Bella Beach Part 1

Here are some pics from the first 2 days of our vacation to the Oregon Coast. We got here on Wednesday and are having a blast! We LOVE it here!

It is only the end of day 2 and I've taken 215 pictures already.... so believe me when I say this is just a sampling! :)

Tomorrow is shopping day for the girls! YAY!

Ring....ring.....ring....

Last night after putting the kids to bed, Sean couldn't find his cell phone anywhere. We decided that the easiest way (duh) was to call his phone from mine and listen for the ring. We'd be sure to find it, right? We kept hearing the faintest ring, but couldn't find it. So we kept calling and calling.... until finally it dawned on me. I was hearing the ring through Ian's monitor. It must have fallen out of Sean's pocket when he put Ian to bed. Sean tip-toed into Ian's room to get the phone, hoping it hadn't woken him up. The picture below is what he found when he got into Ian's room. Apparently he had fallen asleep in the middle of a very important conversation. We laughed really, really hard.... and we couldn't believe that he slept through our many calls attempting to find the phone. It was literally ringing in his ear!!!

(and... yes, he sleeps with all of those animals. No matter where they are in the bed when we leave the room, they end up circling his head as he sleeps. Hey, whatever works, right?!)

Beating the HEAT!

We went to Spokane this past weekend and boy was it really toasty. In fact, when we left on Sunday it was 103 degrees. Sorry people, that's TOO HOT for me!

On Saturday we ventured to Coeur D'Alene to play outside and do some shopping. The kids got really hot.... so we found this little mini "river" with a fountain in it and let them get completely soaked, clothes and all! Thankfully we had a change of clothes in the car.

We were in Spokane celebrating 2 big birthdays (I won't name the numbers...) for Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Bob and also Great-Grandma Anna's 92nd birthday--- Happy Birthday everyone!! We also got to spend time with Uncle Ryan- as well as Uncle Don and Great-Grandma Kay from California. It was a great weekend with Sean's family.

On a side note.... it is only 63 degrees here today. 40 degrees cooler than we were yesterday. I'm thanking God a lot today.... as 63 degrees and rain feels fantastic!

It's a big night!

Here is Ian.... asleep in his big boy bed for the first time!

I'll admit I was a tad hesitant about this night, but he did great! We keep pretty strict bedtime rules... no getting out of bed without calling for Mommy or Daddy first. He didn't get up once! Yay Ian!

His room looks HUGE without a crib and all the baby paraphernalia in it.

I wonder what he'll do when he wakes up in the morning?