A Day at the Beach

I love all of these kids, I love this beach. Dare I say, it really was one of those perfect days.

I hope my kids look back on their summer and think of all the laughter and fun we had (most of the time).

1Hr and 10Min from our house...

Is one of my favorite places. Neskowin

My new sun hat, or as I like to refer to it as my: "in my 30's, no forehead wrinkles hat"

Sad faces.....

So many rocks and logs and trinkets to play with. This is where their imaginations truly run wild.

Home made raft they made with floating drift wood.

Surfing:

The look of a successful trip:

Summer Time

Father's Day weekend at the coast.

Hiking it down to the sand for the sunset. June in the Summer time at the Oregon Coast calls for anything from winter coats to swim suits. We experienced both that weekend.

Avery is not in any of the pics from the first night. She had a pretty close call with the waves last time she was at the beach and had no desire to get close to them initially....

Sunset at about 8:45 at night:

Jake found one of the biggest agates I have ever seen. Just a little smaller than a golf ball. It's sitting on my desk now.

Surfers in Oceanside.

And the BEST part: Notice I am sitting, relaxing and enjoying the view. At that moment there was no place I would rather have been!

I took this picture to note my toes and position. I watched sitting in a chair as the kids and Brian worked away.....

The view from the cabin. There were a lot of para-gliders going off Maxwell Mountain above the cabin.

And lastly on our ride home, guess who is under her blanket.

And you can tell by the look on her face, her mood..... Brian and I laughed about that one for a good while, which only made her mood worse, but we didn't care.

After the dust cleared

After the dust cleared from Christmas wrapping paper.....and the skies were still blue, we decided to take a quick trip down to the newly remodeled beach cabin. We got down there in the afternoon and went straight down to the beach with the remaining sunlight hours.

The beauty of this place never disappoints. We've been going down there for 12 years and the smell of the salt air is just as comforting.


Three Rocks and the girls all bundled up:

You can see Jake in the background getting ready to catch the football. He is getting quite good, "you touch it, you catch it" is the motto.

This giant tree had moved in the surf when we went down the next morning. The power of the ocean is amazing.

Bri and the kids.

We walked through the tunnel to the other side. The tide was still pretty high and we had to run to the rocks to stay dry on a couple of occasions.

Jake and Grace

Avery is always such a comfort to Grace. This is our trek back up to the cabin.

A view from the front door. All the white in the picture is actually the ocean.

A view from the kitchen.

The girls in the loft watching a movie.

Notice the latter up to the loft. You didn't think we would actually be able to leave that place without someone falling did you??? And No it wasn't the two year old (she could actually maneuver the latter pretty darn well!), it was the six old! She was going down backward, with socks on, carrying her new DS... A recipe for disaster!!

And here is the goose egg to prove it:

We were just lucky she didn't break anything!!!

The renovations are just amazing! We are so grateful!