The Pumpkin Patch!

This weekend we went to Rasmussen Farm to pick out our pumpkins for Halloween. This place is about 6 miles out of town and is on one of our favorite cycling routes on the east side of the Hood River Valley. We met up with a group of Camden's (and our) friends but Cam spent most of the day with his "girlfriend".

Here are a couple shots of them both:

"Follow me!"

Already a little gentleman!

Although, I think he is already learning how women can go from all smiles.......to snarls in an instant! (just kidding - geez, stop snarling!)
Most of the day was spent keeping Camden from trying to play soccer with the pumpkins or throwing the ones he could pick up!!

This place really is beautiful. Camden and and his little buddy tried to run off together at one point and sprinted down the road - but check out the scenery here!

Views in every direction. This is a shot of me pulling the kids in the wagon - check out Mt. Adams in the background with new snow covering it.

This is looking the other direction at Mt. Hood:

Camden showing that he can beat mommy in a race to find pumpkins

Overall, another adventure for the Moody's!

Bye, for now!!!

Aunt Serena came to visit!!

Camden's Aunt Serena came to visit us this summer from her world travels playing softball. She played with the Italian national team and then with Greece where she pitched and homered to win the championship!!!

Here is Serena and Grandpa on a trip we did to Mt. St. Helens:

Check out our pitcher. He takes this very serious! "I don't think you can hit my fastball daddy"

Especially when I hid the spitball behind the glove!

The wind up! (Notice the concentration and serious look - you know it's gonna be a strike)

And here comes the heat Daddy!!

Under the master coaching guru's watchful eye. How's his form grandpa??

"Thanks for the swinging tips grandpa!"

Seriously though - check out the throwing form on our 2 year old. He's freakishly good at sports!!! (must get it from his mom)

Beach time from July

So, we have too many cameras. I just found these pictures from the first week of August when we had a play date at the beach on the Columbia River. We can walk here from our house and spent many hot days down here this summer that have resulted in our son being quite the water boy!!! He swims laps in the bathtub under water and loves going to the pool. Here are a couple shots from the beach:

Splash Time!!

Getting deeper! Need to get to my Dolphin!
Check out the stroke before he dives under (pay no attention to the man holding the belly!) Surfer boy "Hi Mom. I'm kayaking!"
Beach body stud!

A couple quick updates!

So, I had another business trip last week - this time to Vegas. Not a bad time to go as InterBike was going on at the same time as the tradeshow I went there for. Our last day in town, we decided to get off the strip and went climbing in Red Rocks! We did a multi-pitch climb and my buddy Ryan did all the work leading every climb and I just cleaned up on my way up - being top-roped!! It was a great morning but as it got later in the day it got hot as hell. I only made about 1/2 of the last pitch and bailed out as the rock was almost too hot to touch!!

This is me coming up one of the easier lower pitches!

These next 2 are of Ryan on the last pitch of the day. Notice how the rock is almost a black color - when its 100 degrees in the sun, that stuff is hot!!



Camden and I have had a bunch of time to play since I got back. I had to spoil him and get some more train pieces! He could sit and play with his train set all day if given the chance!
This weekend was "Hops Fest" in Hood river and also marked our first real, rainy days since we moved. It's cool to see that a soaking rain does not keep this town from drinking BEER!!!! Oh, how it is living in the micro-brew capital of the world!!!! The other cool thing I found out this weekend is that a soaking rain does not deter the mountain biking. I did a great 3 hr ride on the WA side of the Gorge on Sunday and the trails were in great shape!!! Wet roots made it interesting but we had a great, long climb, a bit of technical decent, followed by a ripping fast downhill! Riding Year 'Round!!!!!!

A shot from Hops Fest:

This is a blurry shot of Camden and his girlfriend - Mayla. The phone doesn't do action shots well:
Camden and I went to the Discovery Center and Museum the other day. Here he is exploring the Columbia River with Lewis and Clark!!

He has been a popular boy these days with "Play Group" every weekend and it seems like we are going to birthday parties every other weekend. This is such a great place to raise kids and there are soooo many his age. Everyone we meet our age has a kid or two around Cams age and they live here to play outdoors like us!!!

CUPCAKE FACE!!

STILL TIME TO KICK BACK WITH A SNACK AND RELAX!!