January Beach Trip

Since we didn't take a family summer beach trip last year, and with the recent return of the two missionaries, we all headed out to the beach house for the extended MLK Jr. weekend. I had been to the beach the previous weekend with the Young Men to do an annual planning retreat and decided then and there that I needed to buy a surfboard. I haven't owned one since my board fell apart back in the summer of 2003, right before the mission. I found a great one on Craigslist and bought it that week.

Bobby a little hesitant...

...but it didn't take too long before he was nose riding on the short board.

We made it to the beach house and all Will wanted to do was sleep on Debra. She was in heaven.

Bobby just wanted to help Jimmy clean the walls.

Sea Lion alert, can you see him?

What about in his picture?

That was hail coming in.

You better run

I was so much better at hide and seek in my day than any of these kids ever will be.

Bobby and Aurora went into our bedroom to watch Tangled and this happened about 15 minutes later.

Michael got to experience the Donkin mania. He missed the wedding so I don't think he had ever hung out with the whole clan.

They were probably sharing tracting stories.

This started out as a nice little hike, until it became a lot longer than planned and started snowing. Always an adventure with Reg!

The beach got quite a bit of snow the last two days. Michael and Jeri took off a day before and actually slide off the highway on the way back to Portland. Nothing too major happened, they just had to wait for the snow plow.

All of the kids loved it though. They made snowmen and threw snow balls at each other.