Okay I have to make this post quick! I’m so behind!

In mid-July we went on our annual family get-together with my mom’s side of the family, this time to Sunriver, Oregon. We had so much fun staying in a big house with everyone! We did biking and hiking (in caves and on mountains), swimming, river floating, brewery touring, board game playing… Ari joined us for some adventures but we also had his grandparents to watch him a lot so we did some things without him too.

It was a beautiful drive! We did it at sunset on the way down and sunrise on the way back! This picture was taken on the way down:

Ari learned that he loves watermelon! He ate a LOT of food in general and showed us that he can stab things with a fork pretty well, too!

Here his great grandma is reading to him:

At the very cool High Desert Museum he got to touch a snake and a tortoise! Here he is viewing some historical dioramas:

We hiked around this crater:

Here he is with his grandpa pushing around his great grandma’s walker – he did a lot of that:

And…rafting!

When we got back, we had some more river time at Thousand Acres Park!

Followed by pizza at the Northeast location of Hopworks:

Ari had fun having his 13-month picture taken. He loves attacking and biting his bear and elephant! The bear was A.’s as a baby, and he says that he used to love biting its nose, too!