Oregon Coast

We made it to the Oregon Coast!  With everything that's been going on this summer, it was a true miracle.  I wasn't sure we were going until a couple of days before.  Thus, I was less than prepared.  Unfortunately, because of work stuff, Jake wasn't able to come.  Major bummer.  Although I think he did enjoy the quiet house and being able to do his own thing.

Almost all of the Spjutes and Binghams were able to go, so we had great fun together.  The weather was amazing.  No rain at all with beautiful blue skies every day.  So we spent a lot of time at the beach.  It was awesome.  Zack spent hours boogie boarding, even Sage enjoyed it, we played some fun volleyball games, dug in the sand, and just enjoyed being there.  The kids spent every second playing with cousins, which was awesome.  I love when they're able to spend time together and get to know each other better.  It brought back lots of memories of similar trips with cousins when I was younger.  Grandma and Grandpa planned some fun adventures.  We went to Tillamook for ice cream lots of times.  We went on hikes.  One hike was a teenager night hike.  It was pretty amazing.  It was a clear night and the stars were amazing.  I've never been on the beach at night before.  It was pretty cool.  Anyway, I'll let a million pictures tell the story.  Bottom line: we had a great time!

Beautiful Mt. Hood

We stopped on the way and went on a little hike in the Hood River area.  It was beautiful!

Fish hatchery!

Awesome tree at our camp site

Looking in the tide pools

Zack hung his hammock up in the tree.  It was awesome!  He spent hours in that thing.

Boogie boarding fun

Double dutch with the cousins

We spent every night at the beach watching the sunset

The triplets are growing up!

Octopus Tree

Sage and Addie spent hours playing together

The littles were so excited to play volleyball

Scooter ride!

What it looked like when we gathered

Cannon Beach.  We were there for all of 10 minutes.  Maybe not worth it.

But then we ate delicious fish, which made it more worth it.

Pinata fun!

Cape Lookout Point, or something like that

Delicious Tillamook ice cream

We did our own light parade one night with all of the glow sticks.  It was so much fun!  Toby turned "The Greatest Showman" on his phone and Henry sang along.  People came out of their tents to see the spectacle.  

Candy at the end of the treasure hunt.

I think almost everyone was in this picture

The adventure ended watching "Finding Nemo" on the beach.