Spring Break

Hooray for Spring Break! We went on a fabulous vacation with Doug's family and stayed in a beach house in Lincoln City. We had gorgeous views of the beach from our windows and you could hear the waves crashing as soon as you opened the front door. It was absolutely beautiful. We had a blast playing on the beach, flying kites, looking in tide pools, watching Juliann try to eat sand, and playing Wii games with four people. The weather was unbelievable. We had three straight days of gorgeous weather, which is pretty much unheard of in Oregon.

Some things we learned about Juliann: She loves eating fish, she started actually crawling now and then, she stood up on her own more than she ever had before, she loves her Grandma Mitchell, she loves strawberries and cantaloupe, she loves eating sand, and she will swallow her hair rubberband if she's able to pull it out when no one's looking.

On the way back, we stopped at Depoe Bay at a whale watching station. It had big windows and binoculars for you to stare out in the ocean and try to spot whales spouting or breeching. We didn't see any, but I guess they had seen about 70 a couple days before. We ate lunch at Gracie's Sea Hag across the street and laughed at Juliann putting a lemon in her mouth over and over. Don't you just love spring break?


Here are some pictures of our adventures. The star fish is a real one. It was pretty heavy and it had sick little sucker things all over underneath it and was attached to Juliann's pants when we tried to take it off. It was disgusting. But it looks cool from far away.