Vacation is Over

Vacation is over. Mike is back to work tonight after 2 glorious weeks of being able to sleep during the night. Or sleep as much as our kiddos allow us to. But this week is a 3 night work week for him. Then, starting next Wednesday, we get to move!!! Lucky us. But it's only 1/2 mile away and it's a 1-story ranch house. No more cursed stairs. And it's really close to the park so we'll be able to go play more often. But it still is moving and moving sucks. And this will be move #5 for Mike and me since summer of 2005. But move #6 will be into our own house in a year - 18 months....we hope.

We had a great time at the beach. Our resort was fantastic. We had a 3 bedroom presidential penthouse suite so plenty of room for us all. Five days was just long enough. It was so nice to be ready to go home the next morning as we enjoyed the last night there. The weather was great for the beach. Not rainy, but most days were overcast until the afternoon. Then it was in the 60s, maybe very low 70s.

Here's a few of the pictures I took. We didn't do much. Mom, Maemae and I went to a quilt shop in Long Beach, a shop in Astoria, and hit the Fred Meyers in Warrenton. And we went back to the quilt shop in Long Beach on Sunday to get the few things we should of grabbed on Friday. And we went out to dinner at a pretty good, but busy and short-handed restaurant. Dad took Peanut, Mike and me for a drive on the beach in the Bronco. We saw a dead seal washed up on the beach and did a few cookies. And we walked a few blocks down the road for ice cream. Mike, Dad and Peanut checked out the very small gun show on Sunday in Astoria. And that's all the going places we did. All the other time we watched movies, napped, and hung out relaxing. And we think we're probably going to do the same thing next year with maybe a little more playing on the beach in there.

On the Astoria side.

Going down the roller coaster bouncy portion of the bridge.

Dad entertaining Maemae while we got settled.

The most beautiful mermaid and handsomest shark ever.

How Peanut likes to play in the sand.
Maemae's first beach experience. She wasn't impressed. In fact, she was asleep before we even started walking in the sand.

Our family portrait.

Daddy's girl.

The resort. Our suite was the top left one. Looking at the windows - Left one was Mom and Dad's bedroom, then balcony off the dining room, then the living room small window, then Peanut's room, then our room. And our balcony had a hot tub where Mike had a 104 degree bubble bath thanks to previous occupants.
Mom got this one for me. Each night during the sunset, I was bathing and put a kiddo to bed so I missed them all.

That's all. Both my kiddos are asleep and laundy doesn't fold itself.
TTFN ~ Crys