Catching up

 Here I am with 10 weeks left. I believe this was taken right after Valentines Day in February.

 This little green machine has worked hard for us for 11 years!!!  We have brought both of our babies home in it, and unfortunately it was time to say goodbye.  We did make some money on it though, which helped with the purchase of our new "swagger wagon".  I am a little embarrassed to say the Mini-van kinda rocks!

 So, for Spring Break we took it out for a spin to the beach.  We stopped at Camp 18 and ate Cinnamon Rolls and saw the logging artifacts throughout the property. 

 We made it out to Seaside, with a race to get to the Bumper Cars!!!  What fun those are!

Once on the beach, Trenton decided to dig a hole until he fell in upsidedown!

 I... didn't move much.  I am a little slower now...

 But, Simon is anything but slow when it came to showing his Flipper a real live seal!

We did as much a s possible during Spring Break!  I ended up getting sick, but still wanted to have fun with the kids, so we had sleep overs with cousins, went golfing, had lunch dates, did Easter crafts and prepared for our big hunt on Sunday.

 Look at these guys?  

They are the best of friends and we are lucky enough to know we will be a family forever!  

Happy Easter!

North Oregon Coast

Camping at the coast must start with salt water taffy and Seaside was the perfect stop before we set up our site at Ft. Stevens SP. We each picked lots of our favorite flavors and ended up with sick tummy's from all the sugar!

We went on the bumper cars....

And when we got to the ocean... we found some good friends there who taught us a thing or two about skim boarding.

We played around sunken shipwrecks...

Spent the evenings and mornings here...

Ate a new treat called "Woofums"...

Master Chef...

Hiked the Astor column to launch glider planes.
Who would have thought the kids would end up in tears after they threw their planes off?

Played into our inner child and gawked at the Goonies house...

Waited for the Trolley to come and take us on a grand tour of Astoria...

Believe it or not... this is the place to get the best Fish and Chips you'll ever eat! We waited for 30 minutes in line.. and I'd do it again!
Played as a family...

Ate some sand for dessert...

Found "Battle stations" to let our imagines go WILD!

And had special time on "Simon and Mommy's" beach!

We didn't even get to see all that we wanted to. I guess we'll save the rest for next time!

Sand castles

I have a double dog dare for y'all... Can you make a sandcastle as cool as ours?


Corpus Beach Pano from lee bonfiglio on Vimeo.


Watch this a few times and watch our superhero moving around.
Thanks Lee... Your video skills are pretty, ok.

Oregon Beach video

I made a new video. This is from our family weekend at Lincoln City in September. The weather was perfect, and we had some fun games you'll see at the end.


Lincoln city 2010 from Raina on Vimeo.

It's HERE...

I did it!
I finally finished our video.

Here is my warning... this is 16 minutes long!
It is broken up into sections. So, if you dare watch the whole thing, pop some popcorn and enjoy.

Cabo 2009 from Raina on Vimeo.

Beach weekend

Here are just few pictures and a video from our trip out to the beach!!!

The summary sounds something like this....we met up with sweet friends for a short time and fell in love with their new baby! We got to know my brother's fiance and fell in love with her too! Then, we played in the sand, ate great food, hunt for pirate treasure and cried when we had to come home.

Here are our friends... safe, sound and on the ground.

Then, this happened, you cannot see it well.. but if you squint, blow up the picture, or look below you'll see Tony showing the boys how to be men.

I.... can be found behind the camera.

and... this video is not short, and most likely not exciting to anyone NOT in the family. Feel free to watch, but really.... just smile and say that you did.

Beach Trip 2009s from Raina on Vimeo.

Our Beach Trip

We went to the beach!
My parents have set an annual tradition of going to the coast. I'm so glad they set this up for us, it is fun and the best way to show off all of our happenings, is put into this video.



Lincoln City August 2008 from Raina on Vimeo.

And.. if you want to see how much the kids have grown... here is the link to the video from last year.