This year did not disappoint. We woke up at the wonderful time of 9am and casually got everyone ready for what is becoming a tradition for us, a bike ride. Thankfully, Grace recently learned to ride without training wheels, so what better way to really give her some practice?
We decided to drive up to Stub Stewart State Park and ride the Banks-Vernonia Trail all the way down to Banks. We packed a picnic lunch and set off. It was a down hill ride for the majority of the way. The kids were champs and tried their best to ride fast. Grace got tired out pretty quickly, but she did really good overall. Especially considering that we went 10 miles, and she did just barely learn to ride. We ate our lunch at a nice picnic table area in Manning, and then finished up our ride. It was really fun! Afterwards we had time to head home for a nap and some relaxation before the evening festivities.
We headed over to Chris's brother's house for a family BBQ. All the food was delicious! We had a great time just chatting and enjoying the sunshine in the yard. Eventually, we set off a few of our fireworks including the sparklers. It's always a little scary being the parent around those darn sparklers. Neil especially, just isn't afraid enough of fire. He just loves it so much. At least this year he would listen to us when we told him to back up. He wanted to be the one to light everything. I'm going to have to watch out for this kid.
It was pretty windy that night, so we opted to forego most of our small stuff, and head downtown Portland to watch the big firework show. We were able to get access to the roof of one of the buildings on the east side. It was fun to be up so high and to see fireworks going off all over the city. It ended up being a really late night since the show didn't end up starting until 10:40, and traffic to get home was horrendous. The girls and I really enjoyed it though. It was the perfect end to our day!
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