To celebrate Labor Day weekend, we decided to rent a beach house with Darrin's brother and his family. We packed up and left Friday afternoon and headed to Oceanside, OR. The beach house had plenty of room for everyone to sleep, a FABULOUS view, comfy beds, and a funny smell. After we arrived Friday, everyone got to make a little pizza for dinner.
Here's Josh with his pizza.
Saturday we got up and played on the beach. The weather was cool and a tad windy but no rain. Josh had a great time playing in the water...which kind of surprised us for two reasons. 1)In the past he's never really liked to play in the cold ocean water, and 2) For days leading up to the trip he kept asking if the sharks and crabs could see him when he was in the water. We reassured him that they were super far away and would not get him, and I guess that kept his fears under control.
Josh playing in the water.
Lukie took a nap while the kids played.
Andrew preferred to play in the sand and really didn't want anything to do with the water.
Saturday afternoon we drove into Tillamook to go to the Cheese Factory. This was our first time going there, and now it will definitely be a tradition when we are in the area. We got to taste cheese, see how they make and package the cheese, and have ice cream.
Andrew and Daddy eating ice cream.
Josh eating his plain chocolate ice cream...not just chocolate ice cream...PLAIN chocolate ice cream!
Saturday night we had a bonfire on the beach, which we had never done before. It was super windy and cold, but we had fun roasting marshmallows and making smores.
Daddy and Josh roasting marshmallows.
Andrew was freezing to death, and he was super tired. He mostly just sat on the blanket staring off into the fire.
This was the view from the beach house.
Sunday we got up and went to church, and then later that afternoon we went to a lighthouse. It was a small one, but still fun!
If you look you can see Darrin at the top of the lighthouse waving out the window.
After the lighthouse, we walked up another path to see what's called the octopus tree. It was pretty funky lookin'! Some how the coastal winds made the tree grow this way.
Andrew and Daddy by the octopus tree.
Monday Darrin took the kids to play on the beach one more time while I packed up all our stuff. We had such a fun time and will definitely do it again. Thanks to Chad and Julie for all the fun times!
3 comments:
So jealous!! You know I miss the coast!! Our friends beach house we used to stay in was in Pacific City....just South of that lighthouse. We went there a couple of times. So much fun!
Looks like a fun trip! What a great way to end the summer! Too bad we could never work out meeting there when we were in CA!
Someone I work with (he's in your ward) suggested I check out your blog, claiming that you look like my long lost sister. With your short haircut, the resemblance is actually pretty awesome. I knew I had a doppelganger out there somewhere - who knew we'd both be in Portland!
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