Beach Trip/Grimmett Reunion Part 1

Last week was our somewhat annual beach trip to the Oregon Coast. Once every 1 or 2 years, Kevin's very awesome grandma rents a beach house on the Oregon coast for 5 days and we all get together. We always look forward to this and especially now we have kids with cousins, it is really fun to get everyone together. Kevin and I haven't been able to go together to it since Isak was a baby so it was really nice to have an extra set of hands to help and have a little vacation time. Warning, there are tons of pictures...anyone who isn't directly related, feel free to skip whatever. If you are family, you are required to ohh and aww over each photo and admire the adorable children in the pictures. We had suprisingly good weather while we were there. I think the kids and I made it out to the beach at least once a day and I managed to keep Isak from drowning himself in the ocean. Lucy wasn't a big fan of the cold water but did enjoy playing in the sand.

Kevin's cousin Roxanne was nice enough to teach Isak how to fly a kite. He thought this was awesome and I was thankful that he didn't let go and lose her kite!

My kids were off their schedules, of course, so they were a little cranky. Isak smiled for me in a few pictures, but mostly didn't want anything to do with the camera.

Isak even played with Lucy in the sand and shared his shovels. Nevermind the fact that mostly they just threw sand at each other, I still consider this progress.

Lucy rediscovered her love of watermelon with her cousin Claire and made scary faces.

Isak practiced his photography skills and took a few pictures of his own. Above, Aunt Lori and

Roxanne.

He took a nice shot of me holding a sleeping Lucy, and below, this is a self portrait. Pretty disturbing if you ask me.

Lucy sported her crazy pigtails.
There is an awesome city park in Lincoln City called Regatta Park that has a huge wooden castle play area and little swim beach. Its perfect for the kids, away from the wind and very shallow. It was very warm and they loved playing the water.We were successful in building a small sand castle and Isak found a large pole from one of our umbrellas. He walked around with it yelling that he was going to kill the fish with his bow and arrow.Yes, that's my son.