olive got a bunny (and other fun things since we got back)

olive picked a ring pop from the bishop for her birthday treat

 jude had his nine month check up

he's super healthy and right on target except for communication

but the day after his appointment he became a chatterbox so i guess there's nothing to worry about

 eleanor is a ray of sunshine

 noah's sweet to let them help with the lawn when they want to for a minute

 jude loves food

 foot long hot dogs

 olive's birthday present was this bunny she picked out

she named her daffodil and we all love her

 we had a fun day at the park with a girl i used to know growing up

 free chick fil a for dressing like a cow

 teaching daffodil to ride a scooter

 we love it when we have the pool to ourselves

 eleanor wrote the whole alphabet

 eleanor took like 200 pictures while i was coloring and cutting jenni's hair

that was a fun surprise to find later ;) 

sink bath!

 happy baby

driving home from the oregon coast

after a week away from home 

we used saturday to travel back

with a quick (ish) pitstop at ikea in portland

 the girls all went in the play land so we took the boys shopping 

 we stopped in hermiston

for a slurpee

 and pizza

another pitstop at deadman's pass

this trip made me even more grateful for michael

to ponder the 10 years we've been married

and the 14 since i got married before, how much life has changed since then

the relationship we have, the one he has with our children

and how easy going he was traveling with 6 kids for 7 days 

which wasn't all sunshine and lollipops but he's always up for anything

and so sweet and helpful

love you, babe

cannon beach and seaside

 friday we spent the day at cannon beach and seaside

we started with (second) breakfast from the cannon beach bakery

 then we hit the beach and i showed them haystack rock 

 pretty awesome to bring my 6 kids and amazing husband to the beach 

i got married on just before my 18th birthday 

 best husband in the world

i'm so happy with how life turned out

 we love any chance to play in the water and sand

 she loves being buried 

 happy boy

 mermaid eleanor

 hazel loved collecting seashells

 noah could have stayed in the water all day

michael builds the best sand castles

the kids love helping and decorating 

 haystack rock

 we headed to seaside around lunch time

first things first, we took the kids to the carousel

it was jude's first time 

 we ate lunch at bee bop burgers

 then we got ice cream

all of the kids wanted bubble gum!

 just like their mama

 swings on the beach are a pretty great idea

 we took the kids to the arcade for a few games 

 and stopped by the candy shop

 that evening we went to sunset beach one more time

jude made the beach much trickier than i realized he would

since he can crawl off the blanket and grab handfulls of sand to eat

but it was still fun  

 eleanor's hair really likes the oregon coast

she needs more moisture for her hair than idaho has to offer 

 the kids had a lot of fun playing in the backyard of our rental that evening

 a board game with their dad

luckily henry woke jude up (i wouldn't normally say this) because we were able to go see 

the peter iredale shipwreck at sunset on our last evening on the coast

it was beautiful

and really neat

it was a beautiful evening

and an amazing couple days at the ocean as a family