The Beal/Cannon Family: Oregon Coast

What a week! We had a great time at the Oregon coast this past week. We planned this trip with our friends back in early June I believe. It was kind of hard to plan a trip with covid because we weren't sure what would happen. Luckily we were able to go! The only bad part about covid for our trip was it closed the community pool our beach house had access to. That was a bummer but not that big of a deal because the kids played on the beach for hours each day. Before our trip I was able to completely finish the house section I was working on. I couldn't believe it! I was so excited to finish another section. I will start on the next section tomorrow. I'm hoping I can finish the front in the next week or so. It's looking so much better! I'm really happy so far.

Tuesday was as busy day. I cooked all my meals for the trip and worked at Target and then came home and finished packing. We got up early Wednesday and left the house around 6am. We caravaned with the Millers. We stopped for lunch and then again in Portland. Kimberly's dad lives in Portland so we stopped and visited with him at a park for awhile. Poor Ryan got stung a few times by a wasp. I hate wasps! Luckily Kimberly, the prepared mom had some bandaids. Ryan is big on the power of the belief of bandaids. We got to the beach house in Lincoln City around 4:45 and check in was 4:30, pretty good! We just chilled for awhile and enjoyed the house. After dinner we walked down to the beach. The neighborhood we were staying in was so adorable. I'm obsessed! Almost everyone got in the ocean that night but me. It was freezing. No way. Ryan was already in his jammies and they were soaking wet by the time we left.

On Thursday after breakfast we packed up a lunch and all of our things and headed down to the beach. We stayed there most of the day. The weather was perfect that day! The kids had so much fun. On Friday most of us headed down the road 20 minutes to check out Depot Bay. It's a cute little town with fun souvenir shops. We got some souvenirs, caramel popcorn, and clam chowder. I loved it. After lunch we headed down to the beach again for most of the day. We packed dinner down to the beach. It was windy and cooloer on Thursday but that didn't stop the kids from playing for hours. At about 8:00 when just a few kids were still in the ocean we decided time was up. I was standing on the beach with my warm leggings, pullover shirt, and jacket and was freezing. Those kids were nuts! We called it and made them come home. Saturday morning we got packed up and headed home. It was such a great trip. It was maybe a little short but better to leave wanting more I say. The house was perfect! It had a hot tub and two family rooms with TV's. It was so fun! I hope to go back again soon. I just love the Oregon coast. We had the best time.

We almost had one tragedy. I brought my jean blanket down to the beach for us to sit on and through missteps it got left on the sidewalk all night! We didn't know it had gotten left until the next day. I was really sad of the thought of it being gone. I'd wanted a jean blanket forever and finally made one and have good memories of piecing the top with my friend Rachel and tying the top with my mom and sister. Luckily when we came back to the road it was still sitting on the side walk. Praise be! I was so happy. I would have been really sad to have lost that quilt. Phew!

Now it's back to reality. I need to start figuring out some home school stuff. So far they have me scheduled about 24 hours a week at Target which is perfect. They also have me working 4-5 hour shifts as well. I like that a lot. 8 hour shifts are tough. Well that's all.