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Showing posts with label Family outings. Show all posts
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Eternal Milestone!
Garrett turned 12 in February. It is the age in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints where you may submit yourself worthy to your clergy to receive a temple recommend. With this recommendation and your faith and worthiness you may enter the temple and perform baptisms for family that did not have the opportunity for baptism while on the earth. The deceased ancestor may accept or decline the ordinance performed. We consider it a sacred role and service to offer this opportunity for all Heaven Fathers children to have the chance to enjoy His cleansing water of baptism. The temple is a sacred house of our Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ here on earth; the most holy and pure place on earth. It symbolizes heaven; so having our family worthy and attending the temple together is a momentus occasion and a wonderful milestone to experience this first time and hopefully many many more times to come.
Cannon Beach -Jamie's Birthday Trip
In light of our efforts to enjoy and explore the area; I chose to plan a trip to a sandy beach on the Oregon coast. for Jamie's birthday. I had one weekend free in July to make it happen between YW camp, cub day camp, and Jamies' 11 yo camp out. We also have been stocking up and building our camping equipment. I wanted to be as close to the beach as possible and found an RV "Resort" that sounded great. They even had horses available for rent to ride up the beach, showers and flush toilets. Sounded pretty sweet to me. I booked way back in April, and we were all very excited to go to Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, OR .
We loaded to car Thursday night, Jamie took off Friday from work and we headed out bright and early. I forgot to print directions to the RV park, but Jamie was able to look up a map on his phone. Thank goodness for technology. I fell asleep and we missed the exit just before Portland and didn't realize until we were in Portland in the heavy traffic and I had a chance to check our status. OOPS!! All is well, it just meant we were in teh car a little longer, like and hour, but we made it to camp in plenty of time to set up camp, go to the ocean, and make dinner before it rained. :) Yep it rained on another campout again. we were smart this time we brought the pop-up canopy and upgraded our tent since the last camp out. All the other campers huddled in their tents, we played Yahtzee under the canopy.
We met a nice man and his wife that travel the country in their RV all summer, Savanah, Garrett, and I rented horses and went riding on the beach, and the kids played catch with the softball. After lunch we went into the quaint little town and rented 'funcycles' to ride up the beach to the tidepool at the base of Haystack. On the way back to camp we stopped at the Candy Kitchen and loaded up on Homemade saltwater taffy and Fresh carmel corn. Mmmmm, that was soo good. I want to learn how to make 'crunchy' carmel corn.
I rained all night Saturday, so we had to pack up the car Sunday as the rain let up, so it took a few hours. We made one more stop at the candy store before heading out of town, and had lunch at a local cafe. the kids are still talking about how good the food was. It was such a nice vacation. Laid back, and just us. we will definitely be returning.
another camping trip: Kanaskat-Palmer State Park
We tried out another local campground about an hour from home. We arranged to go with some friends from church. We stayed a couple nights and it was sure nice that the campground had flush toilets and showers. The girls were still at girls camp the first night, but Jamie went and picked them up and brought them camping for our 2nd night. As you might imagine they were all too excited to be camping some more! LOL As a good and thoughtful mom, I packed shampoo and conditioner and a razor for the girls and they were a little happier after their warm showers.
Salmon La Sac Campground
This was our first attempt at camping this year and we were all pretty excited. We were meeting Lisa and Andrew too. Somehow the road to Utah is only one-way. No one ever seems to find the on ramps to head our way. LOL So the kids especially were excited to spend some time with family, a rarity in our lives having always lived out of state. We gathered gear and packed up Friday, last week and meet up at the campground. we had a fabulous evening setting up camp, building a fire, and exploring. DAY 2: we woke up and Lisa and Andrew had run into town and left their pet bunny tied up OUTSIDE their tent. Anyone else seen a possible problem with leaving a small furry animal tethered in an outdoor open area (hawks, eagles....) YA. We took care of Daisy and put her in a crate, after we caught her on a excursion to explore the campsite. PHEW! We lathered with sunscreen, played in the river, went for a hike and headed back to camp for lunch. Thenwe played in another part of the river b/c we were still so hot. At 5 -ish we headed back to camp for dinner prep, Jamie ad Andrew headed to town; we planned on dutch oven this night and forgot the lighter fluid. Within 20 minutes some pretty ominous BLACK were rolling in and we made a game plan to continue playing games in the tent until the guys returned. It started raining, then raining harder, then it was pouring sheets with thunder and lightening. After an hour and a little hail the guys returned to a private lake in our campsite, leaky tens, soggy bedding, and frustrated hungry group. there was no way we were staying since the bedding was soaked and it was still raining. We threw everything wet and muddy in the JEEPs and headed for home; 2 days early. It WAS a great campground, we were having a fabulous time. But we were only an hour and a half from home.
Memorial Day
Since Katelyn and I hike Rattlesnake Ledge I have wanted to take the family to the lake. So the weather held out through the weekend and Monday was perfect for playing in the water. We packed up the cooler and headed out. Lots of fun. All of the kids made the swim across the lake to the gigantic rock on the other side.
Spring Break on San Juan Island
I have too many pictures to post, so you will just have to visit our picture album on Picasa. We had a fabulous time. This is one place we will frequent any time of year. We searched out 5 Geocaches and found three. We took a Whale and Wildlife Tour of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. It was just us and an older couple from Scotland, so quite a nice private tour. No whales but we had a porpoise chasing along side our boat, lots of seals, black tail dear that actually swim island to island-- go figure, that evolution for ya! Katelyn the ever wise and all-knowing teenager stayed huddled in a bundle of blankets for the entire 4 hour tour on the bow of the boat. She was too cool for a coat and didn't even wear socks, just some slip on shoes. She learned to be grateful for my advice to her to wear underarmor and to at least bring her coat. I am so much smarter than I look :o) Another hit was South Beach...... I had mentioned to the kids it was a driftwood beach and they thought it was totally STUPID to go see wood on a beach. So I dragged them all out there complaining the whole way. and as we came up and over the hill to see the beach " that my dears is driftwood" They had lots of fun combing the beach for rocks and seashells. Examining the driftwood and tidepools. We found a little gobie and lots of tiny clams. Savanah lost her favorite sunglasses but thought she found a pearl in the rocks (right), then blamed Garrett for covering it with sand. Katelyn found a crab and sunburned her face. We all had a fabulous Spring Break!
"oh, what do you do".... on a warm winter day?
We have been having some beautiful weather lately. I mean really. Upper 50 degree temps, sometimes 60's; sunny and blue skies. We have wasted a few and Jamie and I thought we would take advantage today since we are forecasted for rain tomorrow. :( We both looked through a great reference book we came across when we moved here "Best Hikes with KIDS"
we chose an "easy hike" so we could take the dog too. this is one of my favorite things to do especially as a family. Wish you could have joined us. Here is how much fun we had........
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LickIt!
When momma and daddy were here for Westgard reunion we took the ferry to Bainbridge Island. One of the seagull left a little sumthin' for us to remember him by and Savanah couldn't help herself.
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