Perfect Weekend

Kinleys testing out the water.

     Pure Happiness!

             Looking at shells.

     Pointing at all the kites in the kite festival in Lincoln City.

         We liked the cool whale kites.

This weekend we decided to pack the bags and head to Newport for the weekend (before our groupon for a hotel down here expired). The weather channel said it was supposed to be rainy most of the time and around 58 degrees. But when we got down there it was absolutely GORGEOUS, we couldn't have asked for a better weekend. We stopped in Lincoln City for the Kite festival that happened to be going on. Kinley loved watching all the different kinds of kites. They even had some cool professional kite flyers doing some routines to music, it was pretty neat! We also stopped at the outlet malls there, and picked up some good stuff. Then we headed for the beach and let kinley go to town in the ocean! It amazes me that she doesn't seem to mind the FREEZING COLD water! We also got to play in the hotel pool and we got to watch a movie after kinley was asleep on the laptop. We love being able to getaway as a family occassionally and I'm glad that the groupon forced us to go, because we had a blast. We are definetely going to miss these after we leave Oregon.

Red Clover Fields!

One thing about oregon I'm going to miss are all of the beautiful flowers and fields they have around. This red clover field is only a minute from our house and they are beautiful..Kinley loved being in the middle of all of the flowers! Shes too cute!

Coast Weekend ***Picture overload***

Cape Mears

 A cool woodpecker at cape mears. I took this picture for my brother Brian cause I know he has gotten into bird watching recently!

 Kinley looks soo happy here! :) She loves grandma and grandpa!!

 The bird watchers were out and we got to see a Peregrin Falcon.

 A cool rock that looks like an elephant!

After cape mears we headed to the beach to let Kinley have a little fun! We didn't think she would like the water because it is FREEZING cold. But it didn't even phase this kid! She was having the time of her life, and was not happy when it was time to go inside!

Watching the Sunset on our 5th year Anniversary! I love you honey!!!

 Our next stop was up to Cannon Beach.

 This is the rock off of the movie Goonies.

 Grandma walking Kinley down the Promenade at seaside.

 Grandpa and kinley walking on the beach.

 Our next stop after that was Fort Stevens to see this cool shipwreck.

 Then we were off to learn about Lewis and Clark and Fort Clatsop.

 Then we headed to Astoria! This is the Astoria Column. We got to climb a bunch of stairs to the very top!  It was a gorgeous view from up there!

 This girl is definetely not afraid of heights...It made me so nervous having her up there with us.

 Our last stop of the coast trip was to see the seals! Kinley loved making the little seal noises!

Thanks for such a fun trip Grandma and Grandpa Drake! We had a blast with you guys, and miss you already! Kinley still walks around the house saying Grandpapa Grandmama :)

Tulip Festival

Kinley with Grandma and Grandpa Drake

Playing in the flowers

I loved the one lonely yellow flower!

She still has to put everything in her mouth.

Family pic

Erics Parents came in to town on Friday and we decided to head over to the Tulip festival that afternoon. I loved seeing all the beautiful flowers! It had been raining on and off earlier, so there were puddles everywhere and that was all kinley wanted to play with! These were the best pictures we could get of her, because she did not want to be held!!! I'm glad we got to go to the tulip festival before we left oregon!