We spent the 4th of July weekend in Sunriver, its becoming a little bit of an Elia Family tradition. Jared loves the Pet Parade they have every year (people dress up their dogs, cats, ponies, horses, rabbits and goats or at least decorate a wagon and pull them in it). After the parade every one moves down to Drake Park and there is live music, arts and crafts booths, clothes, jewelry and food booths as well. This year Jim and Kathie came with us as well as Lynda, Todd and Terri Zenger. It was fun times. The highlight every year of course is at 10pm, there is this big cinder cone in the middle of Bend and they do a huge firework show from the very top so that you can see the fireworks basically from any point in Bend, and probably further away than that.
We go to this spot on the Deschutes river every time we're in Sunriver with Jared so he can feed the ducks and throw rocks in the water. This kid would throw a dump truck worth of rocks in the water if you let him!
Jim has had this cedar log swing in the garage at Sunriver for at least 10 years he said, we finally put it together on this trip. It is really nice and Jared loved swinging on it.
Jared's most recent battle scar, he jumped from a concrete pad that a big electrical box sits on onto the sidewalk and as you can see he didn't keep his balance. If you could see any closer you could see the distinct lines of the sidewalk in his scab. It looked like a mini version of a Ruffle potato chip.
