OMSI & Cup Stacks

Our friends Ruth and Donald have recently moved to the Portland area.  We are so glad to have them move closer to us.  We enjoy spending time with them and both their kids and our kids have a lot of fun playing together.  A couple of weeks ago, Ruth joined us for an outing to OMSI.  We hadn't been there for a while.  The older kids were in school, so it was just Simon and Ruth's two youngest kids, Ethan and Tyler.  The kids had fun playing in the sand and water and other various things.  We really like going to OMSI!

Simon & Tyler

Ethan

Simon goes shopping, a boy after my own heart.

Tyler

Ethan

 

 

A few days later, Daniel was competing in a Cup Stack competition at his school.  He had to qualify a few days before, which he did.  They compete by grade, and the winner of each grade gets a trophy and the second place winner gets a medal.  Also, there is a trophy for the fastest person in the school.  Daniel thought maybe he had a chance for second place, but was pleasantly surprised when he walked away with the trophy for his class.  He was super excited.  We were so proud of him!

Warming up

Competing

 

The winners

Daniel and his trophy