsey. Here is Whitney holding Brenna.This is Brianna, Sally's youngest daughter. A picture of Chelsey, their mom Debbie and Whitney. Debbie used to be married to Tony, Barry's younger brother.Pretty fall leaves on the ground in Eugene.This is the big tree that you can see from the living room at Rose and Dave's place. It is just starting to turn colors and lose its leaves.

Sunny day activities back in October.

We had an unusually warm day back in October. It was a Sunday and after church we came home to enjoy the weather outside. Rhiannon wanted to take the girls out for a photo shoot. She picked the outfits and helped me dress the babies. The neighbor kids came over to play too.

A very pretty Rhiannon holding Chantrell.

Look how silly they are together. Chantrell loves to play with her feet and put her toes in her mouth. Nan is doing it too. Justin is holding Chantrell.

Rhiannon holding Chantrell, Justin, and Maddie holding Brenna. The big kids were doing cartwheels and running around playing. I took some video clips of them and the video camera too. They liked to show off for the camera and acted so silly.

Maddie and Brenna.
The two babies sun bathing.

Another weekend we had good weather again. It was a beautiful sunny day but a lot colder. We decided to go to the park. I took the kids and the twins for a long walk. We made a little picnic and the kids loved it.

The babies are all bundled up for winter. Brenna called "shotgun" and got to ride in the front. Chantrell is sleeping in the back.

Look what Nan found in the grass.
It's a little garden snake.
"Here you go Racer...it's pretty squirmy!! Ahhhhhhh!! " said Racer.
"Ryder, it's your turn to hold the snake." "EWWWWWW. It feels so creepy." The three big kids kept trying to bring home caterpillars, snakes, crickets and anything else they could pick up. Rhiannon smelled her hand later and it smelled like poop. We all smelled our hands and they stunk so bad. The little snake must have crawled through poo and we all touched the snake. Even baby wipes couldn't get the smell out. When we got home, we all washed our hands and used hand sanitizer. I won't go picking up and playing with snakes again. Gross!!

Video clips of the girls.

The girls are about 4 1/2 months old in these videos.