June

The kids and I stumbled upon this beach in June. It's on the Oregon side near the airport. It's sandy and beautiful and my favorite part is that the airplanes fly right over head. It's my little piece of heaven! Our first time there was so entertaining - these people were wearing these Rainier Beer Bottle costumes and they would wander all around the beach. They looked like Chickens wandering around and then all of the sudden they would freeze, huddle together, and hold perfectly still. It was hilarious!!

 We found a perfect spot on the beach with no one around us. The kids played and played. They loved it!!!  We ended up going back 3 more times that week and another 3 times the following week.

 I took the kids to the "red playground" near Clark College. The last time Ash was at this park was when she was about 2 years old. Preston had never been there. They loved it. It's really big and has a lot of different things to play on.

We've started going to a new church and Ash drew this while we were in service. She's so cute!

After church we went bowling. We signed up for free kids bowling during the summer which is great because we only have to pay for the shoe rentals. We've been a few times so far this summer, but we definitely need to go more! 

 At the end of June my friend Jaime and I took our kids to the ocean! She had never been to Tillamook so we headed there first, then up to Seaside for the day to go clamming and crabbing. We had planned on going to Astoria too, but we ended up just driving through it because it was so late and the kids were already asleep in the cars. We didn't get home until around 1am. It was such a fun fun fun day!!! The weather was perfect, the ocean water was actually warm! We got 1 crab that we had to throw back because it was a female, and we got 1 good clam, 1 big clam that broke when we dug it up, and 1 baby clam. Jaime was determined to get her 15 clam limit, but we couldn't find anymore so we gave up.