Oh Yeah, were finally at the BEACH!!!

The beaches in Sea Side were fun, packed with little kids flying kits and swinging. It was a long walk from the sidewalk to the actual water, maybe a half mile.

The weather was horrible 50 degrees with a constant See Mist. We didn't spend too much time at the beach because of it.

Wow my toes were numb :O)

Doesn't it look chilly!

Doug is a brave little man. He laughed so hard when the frigged waves crashed on his legs.

Just imagine... he made it to the Atlantic before the Pacific.

The next day was as clear as it could be, still a little chilly.

The hotels at Cannon Beach set up these cute wind breakers and umbrellas for anyone to use.

Relaxed!!!

I needed to take off those shoes, not so relaxing.

Dancing in the water

Haystack Rock

Probably my favorite picture

Those are some cute feet.

Different landscape of Oregon

It was the coolest thing having dense forests on one side of the road and the ocean on the other.

I love these orange flowers!

One day I'll have some of these pretty's in my yard :O)

the flowers were so big and vibrant

Cannon beach
This is just down from Hay Stack Rock

This is where we watched a momma and baby whale play for about 30 minutes.

These little plants grow all over the rough rocks.

Can you see the Star Fish??? I couldn't either. Poor little guy, I only noticed him because I stepped on him. I felt so bad

We were driving in a beautiful Dense forest and all the sudden there is a sign that says, "watch for drifting sand." I just thought we were back to the ocean and beaches. Not by a long shot these are the sand dunes we drove through.

Lighthouses

This is the first lighthouse we saw it is called Yaquina Head

You'd better plug your nose though... if the wind is blowing your direction it is stinky!!!!

This is Haceta Head Lighthouse.

The Coast Gard sold the keepers house for only $10 dollars when they were done with it.

WOW what a bargain!

What a beautiful retreat, the keepers house is now an Inn for all of you folks who are gonna go.

This is the view from the front door, absolutely beautiful.

Yaquina Bay lighthouse was really quaint and hidden in the trees, so they built Yaquina Head to take it's place.

A is for...

Doug took me on a wonderful trip to Oregon for our 5th Anniversary! It was so nice to drive along the coast with no worries in the world and just have a darn toot’n good ol’ time! I’ll post more about it later.

As we were driving through Idaho board out of our minds… we couldn’t wait to see blue water… I made up a game on the spot, I called it the Alphabet game and it goes a little like this: A is for… ALFALFA! It could be anything as long as you could really see it, at that moment. We divided it up like so, every other letter was yours. Easy peasy lemon squeezy!

“Doug it’s your turn!”

A is for Alfalfa
B is for Boise
C is for Car
D is for Diesel
E is for Eden
F is for Field
G is for Green Shed
H is for House
I is for Interstate 84
J is for Jeep
K is for Kimberly Falls
L is for Lodging Camp
M is for Motel
N is for Nothing
O is for One (178 miles to go)
P is for Planetarium
Q is for Quiet (Doug turned off the music)
R is for Red Lion Hotel
S is for Shari’s Restaurant
T is for Toyota Tacoma
U is for Udders (passing Dairy Farm)
V is for Veering into other lain (we weren’t tiered at all :O)
W is for Western Stockman
X is for RXR (Rail Road X-ing sign)
Y is for Yellow Line
Z is for Ziggies

It filled about an hour of the drive and like always, the really creative ones were Doug… U is for Udders… Who thinks out of the box like that, When I see a Cow, I think COW.

He really makes me laugh!

Night at the Park

Colby absolutely loves the park!

This whirly gig is a blast to play on. Mom would laugh and laugh till her tummy hurt :O)

Colby was rolling in the sand and got it all over in his fur but mostly in his eyes. Mom was protecting him from me.

Dad and Michelle enjoying the park from the bench. it was pretty hot.

Check out that tongue action going on.

Alex and Stina playing on the bridge

Doug was the dog watcher, he had 3 at all times

Syrus didn't get this bridge at all, He kept falling through trying to get to Doug, and of coarse Doug kept prodding him on :O)

Raspberry Picking

About 2 weeks ago we headed out to my friends grandmothers home to pick Raspberries in her fabulous patch that's at least 27x25, and the raspberries ripen about every 2 days.

Doug, Myself and Shannon picked for about 3 hours in the warm shade, surrounded by birds chirping and lot's of fun chatter. It is one of the most beautiful gardens I have ever been in.

We got 3 little pails completely full,

even though I was stuffing my mouth every chance I got,

we ended up with 13 regular sized cereal bowls full. Now it’s time to make some tasty jelly. Thanks to Shannon and her Grandparents for inviting us over!!!

Smile for the camera... This is Shannon standing in front of her grandma's home.

Her Great Grandfather built it from the ground up and her grandma has lived there her whole life. Such a beautiful plot of landscape and the garden is amazing!

This is a picture of the actual raspberry patch.

Don't they just look so tasty hanging on the branch!?!

Doug had a great time listening to Shannon and Myself chat for the LONG 3 hours :O)

Check out that tub of berries

Check out how tall the bushes are and they are so dense.

This is the final product. We got 3 pails full just like this one. When we got home it ended up being 13 cereal bowls completely full. Now it's time to make freezer jam.

Draper Parade

We had a blast 2 weekend ago with Krystal and Jake in town, so much to do and so little time to do it in. They were here for Jakes side of the family so we were sitt’n the kids for a couple hours on Thursday night. We went to Day Break Park for the evening and it was a blast! They have a great playground with a crazy jungle gym, lots of swings and an awesome slide. The kids made so many friends and didn’t want to go even though we had been there for hours.

Tanner and Ceterra (Doug’s nice and nephew) were both in the Draper parade bright and early Saturday morning.

Ceterra is with her Dance group

Tanner with Karate

Krystal called me when we were about 10 minutes from the house and said, everyone is still sleeping we will make it later if they wake up in time. Now that was crazy to both of us cause those kids are always up by 6 am and it was almost 8:45. The parade was great it started at 9 and was over by 11:30, due to the over whelming amount of entries we stopped counting after 93. I know you were going to loose sleep over this also so I’ll just let you know, we still got a ton of candy even though we didn’t have any kids sitting with us.

Doug and his little sista Lisa

Crystal and Lily at her first parade

Doug and Me having a grand ol' time

Then the race began… we were off from the parade to get home. It was time for a BBQ & slip-n-slide party. It was a ‘Splash’ of a time. Almost everyone took a ride on the slide and the food was great.

Christina Playing with Syrus (I know you can't see him in this picture)

Mom doing a puzzle

Mercedes having a blast

Alex going on the Slip-N-Slide

Jake eating with his girls

We all headed to Inception later that night. if you’re planning on going, put on your thinking cap cause it’s pretty ‘deep’. Probably one of the best movies we’ve seen since The Longest Yard.