Vacation is Over!

Well, it seems as if I have been gone so much since our trip to California in May. In June, I spent a few days visiting my friend Dawn at her home in Houston. That was such an enjoyable trip as I was able to go by myself and spend time with her and her husband Daniel. We shopped until we dropped- or at least Dawn did. :) And this month the three girls and I traveled with family to see Aunt Mindy. Chris didn't make the trip with us as it was a trip for all the daughters and daughter-in-laws and the kids.

This was Brooke's first plane ride and Ashlyn's second - although, she looked at it as a first since she was only 5 weeks old when she flew before. You can see that they did pretty good on the flight. We had a few moments of craziness, but overall, the girls did so well on the plane.








Once we got to Portland, we drove to our beach house in Seaside, OR. It was so pretty to be staying right on the coast. We had such a beautiful view, the only bad part was that the water was so cold that we couldn't really get in it too much. Some of my older nieces and nephews spent lots of time on the beach digging up sand dollars and seashells. They even caught two crabs, but unfortunately they died before we could eat them.





One "hiccup" in the trip was the evening that Brooke tripped on the concrete. I felt so bad as it was somewhat my fault. She had a zip-up jacket on that I hadn't zipped up, therefore, when she tripped the coat had fallen around the crease of her elbow not allowing her to catch her fall with her hands - and instead with her mouth. She litterly hit the ground directly with her mouth and WOW, was there a lot of blood. Good think Aunt Theresa was there - she's a nurse and helped us get the bleeding stopped. Luckily, she just cut the inside of her lip with her teeth and NO teeth were knocked out! However, she had a pretty fat lip for a few days!





Overall, our trip to Oregon was a nice and enjoyable trip. We had fun spending time with family, especially Aunt Mindy and Uncle Michael, who we don't see very often. However, we were ready to be home after seven days - we missed Daddy very much!!!

Below are some more pics from the trip.