Five

It's hard to believe that this tiny guy turned five this month. They've been five great years!

We celebrated in a pretty low key way this year: birthday lunch out with his bestie, a ninja cake after dinner, and a few fun outings in the days surrounding. Mostly he just played with all his new Legos.

Silly boys

We went to see the Portland Pickles play. They're a collegiate woodbat baseball team and they played really well this evening, walloping the Sacramento Stealth 11-0. Our favorite part was Dillon, the pickle mascot.

"Look, Dad, Dillon signed my glove!"

We headed east for the Dufur Threshing Bee. Gotta love a tractor parade!

Back at home, we picked apples with the baby goats' help. Our young Jonathan apple tree gave us a nice basket-full, already canned away as applesauce.

 And then there are the sunflowers...my summer pride and joy!

Five is pretty great so far. Up next, kindergarten!