portland

im getting behind on posting...sorry...we'll have to play catch-up.

so, weekend before last, dave and i went to portland to spend some time with the young family. paul young is a friend of ours and he wrote the book The Shack. if you havent read it, im sure youve at least heard about it...either way, you should read it. paul is great and they have an amazing (and huge) family.

they just moved into a new house (picture above is the view from their backyard of mt. hood.) they had a big party last weekend celebrating 2 birthdays (lexi and matthew, the 2 youngest of 6 kids) and the new house. dave and matt wertz played a few songs, we ate, swam, played games, and hung out. we had a blast getting to know everyone. they welcomed us like part of the family...

dave has this new app on his phone where it takes 4 pictures back-to-back...we were playing bocce ball as the sun set, so you can see both :)

here we have most of the crew- abby and justin on the left, matthew, amy, tyler, me, then lexi, and nicco

amy and i rockin it in the hot tub...she was our hostess for the weekend, and a fanstastic one at that :)

this is us with paul before we took off back home-