July 19

Hi, sorry for the absence

it got a little busy around here.

heck you haven't seen my garden in months!

it's to bad, i ate my first harvest today, a handful of the best beans I've ever had!

We've been busy doing this:

Lots of walks!

Taking the pups in the water for the first time, getting attacked by mosquitos

We've been picnicing, reading books in the shade, napping here and there.

And renovating all at the same time.

Hope the rest of the summer is this good!

Day two Portland to Yachats

We started the morning looking for breakfast in portland


and we found it! Stuffed waffles!
Steph had nutella and strawberried and I had crunchy pb and nutella.

of course we washed it down with stumptown

before we left we stopped quickly at dynamo dounuts. Mine was toasted coconut

We hardly fit all our stuff into the elevator!

but on our way out we made a stop at target

so then the car looked like this


we stopped on the way for cheries and strawberries

we drove for a while before we made it to tilamook




we drove for a while longer

and then we founds reads homemade candy


they make homemade saltwater taffy





we went to Hecta Head lighthouse, it was really neat

here is a shot of natasha's cankle day two

we went for dinner in town and listened to some music.
here is natasha cleaning the stains off steph's coat


this is where the cherries attacked me

we stayed at this really cute place with a really short shower head




we played on the beach outside our hotel after dinner, where it was very stormy and wet.

Day 1 Chilliwack to Portland

5:45 am Chilliwack, we all look very alert.

Seattle can be quite confusing, the i-5 splits and then links back up 5 miles later

This is a shot of the back seat in the car on the first afternoon


this is our first coffee run on the trip

and then we made it to portland!







we had coffee at the pearl bakery

where we had this delicious concoction or croissants made into a french toast

they had great coffee as well

tasha's cankle day one

of course we went outlet shopping