Camping

Monday was supposed to get hot, so we headed out to the beach for the day.  The weather was beautiful!  Sunny and mostly warm as long as you weren't in the wind.  We had a fun afternoon on the beach and in the water before heading home! 

Tuesday morning was a park playdate with the ward.  We got there a bit earlier than everyone else, but had fun once they finally arrived.  The kids always have fun when they get to play with friends.  Evelyn had come hoping to hang out with her friend, but they got there late, so after she and David went to their house to play.  

David loves to read Scriptures with people, and I caught these two wonderful pictures on Wednesday

Wednesday was one of Sister Shum's music camps.  The kids had a great time and it gave me a bit of time to get a few things done.  

Wednesday and Thursday morning were spent in getting ready to go camping.  Aaron, Dan and Anna went and helped our friends move Thursday around lunch, then we finished loading up the car and headed out!  

We got in a little past check in time and got our site set up and dinner eaten while we waited for the rest of the families to get in.  We had our good friends right next to us which was fun and the kids spent a wonderful 3 days hanging out with their friends and running a bit wild.  

The park had a fun little program about the coastal ecosystem which the kids enjoyed, we learned all about different kinds of kelp, which was kind of fun to be able to identify them later on the beach! 

The campsite was a short walk from the beach, so the weather was cool and we spent a lot of our time walking on the beach or playing on the beach.  We spent a large chunk of Friday on the beach playing in the sand and water.  David made a new friend - he latched onto a teenage girl and her brother early on and spent the whole afternoon playing with them.  Evie hung out with them some too.  They were really nice and played with him and he had a blast.  Eileen caught a little garter snake and everyone thought that was really cool!  The adults chatted and tried to stay warm and get pictures :) 

Dan had stayed to work Friday, so he came up to join us Friday evening.  We had fun roasting marshmallows and making s'mores.  

Saturday, we all headed to the Devil's Punchbowl which was nearby and had fun climbing around and finding rocks and shells and hanging with friends.  Anna really wanted some snail shells, but the only ones she could find all still had snails living in them :(  

 

After, we went and packed up and had lunch, then we headed out.  We stopped at a fun little place called the Hatfield Marine Science Visitors Center.  We got to see and try a lot of fun things and learn about the marine life and other things about the Oregon Coast.