You already saw Paisli's pirate look. Now here's the start of a smile,
and a couple of silly faces.
Like father like daughter, with that tongue sticking out for pictures.
This house we've been staying at in Bandon is pretty nice, compared to squishing everyone into our 400 sq ft apartment. If you're not familiar with Bandon, it's a quaint little town on the Oregon coast...a tourist trap. It's only 30 minutes from my house. This house has a view of the harbor and a little bit of the ocean, and we can watch seals and sea lions play in the water and watch the tide rise and fall. The weather has been cruddy this week with the rain and all, and I've been fighting laryngitis or something that makes my voice all low and cracky, with a cough and congestion, but other than that, it's been great fun to just laze about a bigger place and go on walks and visit the ocean.
Here are Talea, Braxton and Hyatt throwing rocks into the harbor.
My parents and the twins came up on Thursday night and stayed until Sunday afternoon, so they got to stay at the beach house too.
We went down to the harbor where Maren collected rocks,
Talea collected shells,
Hyatt and Braxton threw rocks into the water,
Kiersa attempted to eat every rock on the shore,
and Paisli and Jaiden just sat around.
John was there too,
As well as Weston
and Dallas.
Hyrum stayed at the house to catch up on sleep after a rough night with crying babies.
At low tide, we went down to one of the beaches and looked for starfish and creatures in the tide pools.
Paisli's first visit to the ocean was at 9 days old. Not too many babies get to do that.
On Sunday afternoon, Hyrum's mom and her husband (Nana and Hapa) arrived and they'll be here until this weekend. Elisabeth will be joining us on Thursday.
Kiersa LOVES her Nana like Tilly adores her Grammie!
Poor Hyrum is running ragged at work since he's fallen behind after all the action (meetings in Portland, Paisli's birth, mommy and baby health problems and scares, doctor visits, family in town, etc). I've been away from work for a couple of weeks and will now be gone another couple of weeks still, so it's up to Hyrum to do EVERYTHING again. John's been helpful in watching the shop when Hyrum has to take off to job sites or take me to doctors, but he's still running like crazy and feeling like not much is actually getting accomplished. He's amazing in my eyes to take on so much at work and still give so much at home. I'm a lucky wife! He never complains about family stuff taking up too much time, though I know it is right now. Hopefully after this weekend things will get back to normal-ish and after a couple of weeks I can come back and help him so he's not so swamped. At least business isn't dead! We're grateful for that. We need more business actually, then things won't be so stressful.
In the meantime, we're soaking up family time with Utah relatives that we don't see near enough. It's great to have visitors, because it's rare that anyone aside from Nana and Hapa can make the trip. We love it, and welcome all family and friends to come see us, especially once the house is done.
Oh, house update...
The electrical is almost complete, thanks to John, the plumbing is roughed in, we bought a clawfoot tub for the master bath, the mechanical (heat & A/C) will go in shortly, then we're ready for insulation and sheetrock. After that, it's paint, flooring, cabinetry and move-in! Oh, we have to get siding on the exterior soon, then paint it. The deck and yard will have to wait.
It's so close, I can taste it!
3 comments:
Where did you find that car fleece Boston would flip!
Nice to see mom, dad and the boys. It looks like you guys had a lot of fun.
Well when the house is done we will have to make a trip up to Oregon. We love the coast and would love to take the girls there again.
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