happy birthday paige part 2

grandpa and grandma williamson and grandpa and grandma lowry joined us for a family birthday for paige.

coop was more than willing to help with entertainment.

 after the party, he was in the mood for swimming:)

happy birthday paige #11

happy birthday to one of the sweetest little ladies i know.  i love to buy her presents because she gets so excited when she opens them.  

birthday breakfast

we invited a few friends over for a little party.

happy birthday paige:)

oregon coast 2013

family vacation summer 2013.  we loved driving to the oregon coast and spending a week with my extended family. we had so many pictures of this trip, i had to print out a book for just the week long trip.  here are some of our highlights.

hood river, oregon.  this was the amazing view we had from our hotel.  the beautiful columbia river, and washington on the other side.

after a full day of driving to hood river, we took the kids to the river to play.  there were tons of windsurfers there and we loved watching them crash and fly all over the place.

on our way to lincoln city, we detoured a little and visited silver falls state park.  we could have spent a week there.  they have a ten mile hike to ten different waterfalls.  a few of the waterfalls have trails where you can walk behind the falling water.

we took a day drive down the coast to visit yaquina head lighthouse.  it was a little chilly, but the ocean and coast were so beautiful.

we loved all the little creatures we found in the tide pools.

aaron really wanted to drive up to astoria and see the goonie house.  i loved that little town.  

we drove up to see the view from the astoria column.  at the visitor's center they sell little wooden airplanes for $1.  after you climb all 164 stairs to the top of the column, you can fly your airplane off the platform.

cannon beach

meghan playing her guitar for all the grandkids and grandpa.

our hike to hanging bridge.

the view of the ocean from our beach house.

grandpa is always willing to entertain kids while the parents finish getting ready for church.

i giggle everytime i see this picture of my little boogie boarder.

grandpa showing cooper and emmy sea "nanenomies"

our beach house

it was so beautiful and green there.  this was our trail to the hanging bridge.

on our way home we stopped in boise to check out the boise state football field.

back to reality....we will miss that ocean view, the really really loud video game in the basement, playing pool, sitting in the hot tub, walking down to the beach, watching fireworks from the balcony, the painful massage chair, getting up really early to catch the low tide, flying our kites on the beach, and making wonderful memories.