Fall & Family: Our Weekend in Oregon

Happy Friday friends! 

This past weekend, we went to Oregon for a quick visit and had a wonderful time. One of the nice parts about being in Tahoe is that Portland is only a short hour flight away so it makes it easy to go see Cam's family for a long weekend. The reason for this particular visit was two-fold--1. To celebrate Cameron's 26th birthday and 2. To see our new niece and nephew! Two of my sister-in-laws recently had babies and it was so great to be able to meet these new members of our family for the first time. We ate lots of good food, visited two pumpkin patches, and just enjoyed the time of everyone being together...all in all, a fabulous fall weekend! Here are some of my favorite photos from the trip: 

Cam and his parents on the morning of his birthday...this was the first time he had been home for his birthday in seven years!

We spent the day in Portland and had breakfast at the popular spot, Pine State Biscuits...note the requisite hipsters congregating out front. I'd highly recommend it if you're in Portland!

Birthday boy doing some shopping in the rain

Uncle Cam meeting his new niece for the first time!

Beautiful baby girl Selah Anna Liese

So sweet

Don't mind my abnormally large forehead...ha.

Uncle Cam and big sister Meara

Cam's mom's famous four layer chocolate cake that Cam always requests for his birthday

Make a wish!

Cake time

Cam opening his gift from his parents

Part of the family on Cam's birthday

Later on in the night Cameron got to meet his new nephew, Rylan Michael!

Cousins meeting for the first time...so cute!

Saturday we spent the day at the pumpkin patch...it was a little overcast, but it didn't rain!

There is nothing better than a freshly made donut

Alexa having fun on the slide

Cam picking out the perfect pumpkin

The pumpkin patch requires lots of photos...

Cam taking a walk on the nature trail

For the second half of the day, we went to a different pumpkin patch and they had these really intense pumpkin cannons...it was amazing how far they could launch the pumpkins!

Miss Meara and I riding the firetruck

Holding baby Selah, she did so well considering she was less than a week old!

Meara and Grandpa

Ha.

We took a hay ride out to pick pumpkins at sunset and it was so beautiful!

Nieces in their fairy wings hunting for the perfect pumpkin

It's hard to get a picture of these two because they are constantly moving!

Examining some Indian corn

Clearly they are over the pictures...ha.

Love.

Gorgeous sunset

I don't know how Cam got one pumpkin and I got both girls!

Love these two...and glad I've been working out so I could actually lift them!

Hay ride!

Thought bubble over Cam's head: We are waiting another three years to have a kid...ha!

Such troopers for spending the day at the pumpkin patch with a brand-new baby!

This is the closest I could get to everyone looking at the camera...

The whole family squeezed in for a picture...love this :)

This is my favorite picture from the trip...Alexa cracks me up :)

Grandparents, new babies, and the wiggleworms

It was so much fun to spend time with our nieces who are growing like weeds as well as seeing the sweet new babies, and we're looking forward to making another visit to Oregon next month. Have a great weekend everyone! 

PS: I posted some additional pictures from the trip on Instagram, follow me here.