Camping with the Forreys

We were able to go to Fort Stevens State Park and Seaside, OR for a weekend camping with the Forreys. We love getting together with the Forreys. The kids all loved playing games with Brandon and the "pow wow glove." He is a good sport for hanging out with the kids while we cleaned up or were getting ready for our next adventure.

The next afternoon we headed to Seaside. We hit up an antique car show and the beach. The weather was perfect. I am used to the Washington beaches where sweatshirts are always a good idea and this weekend we were shedding our layers.

Sam, Maci and Jacob were having fun running in the shallow water. I saw a wave take out Maci and then proceeded to knock over Sam and Jacob and roll them up the beach. The kids came out of the water looking like this...

They didn't really have any interest to go back into the water again. In fact, later a wave came up the beach surprisingly fast, getting a lot of people's stuff wet. It didn't reach where we were headquartered, but came up so fast and far that we were all talking about it. Sam freaked out, yelled he couldn't find his monster truck, grabbed whatever toys he could and took off up to the boardwalk. Can we say traumatized? Dramatic?

I love camping food. S'mores galore, sausage and bisquits on a stick, dutch oven chicken and rice and omelets in a bag. And for Jackson everything was seasoned with sand.

You know you are tuckered out when you can sleep through screaming kids, cars driving by and general commotion. Especially when your bed gets picked up and moved ten feet and you wake up one hour later.

Looking forward to next year.