Father's Day and Kaylee's last day of second grade

As some of you may know, Kaylee's last day of school was supposed to be last Wednesday, but no, we had to get a FREAK SNOW STORM. So, Kaylee had to make up a few days because of it. So, today was Kaylee's last day of second grade. It has been a great experience this year, because she got to ride the bus all year long. That will changed, due to budget cuts. She won't get to ride the bus until middle school. She had "Camp Fox Rocks" all of last week, where they had a day camp for all second and third graders inside their classes. Trina and I send letters to Kaylee during the week. Kaylee reads so well and she is excellent in math and science. Congratulations Kaylee on completing the second grade.

Speaking of school, Sam has been put on a list for a preschool in Washougal. She missed the cutoff day by 16 days to start kindergarten this year. The school is at a church which is located across the street of where we lived for a year before moving up on Prune Hill. Washougal School district is a little sketchy. So we decided, with the help of Trina's mom finding this place up here, to enroll the kids in Camas School District. The reason behind it was due to the fact that Camas, WA was rated in the top 100 best places to live in the U.S. by Time Magazine and Camas School District was rated one of the top 10 best school districts by Newsweek back in the late 90's.

On Saturday, Kaylee, and other daughters, had a breakfast at our church for the Fathers for Father's Day. We had to write down three things that we liked to do as a hobby as well as Kaylee. We had to guess what they were. It was great. I have great daughters and a wife that I love and appreciate everyday. They also gave me two shirts. I needed more shirts and love them.

A week from today, my grandma, aunt and her kids are coming. It's going to be great. Apparently, we have tickets to go on the Portland Spirit. It is a ship that goes up and down the Willamette. You see the Waterfront and all of Downtown Portland, including the West Hills, OHSU, PGE Park, and to the East you can see Mt. Hood and St. Helens, The Columbia River Gorge, etc. It's a two hour ride, including lunch. We are going to the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon and from there we are going to Mo's at Cannon Beach (where we frequent very often), where you can see "Haystack Rock that sits right on the ocean, about a couple of hundred feet off shore. Haystack Rock can be seen in the opening scene of The Goonies, (Also one of my favorite 80's movies) when the Fratellis are fleeing from the police and then enter a ORV (SUV) race on the beach. It can be seen in the background. Later in the film you can see Haystack Rock again when Mikey is pointing out some rocks in the distance, with the doubloon." Cannon Beach and Tillamook is only about an hour and half drive from our place. We will probably do the Portland Zoo as well, and maybe Multnomah Falls or even Beacon Rock, which is up the Gorge. This will be a good visit and I will post pictures after the visit.