Fun night at the hotel

Instead of driving all the way home in one day, we stayed the night at a hotel with everyone. It was so much fun. I think it was a race to see who could change into their swimming suits first. We pretty much dropped of all of the luggage and swam for a couple hours. It was so much fun to have the pool all to ourselves.

Jason trying to blow up the swimming ring.

Abby in her goggles.

Juliette and Madi sharing the body board.

Tyler swam so much better while wearing this ring and the arm floaties. He didn't want anyone to hold him or help him. He was usually scared to swim at the Seaside pool by himself, but we couldn't use swimming devices there. He loved it. I think it's almost time for swimming lessons.

Abby is a really good swimmer.

Jason loved floating around in this tube. He loves to get wet and loves the water.

The girls again.

Cute family in the hot tub.

Good shots of me jumping off of the edge.

Time to go home.

Jason at breakfast.

Tyler at breakfast.

We had such a great time in Seaside. We didn't want to go home. We loved swimming everyday and we loved the condo. What a fun vacation we had with the family. It was so fun to go with everyone. Hopefully we can do it again.

Misc. and Cannon Beach

Now, don't laugh too hard at Cory and I in these body suits. They were worth the hassle to put them on. It was so cold in the ocean that we could only stay in there for 20 minutes, but with the body suits, we stayed in there for a few hours. They are Mom and Dad's suits, but we were able to squeeze into them for the day. I was laughing so hard putting it on. Mom had to help me and we almost didn't get it over my butt...but we did. Thanks for letting us use them to go body boarding.

This is the pool area. I think we spend more time in the hotel pools than in the ocean. The pools were so warm though. Tyler and Jason loved the kiddie pool. It was only like 2 feet deep so they could walk around it by themselves. I think they liked the freedom and independence of it. I really enjoyed the hot tubs. We kept getting in trouble though because we had Jason in there with us. All he wanted to do was sit in the hot tubs. The rules were you couldn't have children under 6 in there. We kept getting told the rules by various employees.

Another view of the sunset from our balcony. It was so gorgeous.

CANNON BEACH....

Cannon Beach was only a few minutes away so we decided to see what it was like there.

The sand was the same...ha ha...except that they had a little more seashells than ours.

Tyler just plopped down on the sand and rolled and rolled around.

Two cute lades in front of Haystack Rock.

Mom and Dad.

What in the world...Cory....!!!!

I like this picture of Dad a lot.

Jason had fallen asleep immediately so Cory laid down with him to make him more comfortable. I just love this sling.

Bridge, Astoria Column, and Washington

We drove only 20 miles away to Astoria. There we saw this ginormous bridge to Washington. I think we drove across it four times. We loved it. It is a couple miles long and is across the Columbia River.

I know we are nerds....here is our GPS showing us how long it is.

View from the bridge from on top of Astoria Column.

Astoria Column was fun as well. It is a round tower that has 200 stairs that go around it in a circle. Once you got to the top, you could throw off little wooden airplanes. I think Tyler loved that part.

We are climbing to the top.

It is a cool tower with murals painted on the outside.

One lesson we learned on this trip.....don't go to a restaurant only because it has a cool name. Ya....we did that.

The Imperial Schooner. They had noooo air conditioning and we were sweating. It was so hot in there. And, silly us ordered clam chowder. It was good, but not on a 100 degree day. HA HA!!

Our hotel was fabulous. It was so beautiful. We were able to sit on the balcony and just listen to the ocean. Cory and I would sit on it every night and talk while we listened and drank hot cocoa. It was so nice to have that time together when everyone else was asleep.

This is the view to the ocean from our balcony.

We were able to just walk from our hotel to the beach. It was wonderful.

Tyler loved it. When he first saw the ocean he just stared at it. I don't know what he was thinking. But it was fun to see him watch the ocean.

Building sand castles. The boys didn't really care for the ocean water too much (it was freezing), but they were perfectly content just playing in the sand. I think it was their favorite part of the trip.

Good thing we brought a lot of sand toys to share.

Jason burns really, really easily. We had found this swimming suit at Costco the week before. It has an SPF of 100. He didn't burn at all. I also thinks he looks like a little surfer dude. It was well worth the money.

We would also go downtown everyday for ice cream cones. I think they were $1.00 a piece or less than that. It was sooooo good.

Beautiful sunset off our balcony.

Trip to Seaside

We left bright and early on July 4th to Seaside, Oregon. We were a little worried about what we had gotten ourselves into when between the two boys, we had 3 throw-up incidents all on the drive there.

The boys are ready with all their toys for the drive.

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Tyler is cute and ready.

We stopped at Brian and Krista's house to see the twins. The boys stayed outside because they had thrown up. Tyler was pretty sad about not being able to see the babies. He looked at them from the window with these adorable eyes.

He did have fun playing outside on the deck with all the toys though.

We also stopped at a few waterfalls along the way.

I couldn't believe how cold it was. We were freezing.

Our last stop before Seaside was at Ikea. The kids at free that day. We also bought an awesome garbage can that we used to make sandcastles.