Vacation days 3 & 4

Sunday July 25th
Elizabeth got us up nice and early for our first full day on the Oregon Coast...I guess she knew there would be lots to do and see! We decided to head North up the Coast, our first stop was the Sea Lion Caves, that Elizabeth may not have fully appreciated but I thought was way cool! They even had a viewpoint area to look out at the Heceta Head Lighthouse! After taking in all there was to see there we headed off to the Heceta Head Lighthouse to see it up close! Elizabeth took a little catnap while I pushed her up the sorta gravel walk up to the lighthouse luckily she woke up for the tour which was really cool. When we got back down we had lunch at the picnic tables there then went and played on the beach and in the water that was so so soooo cold!!! From there we drove to Cape Perpetua Visitors Center and loved the views and information and exhibits there. One of the Rangers there gave us a couple "must see" places and so we headed off to one called "Devil's Churn" and for good reason! The water came crashing into this little area with some amazing force! I have not words to describe how very awesome and moving it was Tony and I just couldn't get enough it was amazing!! And with that we headed back to the RV to call it a day!

Monday July 26th
We started this day off by stopping off at the other place the Ranger told us about called Cape Perpetua Viewpoint, and the view was well worth the stop! It was beyond amazing! It was also foggy which gave the morning kinda a cool eerie feeling. Then we continued North bound to Newport where we visited the Aquarium that Elizabeth of course absolutely LOVED!! I think her favorite part was the Sea lions that swam right in front of her, she was laughing so hard! Oh and definitely the little play area with the animals she could climb on she loved that! After we had had our fill of the aquarium we decided to head to a near by beach in the old town party of Newport for some lunch, but when we got to the area there was not a picnic table to be found! So we drove around the little town for about 30 minutes looking for a park or somewhere to pull our lunch out but there wasn't anything of the sort so before it became dinner time we found this little restaurant called Challet Pie House. The food there was so good! And we discovered Elizabeth is a berry junky! Her kids meal came with blueberries, marianberries, and raspberries and she couldn't get enough of them we ended up ordering her another bowl!! And my dad ordered a cob salad and was amazed at how big the thing was! He also came out of there with a huge chocolate cake! Well worth the stop! And then with tummies very full we headed back to the RV.

Oregon Vacation First Two Days

So I've been meaning to post about our best vacation yet but as there were literally hundreds of pictures to go through it's taken me a bit and I decided the best way was to just post about a couple days at a time so here's the first two days:

Friday July 23th
We got up at the forsaken time of like 6am, as too get on the road early as we had a long way to go that day, we were hoping that Elizabeth would just go back to sleep and sleep til we got to our first rest stop but no such luck as I was carrying her to the motorhome she heard a dog bark and said "doggie...woof woof" and she was awake. We drove for about 3 hours and stopped just inside Idaho for a potty break and to grab some breakfast as we got on the road again for another 2 hours, then we stopped in Meridian ID for gas and some lunch at an awesome park they have there that Elizabeth could not get enough of!! Then we were once again on the road, we stopped every couple hours or so to get out and stretch and go potty we ended up driving a good five more hours(with stops) before we reached our place to sleep for the night it was called Eagle Hot Lake in Le Grand. They had to best pool ever!!!! It was such a nice warm temperature!! Elizabeth showed off her swimming skills to G-ma and G-pa for a while after they got her ice cream and we called it a day!

Saturday July 24th
We once again got up and the far too early time of 6am to get another good start on another full day of driving. We drove for a couple hours then stopped for breakfast and such then drove for about another hour or so and stopped at The Columbia Gorge Discovery Center in The Dalles. It was a pretty cool place! And we had a good time walking through it. We didn't stay too long as we had a long way to go again so we loaded up and were off to our next stop which was Multnomah Falls, this was the most tense part of the the entire trip! My dad went on a scenic byway that too you to a parking lot for the falls, but it definately was not intended for 50 foot long motorhomes!! It was barely equipped for two cars! It was NARROW and windy...but we made it through, barely and pulled off at a view point of the Columbia River for lunch and to get our breathing back to a normal pace ;) We arrived at Heceta Beach RV Park in Florence OR after 12 hours 8 of which we spent driving!! We were all so impressed with how well Elizabeth did I honestly thought she'd be much worse than she was! But we were so happy to have that part behind us! Enjoy the pics!

Family Pics

We had our family pictures taken the beginning of June and I just realized I never posted them! We had Sarah Hatch do them for us again and we are just thrilled with her talent and I think after seeing these pictures you will be too! We did them at Gardener Village in the afternoon and they turned out just great! Enjoy!!

4th Anniversary!

Well yesterday was our Anniversary, and it's been a fantastic four years! I talked Tony into taking the day off, and we were going to play at the pool all day, but the fates were against that, first off the weather didn't cooperate at all, and to boot Elizabeth woke up with a horrible looking rash completely covering her entire upper body, so we had to take her to the doctor in the afternoon, turns out she has a viral infection which is pretty contagious to younger children so she's back on house arrest for the the next 5-7 days or until the rash is gone. This totally ruined our plans to have our neighbor with a little boy watch her while we went to dinner...luckily we have lots of great neighbors and we found someone else to come play with her. Tony and I went to Cracker Barrel(Mmmmmmmm), and so enjoyed our time without our lovely Lizabeth's drama, not to mention screaming. When we put Lizabeth to bed we watched Valentine's Day and called it a wonderful day! I'm so very blessed to have such an amazingly wonderful husband! We look brightly on to eternity!! It wasn't anything fancy but it was still a great day to celebrate!

Since I didn't have to have surgery today I'll be working on getting our Oregon Coast trip posted with tons of fun pics!!