Monday, April 25, 2016

Our annual post tax season vacation...


The last few years we have taken a vacation as soon as tax season is over. We so look forward to it! I want to go back to it!

We finally made it to the redwoods! Oak loves bears.


Hi there Paul!



HUGE!!



The tram is new since the last time I was there, way before I was married. It was fun!


At the top of where the tram takes you. 


Excuse my fake looking smile. One week post surgery and my jaw was still out of wack. No matter how hard I tried my smiles looked fake. 


Oak loved the tram. 






My parents lived in Klamath when the first couple of years of their marriage. However the Klamath we went to wasn't the original Klamath because the original Klamath was washed away in a flood when my parents lived there. It was much smaller than I anticipated. 


We stayed the night in Klamath and found a beach to walk before dinner. 



The kids looked so cute with their backpacks and suitcases. 


After the redwoods we drove up the coast to Bandon. We stopped at the cheese factory/creamery and watched them make squeaky cheese. 


And of course we had to get ice cream. 



Then we headed to the beach in Bandon. It was SOOOO windy. But we found a little cove that protected us a bit and at least it was warm. 


Aren't they the cutest!? Everyone of facebook kept on saying how much they look like twins in this picture. 


Oak loved the beach. 








Then we stopped to see Hubs's grandma and grandpa before heading to our families lake house. 


We were going to roasts marshmallows but it started raining right after we got there so we watched a movie and made brownies instead. 


We only stopped at the lakehouse to stay the night and the next morning we headed to my in-laws to drop the kids off so Hubs and I could leave on a two night getaway to celebrate our anniversary. 


After dropping the kids off we headed back to the coast and the weather was beautiful. Hubs and I sat out and just watched the ocean before heading to dinner. The next day it rained and was so stormy and nasty and we just went to the outlet mall and then we just ate chips and layed on the bed and watched movies and tv. It was actually so relaxing. We stayed someplace we had never stayed before and we loved it. 


15 years married to this handsome guy! Man I love him! He is the best and I love being with him. 


Meanwhile the kids had a blast with grandma and grandpa hiking in the rain. 



She found these glasses at grandma's and she loved them. 


They are the best in-laws!


We finally came home and the kids went straight to playing legos. 

Sunday, April 24, 2016

running away, Gloria and going to the movies...

This is kind of short post because part of our week was our vacation and I want to do a separate post for that. 


I was helping Mac clean his room and found a bag of shorts I bought for Mac at the end of last summer for $2 a piece. So excited that he is set for the summer. 


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Mad that I won't help him empty the dishwasher because I was busy getting some other house work done and he is completely capable of doing it on his own. He cried about it for about half an hour before he...


Ran away because I wouldn't help him with the dishwasher. I just let him and watched him from behind a vehicle so he didn't see me. He walked about a quarter mile and turned around. He said his "feet hurt". 


It was a beautiful day and the kids had a picnic for lunch. The two extra kids is the little girl I babysit and the little girl our neighbor babysits. 


Our cute little bantam Gloria. She is so adorable. 



Gloria pooped on Oak. 


Playing at the park. 


We ended up going to see Jungle book and it was so good. We loved it. Poor Oak started not feeling well and ended up going home and throwing up. 


Mac painting his pine wood derby car. 


We needed to get rid of this dead tree in front of our house. The problem was that if it fell the wrong way it would fall onto some power lines. So we tied the top of the tree to the back of my dad's truck and after Hubs used the chainsaw on the tree I got to pull it down with the truck. 

 

I thought it was hilarious that the kids accidentally got suckers at the bank that matched their pants and shorts. 


Apparently I am allergic to amoxacillan. It was preventative and I was on day eight of ten so I just stopped taking it. I won't be taking that again.