Oregon Coast '09

Why is this underlined? lol. Anyways, we had a great trip. My family has a reunion every 2 years in the beautiful state of Oregon. This year my entire family was there, and we just had a blast. Here are some highlights...

Here's a view from Cape Mears lighthouse. This is about 25 minutes from Rockaway Beach(where we stay).

We went up to Cannon beach to ride these awesome bikes. When my bro's and sis and I were younger, we'd rent these and cruise around for hours. This is the first time in a long time that we've been on them again. They were so fun. They even had a trailer for Maren to ride in.

And here's our whole crew. Our cousins\aunts & uncles stayed in a different beach house b\c we've gotten so big, but here's all of my fam. (minus my dad-the photographer). 14 1\3 kids, and 12 adults!! It was so fun being together, especially at night when all the kids were asleep. We'd stay up and talk, laugh and eat Tillamook ice cream.

Haystack rock in Cannon beach. (Let's give a shout-out to where Goonies was filmed:)

Here's part of the cove at Oswald beach. This is probably my favorite part of our trip each time. It's a huge cove that you hike down into, and there are a lot of starfish and neat places to walk around.

Part of the family at Oswald.

Thanks to my bro Chad and his wife Sherry, we packed Maren around in this. She loved being so close to Andy's hair, ears and neck:) (Andy-you look handsome in this pict!)

Purple, orange starfish.

The grandkids all took turns spending time with my mom and dad. They all adore my parents, it's so fun to see that relationship.

Here's some of us at the 'Octupus tree' at Cape Mears. This tree is over 250 years old, and it never got a trunk, only lots of legs that look like octupus legs!

I really like lighthouses, and this one is not in service right now, but still cool to see.

Here's 2 of my neices- Audrey and Breanne. They could be seen like this the whole trip. They loved being able to spend so much time together. They arranged a performance for us one night that was similar to HS musical(I think)...it was really cute!

There's many cool views along the coast like this one.

Here's a picture from off the deck at our beach house. Each morning we'd go running and it was foggy, but burned off later in the morning.

Out the window from the drive from Portland to Tillamook.

This cool train was built by my dad's cousin. The kids all loved it, and Maren and I are in the front of the ranger.

My Grandpa's brother in law and my Grandpa.

Here's part of the farm where we had the reunion. It was beautiful out there. Before our flight on Friday, we drove to the Portland temple. It was at the end of a neighborhood covered in trees and shrubs.

Thanks to Mom and Dad, Grandpa and everyone else who planned to make this trip a memorable one. It's just the best being with family!!