Camping Trip - Lincoln City, OR

Well our camping trip last weekend over the extended holiday vacation was very fun. We went to the Oregon Coast Aquarium, the beach where Jordan got to fly his own kite all by himself, we even did a little shopping at the tanger outlets, and then of course fun at the KOA campsite. The aquarium was basically outside whereas the Seattle aquarium is inside a building...Philip and I agreed they basically way OVERcharged for what they had there, but I guess you go once, say you've been there, and be done. The boys definitely had fun...Justin was watching and pointing at all of the animals he could and Jordan, well he was asking so many questions...I thought I was the tour guide for the park:-) So inquisitive they are at this age! The campsite was great and we were in a cool spot; though we did have to back in to the spot and being newbies at this was cause for concern but we were lucky in that the trailer across the way hadn't showed up yet so we were basically able to use his spot to pull through and then back into are spot; we had no idea how we would've done that if the trailer had been there! The ladies next to us had said, that's why we refuse that spot for that purpose of the angle in having to back into it...oh well, if we go back, we've got our numbered spot (#21) we would want:-) Lessons learned...again! Both of the boys got to play in the sand at the beach (mind you with fleeces and hoods on); they were building sandcastles, digging holes, and plain just having fun; IT WAS GREAT to see them playing together!!!

http://www.aquarium.org/

http://www.koa.com/where/or/37108/

We've got lots of pictures to share, but are in the process of restoring our computer back to factory settings and getting significantly faster dsl for our Internet. As you can see things are progressing (at least the Internet is back up and running & for sure faster), but the Obama camera has yet to be reloaded and installed for the pictures. I'll post as soon as that happens; hopefully not before both boys are in kindergarten:-) I kept Justin outside at the campsite on Saturday night with his blue birthday fleece/hooded jacket on since it was windy and cold, but he still got a very runny nose and was sick with a cold up until just a couple of days ago...he seems to be doing quite fine now but I've learned he can't be out at night unless it's warmer! Hopefully I'll get the pictures posted tomorrow...

Jordan got to stay up way past his bedtime every night and we are still reliving that nightmare to this night...It's 8:13p right now and his bedtime is at 8p; he'll give all kinds of excuses at bed...I need water, I gotta go potty, I need to be covered up, where's my cow?, where's my lamb?, etc...I'm sure you mom's know how that goes:-) He is SO sleepy right now!!! He definitely had a lot of fun camping; In fact, he met a couple of kids that he was able to play with at camp at the play yard.

Philip and I were able to have a little while to ourselves when both boys went to bed and we huddled around the campfire chatting (until the wood burned out)! I think we are going to buy a trailer of wood to have stored at our house so that we can just throw it in the trailer and go; it seems to be the cheaper way then buying bundles at the campsites, plus the bundles you buy don't last long enough that obviously you end up buying more! We kept busy the entire time, but also Philip was able to make us all breakfast every morning and dinners in the evening...it was great (and tasted good too)!

What was funny was that we had wanted to leave the house at 10a and we did, but then once we got the 3 miles away to pick up the boys at daycare and continue heading down the road, I had actually forgot a couple of things that we had to turn around...Philip said "I had wanted to be on the road at 10a" (our first trip, we had wanted to be on the road at noon and ended up on the road at 2:30); I said "hey, look at it like this we are getting 2 hours better each trip, so by time we get to our next camping trip (2 weeks to Leavenworth, WA), we actually might get ahead of ourselves:-) and leave 1 1/2 hours earlier then we planned"! I guess stay tuned....

Updates - It's been awhile!

Wow, how time flies...I've not been so diligent in keeping up this month with the blog:-(  It seems like we've just been so busy, plus it doesn't help that we've had internet and phone problems that if you may notice...are still ongoing!

 

Anyways, we are all doing great!  Jordan about ripped his poor little pointer finger off by sticking his finger through a plexiglass hole at JcPenney on one of their racks (to be precise, it was over by the rugs) and of course I didn't know that so I took off pushing the stroller when I hear this screaming and crying and I look down and his finger is bleeding and a small portion of the skin on his finger was pulled back!  It was chaos...a lady from the store came running over asking 'did he put his finger in the holes'?  She said a lot of kids do that...I'm like maybe you should do something about it!  Another stranger gave Jordan $2 because she felt really bad; just trying to cheer him up.  Long story short, his finger is looking substantially better now and healing nicely.  Justin was just wondering what the heck was going on.  Besides that, Jordan has been really playing with his brother a lot, but also taking stuff from him saying 'it's mine'!  I've told Jordan he had better watch out cuz Justin will get big soon enough and will start taking his stuff back!!!

 

Justin is just about 14 months old now and growing like a weed!  He loves his food and you can't feed him fast enough when he is eating!  He climbs onto everything and has got a few little words in his vocabulary now like, mommy, daddy, oh oh, and bye (with a hand wave too)! 

 

We are heading out camping tomorrow morning for the long weekend.  Philip and I took Friday off so we could get a head start and beat traffic down the I-5 corridor since we are heading to Lincoln City, OR.  It's not supposed to rain, but because we will be out on the coast, it is to be about 10 degrees colder there then at home.  Our weather here at home is to be in the low-mid 70's...it's taken forever for spring to get here and in just a few weeks summer will actually be here already!  I'll post out pictures of our adventure as soon as I'm able, hopefully by next weekend....:-) 

 

I'll post out some new pictures of the boys tonight (if the internet is working at home)!

 

Have a Happy Memorial Day weekend!

 

Happy Mother's Day to all!

I hope all you mom's are enjoying your special day and have something wonderful for the day planned. It is supposed to be mid-high 60's here today & sunny. I think I'm going to enjoy the day outside in the yard...I'll let you know if that actually happens:-) Philip BBQ'd pork ribs yesterday; this is some of the meat we got from the Butcher Boys meat market....SO yummy!!! I will post pictures of the birthday party later today....

Found On Road Dead?

Sound familiar...it might to anyone who has ever owned a FORD (myself included):-)

If you didn't notice or guess it already in the pictures on the posting directly below this one with a big greenish truck and no plates in a few of the picture...Philip got a new truck! And when I say new, I mean new and fully loaded. It is a 2008 F-350 4x4 Super Duty; I almost think it should be out on the farm in MI helping Grandma & Papa on the farm. It is SO huge, so huge in fact that when I stand next to the hood of the truck you can only see my head peering out over the top. The hood of the truck is literally as high as my shoulders. If you look at a 2009 model loaded to the 'gills', you'll pretty much be looking at Philip's truck. He got somewhere between an $8K-$9K rebate on the 2008 because as you can imagine, 2010 trucks will be coming out this year. The truck only had 200 miles on it. Below are a couple of pictures from last Sunday when we came back from camping to park the trailer; one of just the truck and one of the truck and trailer. I swear, the trucks now as big/long as the trailer:-) It is significantly a more smoother ride then the other truck was in towing the trailer; so it was all worth it in the end as long as Philip doesn't come to me saying we now need a bigger travel trailer!