The Wood Between the Worlds

3/06/2011 | Author: jefferies

I love sunny Sunday afternoons in winter in Oregon. Somehow the light floods the living room just right so that I want to take a few pictures.

Brent was having a moment of annoyance over the camera...

My 4 kids

(I decided that this little bird is going to represent Elsa in our family pictures...

so keep an eye out for her!)

I'd be very happy if I could figure out why my camera is taking such grainy pictures...hmm,

maybe I should read the manual?

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a blip of snow

3/06/2011 | Author: jefferies

And just like that *, we have snow. And just like that *, it's gone!

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sewing buddy

3/06/2011 | Author: jefferies

Oh! I have so MANY projects that I need to sew (I'll post some pics later...pretty soon I'll be revealing a surprise!). And lucky for me I have this cute little bubby to keep me company. Because most of my work consists of the boring job of patching up the boy's clothes.

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windy nehalem bay

3/03/2011 | Author: jefferies

my husband is awesome

Well folks, my birthday came and went again. Another year older (a total of 33 years), another year more experienced, another year closer to holding Elsa again.

But we had a fun time! We took a quick weekend trip out to the coast to go yurt camping again. This time we went to Nehalem Bay State Park. It is a fun little campground nestled on a peninsula with the Bay on one side and the ocean on the other. There is a bike trail and a playground as well as nice beach access. I can see us going back in the summer with our bikes, canoe and surfboards (which we hope to acquire cheaply before then)...and just rip it up!! {Ohmygoodness! I LOVE summer in Oregon. I CANNOT wait.}

We arrived the night before my birthday and Brent had planned a cookout with Joshua. They made foil-wrapped tamales and steamed vegetables! We discovered that Nehalem Bay State Park has a raccoon problem. A raccoon problem where they come way to close and try to steal your dinner. Next we discovered that you can scare raccoons away by standing up on your tiptoes, raising your arms abover your head and RAWRing loudly. Then we retired to a lovely accommodations.

Reading stories

Toby's always hamming it up for the camera.

Oliver's plush accommodations

The next morning we went to breakfast, as is the tradition for my birthday. I LOVE going to breakfast...but we rarely do it because it is so easy to make breakfast foods, so when we go out to eat we try to keep it to foods that are hard to make. We found a sweet little cafe nook in the Wheeler Hotel which we all agreed had the best french toast we've ever had. Hands down.

is this not a GREAT eating picture?

Then our plan was to spend the rest of the day at the beach. Hiking, beach combing, playing soccer, rolling down sand hills, playing tag, etc. We arrived at the beach parking lot to overcast skies, but nothing terribly daunting. Then we climbed over the sand dunes to the actual beach...

boys bundled up

Ollie safely tucked in under my rain jacket

...and we got blasted:

BLASTED:

BLaStEd by wind:

the winds were 40-50 mph, with gusts up to 70 mph!

And if you've ever been to the beach or another sandy place while the wind is blowing, you'll know how much that can hurt!

But it's also very fun to feel like to can lean back into the wind and not fall down...unless you're Toby. Then it's very scary because the wind might blow you away!

But the wind/sand combination is also very picturesque:

its a VERY quick run down the beach with THAT wind at your back

Then there was poor Toby who only wanted to play soccer on the beach...


...but of course his ball rolled away before he could even kick it. It rolled right into the ocean. He was hysterical! Until Brent ran against the wind to the rescue! Whew!