The Oregon Coast

We have come and gone on our fun summer trip to the Oregon Coast. Oregon is such a beautiful state and trust me, I know, we drove completely thru it! In total, we drove 26 hours and 1900 miles! The kids did great! I think they are all at good ages to drive that much (plus they are used to the Lake Powell drive). They had fun playing musical cars, between ours and my parents, playing they're DS, watching movies and of course, sleeping!!

Seaside, Oregon! The water is not swimming water but most of us braved it and at least put our feet in!! The kids could have played in the sand all day! They loved it!

Every morning, Steve and the kids would wake up and walk down to the beach (we were 3 houses away from the ocean! It was awesome!!) and collect sand dollars. We had quite the collection.

Caden

Halle

Carson

I have never spent the 4th of July anywhere but Kaysville! This year was a first. Seaside has a huge 4th of July celebration and gets all decked out!

We had so much fun having our firework celebration at the beach! It was a fun and different experience to do sparklers in the sand! We even had a campfire. They had a big fireworks show right on the beach! It was so crowded but so much fun.

We drove down to Tillamook, Oregon. This is where they make Tillamook cheese, the best cheese ever! We got to take a little tour of the factory and milk a plastic cow!!!

A great view from the Pacific Coast Highway! Grandma and Grandpa

The other kids were sleeping!

Cannon Beach and Haystack Rock. Just a little bit chilly

Dad, Mom, Steve, Caden, Craig and Chris all went out for a day of deep sea fishing! Caden and his first salmon!

They caught 12 salmon which we enjoyed for dinner the same night!

No life jacket! Ahhhh!!

Look at my poor baby! Little did all these fisherman know, they got sooo sick! 4 out of 6 of them (pictured) all puked over the side of the boat the whole time!! When they called to tell us, Heather and I were laughing so hard. These big boys who said they wouldn't get sick...well they did. I felt bad for Caden but it was quite funny picturing everyone else heaved over the boat!!

Thank heaven my mom was there! And not sick!

Just walking distance from our house was this cute little aquarium. The kids got to feed seals and have a hands on experience with some star fish and crabs. Halle was the first to hold everything! Her inner tomboy came out!!

We went and bought these huge, fresh crabs and had them for dinner! Yum~!

All in all it was a great trip with lots of fun new memories! The beach house was great, the beach was great and the company was great! What more can you ask for?