Sand, Heat and Wedgies. Good times.

So far I think I like blogger. I've been able to add some recent pictures to the sidebar as well as a few other fun things. The pics are from our trip to Oregon a couple weeks ago. The five of us drove down to Cannon Beach and then spent the night in Portland. The next morning we met the Russell's for a trip to the zoo and then stuffed our faces at Honey Pig in Tacoma. It was only a short two day road trip but I don't think either John or I can remember the last time we had so much fun. For those two days, it was like we didn't have one worry in the world, which if you know John, is very rare.

I was surprised how much the kids loved the beach. Even I was relaxed and chill, even though sand was flying everywhere and we had dressed the kids in jeans instead of shorts. Hey, I thought it was going to be cold! Anyways, Evelyn dumped a few shovels of sand on Oliver's head and, while normally I would freak out at the thought of dirt nestling itself in every crevice of my children's bodies, I just let the kids have fun no matter how messy they got. By the time we got back to the car, the sand had dried off and it was pretty easy to dust them off. Although, later in the hotel Evelyn did wonder why she had sand in her underwear. :)













Other than that, things have been pretty uneventful around here. We're enjoying the heatwave as much as we can. Thankfully our house is about 10 degrees cooler than it is outdoors so we've just been holing up inside. John bought the kids a large pool, despite my explicit instructions to not bring home a gigantic one. So of course he bought the largest one sold. In his (meager) defense, it was the only size pool left. But I would have rather than no pool than a gigantic turquoise blowup monstrosity. Nonetheless, the kids enjoyed splashing around in the water. That is, until Evelyn discovered that yucky bugs can fly in the water and ruin all the fun! Seriously, that girl is afraid of bugs like I am afraid of heights. Unfortunately she has inherited my ability to be afraid of basically everything in this world.

Fabulous.

Also taking after her mother - WEDGIE!