Annual Coast Trip

I’ve put off posting about our trip to the coast with my family because we have so many pictures and it was hard to choose. Rather than telling you about what we did, I’ll just put captions under the pictures. It was so much fun - I loved being with all my family and being able to just hang out and relax on the beach all day!

We had a picnic lunch at the “Trees of Mystery” in Crescent City, where they have this giant Paul Bunyon that moves his head and waves and talks to the kids. I included the last picture so you could get an idea of how big he really is.

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Bennett loved sitting in the little kid camping chairs, although he did fall face first into the dirt about 10 minutes after we got to the campground. Fortunately, it didn’t prevent him from enjoying the little chairs the rest of the weekend. The second and third pictures are from our traditional walk down to the beach to see the sunset – and Nate and Camille on top of the rock they climbed up.

more from the sunset…

We weren’t sure how Bennett would do in the sand, since he usually doesn’t like his hands to be dirty, but he loved it, and sat for a long time filling up buckets

Bennett taking a nap with grandma, and the giant sandcastle

The view from our spot on the beach, and naptime for the littlest kids (with Kallie just being cute in the middle)

Landon buried standing up, and I love this shot Stacey took of Nate and Bennett with their arms around each other, watching the waves. Bennett actually seemed to like getting his feet in the water, although it was freezing cold.

My brother Dave had a huge tarp that the men spent a significant portion of the morning setting up with driftwood so we’d have a nice wind-free spot by the rock to hang out in. We had quite the set-up with our tarp shelter and all the chairs, gear, etc. for us and the kids

And finally, a family portrait. Bennett realized we were all wearing hats and wanted to switch them around – he wanted to wear Nate’s hat, then put my hat on Nate so we were all rotated.

We can’t wait to go back next year!