Collision

Not much to report on this week except for the new accessory that Elsa is wearing.
Wednesday afternoon Elsa was out playing with Myles.
She came in frantic and crying. All I could get out of her was that Myles had kicked her.
After trying to get her cleaned up a bit we assessed that she did not have any deep cuts.
We tried to understand Myles's side of the story with hand gestures and all. We think what happened is that they both were running, not realizing that at some point they would be running into each other. Myles faired much better than Elsa, recieving no wounds. Elsa ended up hitting the pavement. She actually looked better when it first happened. He walked her to the door, but had not realized how bad she was. After getting his story I told him that she was bleeding. He immediately slipped off his shoes to come in and check on her. Lots of ice and rocking with daddy helped soothe her.
The next day she could not even open her eye. It was swollen shut. By Friday the scab was starting to form, and the swelling had gone down some...............she could at least open her eye.
Now she is just wearing a nice scab.
All in all my little on took it like a trooper.

 

Last Day of Our Trip

 Before we left Seaside we braved the wind and rain from the car to their little mall, which consisted of 10 stores. We had fun in the hat store. Rhaevyn came away with a cute brown crocheted headband. The kids also rode the carousel.
Then it was off to Astoria for the final leg of our journey.

 

 

 We went to the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria.
It was very interesting and informative. I didn't realize how many ships had been sunk around that area. It is pretty treacherous where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean Here are a few pictures from the museum. We didn't get to go on the boat because the weather was so awful, but we saved our tickets so we can go back another time and still get to tour it.
We had such a fun time on our little vacation, and the kids can't wait to go again.

Mini Vacation Day #2

  After leaving Lincoln City, Oregon, we headed up to Tillamook.
We visited the cheese factory..............we love Tillamook cheese and ice cream!
What luck; it was customer appreciation day so we got free mini cones with a choice of two of their newest flavors. After touring the factory and tasting several flavors of cheeses we treated ourselves to
ice cream cones.

 It's cheese, Gromit!!

 Aeva had The "Tillamook Mudslide"

 Chris got the Marionberrry Pie..............always a good choice.

 Myles made me laugh because of all the flavors he could choose.........it was vanilla.

It made me smile because it was kind of like having Ben on our trip with us :)

 Rhaevyn and I actually got the same flavor........................Caramel Heath Crunch.

 And Elsa had Oregon Strawberry.

 

 Now that our bellies were full of yummy ice cream it was time for our next destination......Seaside.
The rain was something else on our way there, but it stopped long enough for us to have a nice stroll along the beach.

The kids had a blast running from the tide and collecting seashells.

 

 By the time we were off the beach Elsa realized she had lost most of the shells she had found.
Poor thing did not realize she was dropping them one by one as she walked.
We almost made it on the news except they panned the camera in the opposite direction.
The storm we had was left over from a Typhoon.

 

By the time got back to our hotel from the beach the rain was really coming down. We hunkered down in our room and ate burritos that I had packed (with the fixings). Then the kids had some swim time. After showers it was time for hot cocoa and popcorn.  The hotel we stayed at had free movie rentals. The kids had their own room again with a tv and dvd player. So they got to watch their movie, and Chris got to watch the movie he picked out while I promptly fell asleep.

Day 1 of Our Mini Vacation

 The kids completed their first 12 weeks of school, so we took one week off
to let them have a brief break, and at the end of that week we took them to the
Oregon Coast for a few days.
Our fist day we drove to Newport, Oregon.
There we went to a lighthouse museum and to Cobble Beach.
It is so named because of the plethera of cobbles...............
lava that went into the ocean, got tumbled about and now cover the shoreline of this beach.
They are black round stones. It makes it very hard to walk along the beach.
There were tons of flies, and we learned that there was a better beach with another lighthouse to see
a bit farther south. Well we know for next time the place to go.

I took this pictures because I love the color perwinkle.

Who knew they were  actual little creatures?

 

 Caught some sea lions sun bathing.

 

 Myles found a caterpillar and couldn't pass him up.

 

After trying to quickly consume our picnic lunch while swatting away flies,

we drove down to the Newport Aquarium. Chris really wanted to see this place. We had a great time getting up close to the exhibits.

 

 

 

 

 This sea anemone was really neat. The kids and Chris enjoyed letting it give their
fingers a hug.

 The shark tunnel was very cool. Myles loved all the sharks he was able to spot.

 After spending the day in Newport we drove up to Lincoln City.
On our way there was stopped at The Sea Hag and had dinner.
They had the best clam chowder bowl.
The kids spent time in the pool and then had hot chocolate and popcorn
in their own room with their own tv watching Lego cartoons.

 

 

  All in all we had a pretty good day with beautiful weather.
We were ready to get some sleep and head out to Tillamook and Seaside the next day.

Baby

So, here is the most recent picture of our little one.
You can see she has her hand on her forehead.
And during the ultrasound when the doctor came in to have a look, she said "Wow, this baby has a lot of hair!" Then she pointed it out on the screen..............it was amazing!