The Oregon Coast for Memorial Day Weekend

Driving over to the coast was really pretty we went over on some county rd that just opened after being closed for the winter

A little cold compared to the beaches we are use to but still fun to build sand castles and explore

The sand was nice and wet kind of like dirt...so it was great when Bren was tired and he just threw his face down into the sand pile before he passed out in the stroller

Castle Building

On Saturday morning we went on a jet boat 104 miles round trip up the Rogue River. It was beautiful and the videos caught more fun than the camera...we did see sea lions, otters, lots of birds, bald eagles, and a momma bear and her two cubs

 

Sunday we drove along the coast into California for more adventures

We did some hiking and checked out some natural bridges on our way to the Redwoods

Bryce with this guys at the Trees of Mystery

A little tight but hey it's a rental

The Redwoods State park was awesome, we were just sorry that night was creeping upon us. With all the climbing and hiking we could have spent more time here. We did make the trail around the park though

Pictures don't do it justice

Check out that root system pretty small hmm

Our last week in Oregon and we are going to miss it, the trip has been great! We leave on Saturday morning...Bryce has a preschool performance and gets to say good bye to all of his friends, but he is sad that he won't be able to have his friends at his birthday party. Good bye's always suck, but what great memories we have.

 

Oregon 2

Back to Crater Lake this time with snow shoes

Although it was really windy and a little too slushy...IE lots of falling from a certain 4 yr old lead to not such a great day, but still very pretty ;)

Race day and this is Niesha...they are going to miss each other (preschool buddies)

These were all the preschool buddies that ran the race

Bryce with his girls Niesha and Adalie

Building a bird house with Daddy after the race

Brennen had more fun just chewing on Mommy's water bottle

The boys play in boxes A LOT lets hope this doesn't get boring any time soon..since we have 10 different deliveries that will happen once we get to Japan.

Yup that is right Daddy turned 40 :) and we love him even more as an old man...

 

This Monument had about 20 caves to explore.

Decked out in his caving gear and he LOVED it after being scared in the first one he wanted to hit them all.

Down into the first cave

Brennen even like them

They had two tunnels to choose from and one to crawl back up

Into Skull cave

Side walk chalk has been lots of fun as of late...a very colorful sunshine

More Oregon Fun

Lava Beds near Bend, Oregon I had to add this one bc this is how Bryce is :) That is Mt. Bachelor behind us where the boys will go skiing tomorrow.

Yeah the whole family

We hiked to a water fall after the Lava Beds

Ski day with a harness was much better for everyone and the Dinosaur helmet was a big hit

MMM snow

Hiking backpack water spout is pretty good too

Dinosaur found a hole to play in and throw snowballs

Mt. Bachelor

Brennen 9 mths

Wow where is the time going.....9mths Mister Brennen...a little late...but you are on the move this month like a crazy man. You already pull yourself up onto everything. Earlier this month Daddy caught you not napping  and being very proud as you stared standing at Daddy over your pack-n-play. Which lead to several days of hard sleep, bc man that was a fun new trick to do ALL the TIME. As the month went on you would play on your knees, pull yourself up to the couch, and play on the first stair. Well the month is almost over and you also started climbing.....up the stairs and up and into your toy box...you also take steps and can move around the couch and coffee table. So needless to say you really have to be watched. You love to play with your brother and have gotten pretty good and vrooming the hot wheel cars and play a mean sound on the pots and pans. You eat everything we put in front of you and prefer to feed yourself. Unfortunately I haven't been able to let you feed yourself with the spoon much, due to the kitchen table and carpet...REALLY who puts carpet where you have your only table. You have your 4 front teeth, 2 on top and 2 on bottom, two more are breaking through. In your nine months you have flown internationally twice into Korea  from the USA and Guam and  have been on some crazy cross country drives. Our time in Oregon is coming to an end and we have many more adventures before we touch down in OKI on June 27.

Super Brennen chasing down the football

Climbing over cushions

Fun at the park

So hard to keep these stickers on without pulling them off right away

See those teeth and one big cheese

This is the cube where my toys are and I have been caught inside this

MMMM pasta night