Bear Clan: July 2009

anyone about to look at these next post's will want to scroll down and start with the post titled Oregon Part 1 then scroll up one post at a time from there!

Oregon Part 4 (shopping)

You will notice that here are no pictures to go along with this post. That is because I forgot to take some, but I wanted to write about it anyway, because it was so fun! Janet had this great idea that the girls should stay behind a few extra hours and go to the outlet shops near Newport. The boys took one car and went back to Silver Lake. Janet, Raven, Claire, and I took our car. We had a girls shopping day. It was so fun! I would have to say the trip home was the most fun. We listened to music and sang our hearts out most of the way back! It was a great end to our vacation in Oregon. Thanks Nat And Jan so much for everything! Next time...VEGAS BABY!

Oregon Part 4 (the lighthouse)

Anyone who know's my Husband well, know's that he loves lighthouses! When he found out here was a light house in Newport there was no way he was going to pass it up!

Here is a Picture of Kevin near the top of the lighthouse.

Here are the stairs from the top. There were a lot of staires to climb.

Claire was too young to go up so here is a pic of her and I waiting at the bottom while Pat and Kev went up. (I went up alone after they came back down)

Oregon Part 3 1/2 (Claires fit)

Having technical difficulties. Will post video clip as soon as I can!

Oregon Part 3 (the beach)

The beach was a good and bad experience depending on who and where you were. Kevin loved every part of it!

Janet, Raven, and I had fun playing with the anemone's (is that how you spell it?). They were sticky to the touch and would close in around your finger. They were cool!

Claire hated every minute of it! The closer we got to the water the colder and more windy it got. She didn't like the cold, but she really didn't like the wind. (watch the video above this post to see just how much she hated it!)

There was this grogeous waterfall right on the beach. I made Jan and Nat pose for a picture by it!

Oregon Part 2 (crabbing)

Here is a picture of Nat, Patrick, and the boys on the crabbing docks getting ready to crab.

Here is a crab we caught.

While we were crabbing there was another guy on the docks with us who caught a starfish. He thought the kids would like to look at it before he threw it back in. Just a fun fact that Raven shared with me, I guess if you cut a starfish in half it won't die. Both halves will regenerate to make two new starfish!

The end result of our crabbing experience! cooking and eating the crab! Yummy!

Oregon Part 1 (Arrival)

We recently took a trip to Oregon to visit Janet and Nat. They really wanted us to experience Oregon, because it's the best, THE BEST! (right Nat?). Here we are when we first arrived at the Awesome place Jan and Nat were kind enough to set up and pay for us! (thanks again guys). As soon as we got there we all got dressed to go swimming, which is why I'm dressed like this. I don't normally strut around dressed like this, but I do strut! Hehe.