Indian Beach

While reading through a Coastal Living magazine, it had something like 10 best hidden beaches in the USA. Well, they had Indian Beach listed, and thanks for making not so secret now :P We go to this beach 90% of the time if we do go to the coast, it's a beautiful beach, it has a big lighthouse a few miles out on a rock called Tillamook Head, and lots of tide pools to play in if the tide happens to be out. We went last Monday for Labor Day. The tide happened to be way out, which we hadn't seen before, so we had a fun time!

Big Mussels!

Starfish ahoy!

The summer sun makes their hair white! So cute :)

Tillamook Head lighthouse, way out there...
There's a better look, I zoomed in for you.
It's gonna eat me!!!!
Summer is here yay!!!!

The Warrior Bug

Mark caught a beetle bug, and had to paint it. The kids thought this was the coolest thing ever. Here are some pictures he took of them. I think it's hilarious!

The weekend started out with sushi for dinner yum!

Now, we have our friends over swimming... talk about a perfect weekend!

Sunday Afternoons

Sunday was a beautiful day here, so I had to go take a picture of my monkeys hanging in the tree. I have a lot of monkeys running around my neighborhood. How about you?
Cute Face!
Silly Face!
Aunt Emily and Uncle Owen sent the kids some sweet birthday gifts. Here they are showing them off :)

A trip to Colorado

My sister Nikki, and her hubby Dan are finally parents (yay!). They had their baby on Sunday May 3rd. We were in Bend, Oregon for the weekend, I was able to talk to them that morning, and hear about it. Everything we fine with the birth, and they had a girl. Her name is Lilyanne Nicole. And she’s so cute! I left my kids and Mark at home, and went to visit Lily for 5 days. It was so good to see my family.

On my way to Colorado, I had a 4 hour layover in Salt Lake. My sister in law Melissa came and got me. I was happy she did, because we had a fun 4 hours! We went to see Aunt Phyllis, and we totally surprised her. I love doing that. After seeing her, we went and picked up Grandma Painter for lunch. It was a great afternoon.
Look at cute Melissa, she’s due to have a baby mid-June.
Casey even made it us to visit. It has been too long since I’ve seen him. I am glad that he came.
I had fun with Nikki and Lily. We spent a lot of time talking, and me watching Nikki adjust to having a baby… believe me, it’s an adjustment. It brought back a flood of memories for me, and I was glad to have been able to be with them for awhile when Lily was so new.
When I returned home, my kids were pretty happy to see me. It’s good to know I am loved :) Mark even went grocery shopping while I was gone, I am impressed LOL!

California Adventure

So, they are doing construction on California Adventure's big lake. So, it was kind of roped off, closed up, and you had to see a lot of big blue walls... I liked Disneyland better, but California Adventure had some very cool rides!

Mater! and Lightning McQueen! Sweet! I love these guys. Having lunch :)

Jessie waiting in line for the Tower of Terror, my favorite one. :)

Jessie got some mickey mouse bread for her birthday at lunchtime.

Brother Bear...

A Bug's Life land, it was adorable, and their 3D show was very cool.

Jessie trying to lift those weights...

Mark was posing for this picture, I was NOT.

I think we walked 20 miles each day, we are exhausted, but we had a wonderful time. Disneyland is the funnest place around!

Disneyland ROCKS!

We haven't ever brought the kids to Disneyland, we decided this year for their birthdays, it was due time we went. So I am going to post lots of pictures of Disneyland, just warning ya!

We flew into Orange County on Tuesday morning and headed to Newport Beach. The weather was about the same there as it had been in Portland, in the 60-70's. That didn't stop the kids from getting right into the ocean though.

Curren found a surfboard with his name on it! (he was kinda sorta named after this guy :)

Here we are... standing in line... for the Buzz Lightyear ride. It was fun. And can I just say Fast Pass is the best thing ever???

The castle! We even saw the evil wicked queen wandering around there, she was very snobby and rude, which was very fun.

If you go on your birthday, you get in free. And you get this cool button to wear, so everybody says Happy Bday to you!

Jessie with Pluto.

We got to meet Mickey the Mouse! He even kissed the kids on the head :)