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| Good morning! (Somebody was jealous of "Bampa" sharing his attention with her older cousin when she came back from the tidepools...) |
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| Seriously, just look at the love she has for him. Absolutely precious. |
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| After a delicious breakfast (Margie made Greek scrambled eggs and linguica sausage) we went down to the beach, and Jay brought his new insulated growler along (filled with fresh brew from Monday's lunch at Rogue) with some red Solo cups. Have I mentioned the eye-patch yet? Likely, a piece of sand got stuck behind his contact during our first beach trip on Sunday and scratched his cornea. By Monday evening, after our adventure down in Newport, he was in so much pain he couldn't open it, so he went to see an ophthalmologist Tuesday morning. Turns out the scratch had already started healing itself, causing an ulcer. He had to wear the patch for at least 24 hours while also using antibiotic and steroid drops. The kids all thought it was cool (and occasionally creepy) that he looked like a pirate though, so it wasn't all bad. |
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| It rained the ENTIRE TIME we were at the Oregon coast (well, off and on, but it was off and on all day and night). While we didn't let that deter us from playing at the beach, it did result in shorter visits and less enthusiastic sand play (the kids stayed warmer when running from waves or climbing the rocky stream). |
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| Ally is smack dab in the separation anxiety phase (almost 1-year-old!), wanting only her mama, though she did let her Auntie Vicki hold her quite a bit (and the rest of us ladies wrestled a few minutes with her here and there, until her Velociraptor shriek kicked up a notch and caused her mama to come running back) |
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| Some folks were smart enough to stay out of the rain... |
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| I think Grambot loved holding a sleeping infant just a little bit... |
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| Cousins Addy and Eli with their pretty mama, Auntie Taryn |
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| Cora latched onto her Uncle Davey quite a bit on this trip, but I'm pretty sure he didn't mind... |
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| Auntie Jamie with her daredevil little man Tyson (almost 4-years-old) and James, while Ally napped |
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| Cousin Barry definitely had the coolest toys (even I was jealous of this one...) |
Dad reluctantly shared the donuts with the kids...
Auntie Taryn wrote all the little ones' names in the sand while Cora supervised
I loved Addy's hairdo and her little sandy toes
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| Rocket launcher! |
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| The view from the stream |
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| Exploring the stream |
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| Throwing stones |
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| And skipping stones |
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| Cousin Barry catching some big air over a wave! |
After the beach, the kids bathed and warmed up, and spent the rest of the evening eating candy and watching movies. Sometimes you just have to let vacation do it's thing...
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| Didn't realize they were playing with Uncle Daryl's phone... I thought Tyson had a DS or iPod touch or something similar. My bad. |
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| Yum, candy necklaces! |
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| Candy and the resulting sugar crash (and perhaps ear infection issues) caused Cora to meltdown. Badly. Grambot finally calmed her with a new book, but she promptly fell asleep. Before dinner. |
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| It was our night to cook dinner, so we purchased some local fresh-caught fish (and some chicken) and fired up the grill. I even convinced a few family members to not only try brussel sprouts, but that they are awesomely good when cooked up the way Robyn taught me to back when James was an itty-bitty newborn and she came to visit and take care of us for a week while Jay was away on a work trip. |
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| The view from the upper deck of the beach house was pretty spectacular. Probably even more amazing when it's not raining 24/7... |
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| The deck chairs were good for spinning themselves sick... |
After dinner, the ladies headed out for a mamas' night out. To a local brew pub. That closed at 10pm (and we didn't get there until 9:45pm, due to needing to get children to bed that were obviously on vacation-time and didn't care a whit about normal bedtimes...) I made Jay proud and ordered the sampler, then we called my dad to come get us so we could end the evening drinking champagne in the hot tub. Pretty darn good girls' night if you ask me!
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| Taryn, Vicki, Jamie, and my hand - cheers to us! |
