Sunset Beach

 Yesterday we wanted to take Taran to the beach to get IN the water this time. Sunset is a calmer beach (almost looks like a lake) and is a bit more protected from the wind because it is surrounded by cliff walls. When we gathering our gumption to go to the beach my friend texted us to say they were heading to the beach too! So we met up and sat and chatted while the kids played. 

Brent carried Taran all the way out into the water on his back which Taran loved and kept laughing about how cold his feet were. 

I neglected to get the camera out until the end so there aren't very many. Guess I was having too good of a time talking!

Griz loved the gross green sea weed type of stuff.

Ocean Fun in Bandon

 We had thought about taking the kids and Taran to San Fransisco for our last week of no work.  We couldn't make it work affordably so we decided to stick at home and enjoy the beauty right here in our own neighborhood.  We spent one of our days down in Bandon.  Just love the view down there.  The rocks are so interesting!  Who needs a crowded busy city when you've got this, right!?

We were focused on Taran when all the sudden we looked up and Griz was at the top of a really high cliff.  The picture below doesn't show how high he was, it was high enough that it made our hearts stop a bit. We both kept calm and encouraged him back down.  I was really surprised he didn't freak out, he has recently had some fears of heights but luckily he kept his head! 

Sanna was barefoot trying to get really high too.  We stopped her luckily before she had gotten too far.  They had a lot of fun playing on these rocks.

This next pic of Sanna cracks me up.  I can see this look of fear on her face, I think she got caught by surprise by a wave coming in.  It was so funny.

 It's hard for Taran to walk on the beach so luckily Brent obliged him with quite a few piggy back rides.

 In fact he gave him a piggy back ride all the way up ALL of those stairs...

"Did you see that lake today? Talk about blue"

Crater Lake, a really pretty lake... we wish we had known the trails throughout the perimeter of the lake were all closed due to huge volumes of snow.  I guess they don't open it up until sometime in July... wish we had waited to go on that long drive to see it until then.  Oh well!  Still gorgeous! 

And boy did the kids (and Brent) have fun playing in the snow! I have a video of him sliding down on his chest with Sanna on his back.  It was hilarious.

Brent wanted to take pictures later when the sun was setting so we decided to go get a bite to eat and maybe see Klamath Falls. We figured there must be some pretty cool falls for it to be called Klamath Falls.  It was a little further than we anticipated and... yeah, there were no falls.   They really should think about changing the name of their town to just Klamath.  At least we got to eat at a really good pizza place which also took longer than we anticipated.  We weren't sure we'd make it back in time for any good pictures of Crater Lake at sunset.  Brent did a pretty good job I think despite us being about 15 minutes later than we really would have liked....

Sunset Beach

We got a random text from my Aunt Luann letting us know she and Paul wanted to come visit us because they were out (sorta) our way at the Redwoods.  We met them at the beach and had a really great time visiting with them.  After they left we stayed even longer and all got crispy in the beautiful bright sunlight that wasn't that hot but still full of UV rays.  Oops.

This kite and that length of string is all we have left from our fun time we had with the Morgan's at their cabin.

We like going out for drives... a lot.  It is always so beautiful.  I love it when we actually have our camera with us for a nice scene...