While at our house we showed them a few of the beautiful sights around us, including Ape Caves, which is at the base of Mt. St. Helens, and the gorgeous lakes at the base of the volcano. We also took them down to the beach house in Depoe Bay, one of our favorite places anywhere! It was a wonderful visit. They kids all got along like best friends and we loved hanging out with their family. We love to have company!
Posing outside our house, Paij, Sydney, Aubrey, and Bailey.
Joseph and Carson were great buddies.
The beautiful Oregon Coast.
These are heaven on earth . . . . Hood strawberries, which happened to be available the week we drove down to the beach. We bought a flat at a roadside berry stand and the kids ate almost the entire flat by the time we arrived at the beach house!
Brandon and I found a favorite spot at the top of tall outcropping of volcanic rock on Fogarty Beach. We sat for a long time, watching the waves crash and talking about how life is going to change now that he is headed off to college.
Logan found a starfish in one of the tidepools.
Bailey and Paij at Fogarty Creek Beach.
Dan and I standing in a little cave, hollowed out by water and wind.
Joseph spent a long time "conducting the waves." He would bring his arms down dramatically and command the waves to crash. He said he was trying to be like Mickey on Fantasia.
The girls at the beach.
Rich and Lindsey. Rich took most of the pictures on this blog posting. He had just gotten a new camera, and took some great pictures during the trip!
On Sunday afternoon after church we drove to downtown Newport and walked along the waterfront. We stopped at an area where the sea lions congregate and watched them for awhile. They are noisy creatures!
Even though the water is freezing, the kids splashed around in it several times.
Brandon drawing in the sand, just before injuring his foot by picking what he thought was a beach ball (look closely in the right side of the picture above). It was actually a buoy, and very heavy and hard. He hyperextended and jammed his big toe. We thought he had broken bones because he was in so much pain, but he improved quickly over the next few days.
The path to the "secret beach" is pretty precarious (which is what makes it so private), so Dan and Rich had to help Brandon hop up the cliff, down the hill, through the brush and the pebble beach, and to the walking paths in Little Whale Cove, where we had borrowed a wheelchair to push him back to the beach house.
Rich and Lindsey carried their stroller up and down the steep path to secret beach so they would have a place to strap the babies while everyone played.
After returning from the beach we took Rich and Lindsey and family to see the south side of Mt. St.Helens, which is breathtakingly beautiful. We walked through the Ape Caves, which are underground lava tube caves.
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Wow, what great pictures! I wish I could hire Rich to take pictures of our family!
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