Beverly Beach

Here's some camping pictures at Beverly Beach State Park. My college friend of 16 years came up from Utah to show her family the beach. Tiffany and I met way back in our BYU days and I realized too late I didn't get a picture of her and me together! But got lots of pictures of our kids:
Nicholas, London, Zach, and Trina:

Hunter and Brooke:

Trina and Mike figured out a new way to keep your head warm!

Nicholas and Zach making smores (smores are THE only real reason to go camping, in my opinion):

The Marine Science Center is right nearby and usually their octopus is quite lazy. But this time it was up moving around like crazy!

Here's Nicholas even touching the octopus! Brave kid:

Drift Creek Falls

We went camping with some friends at our favorite State Park, Beverly Beach, and found this cool hike on the way there. It's called Drift Creek Falls and it is pretty close to Lincoln City. If you're ever headed that way it's worth the detour! This is a picture of the suspension bridge near the waterfall at the end of the hike:

Click the link for more pictures of the building of the bridge (or copy and paste into your browser). Pretty amazing!
http://www.sahale.com/drift%20gallery.htm

Here's another little bridge along the way. Looks like we're in a jungle!

Brooke and Hunter on the bridge:

Mike on the bridge:

Our family:

It's Always Fun When Grandparents Come!

My parents (known as Nanee and Papa) came to visit for a few days and my kids loved posing for the camera!
Here's Papa and the boys:

Papa and Nicholas:

Me, forcing Zach to pose with me:

At least Brooke will pose with me!

Brooke with Nanee, who had just had thyroidectomy a few days prior:

Papa playing "stroller tag" with the kids:

He tries to tag the kids with the stroller while they try to tag him at the same time:

Fun times! Thanks for the visit, mom and dad!

My Dear Sweet Brookey...

All she wants to do is play with her baby brother...

But she's getting a little rough...

I don't think David likes this game...

David gets a bottle, Brooke gets reprimanded by mom...

But she's just not done with her game!

Poor David, it's tough being the youngest!