Monday, April 23, 2012

Beach Fun For Easter

We were invited to meet up with friends for a fun day on the beach the day before Easter. First we met at Tillamook Cheese Factory. Before we found our friends and ate lunch together at the factory, we hit the Tillamook bus...
Avery, Carson, Emmett
Avery, Carson, Emmett

And the farmer and the cow...
Carson, Avery
Avery, Emmett

And watched them make cheese in the factory...
Avery, Emmett, Travis

Big blocks of cheese there.
Tillamoook factory

And some of the boys found the bus again before we left for the beach.
Tillamoook bus

We went to Oceanside and it was a beautiful day!
Oceanside Beach

Avery, Carson

What is it with kids and throwing rocks in the water... or maybe it's just my kid.
Avery, Carson

There were a LOT of flies on the beach that day. Emmett was not a fan.
Travis, Emmett

Carson loved the dog of one of our friends there. Emmett steered clear.
Carson

Carson

Avery, Carson

Avery likes to dig trenches and fill them with water... and then gets frustrated that the water always disappears.
Avery, Carson, Daniel

Then it was time to set up the Easter eggs! This beach has a cool feature where the rock point that juts out into the water has had a tunnel blasted through it to the beach on the other side. So while the men watched the kids, we hauled the eggs through the tunnel to the other side and set them up. The other side was really rocky with lots of log debris which was great for hiding eggs.
beach Easter egg hunt

It's hard to see, but there's a blue egg on the rock wall in the upper right corner of this picture. There were something like 300 eggs, so there was a long stretch of them!
beach Easter egg hunt

beach Easter egg hunt

The kids are ready! All those boys and just the one girl.
kids

Go!
Carson, Emmett

Carson, Avery, Emmett

Carson

The lovely Laura on the left who invited us.
Emmett, Travis

Avery

Avery

Avery, Emmett, Travis

With all those eggs, all the kids got a great haul! Carson found one of the three $5 bills available!

Then we went back to the other side for more beach fun.
Avery

Emmett

Flies on the castle
sand castle

Emmett

Flies on Emmett... Flies everywhere!
Emmett

Avery

Who wouldn't like a hole to lay in?
Emmett

Carson (and Avery) like to pretend to be dogs on the beach.
Carson

Carson found the hole too.
Carson

What a great day at the beach! I'm so glad we could have such fun with friends and that they invited us along! After we left the beach we made another stop that I'll post about next.
Oceanside Beach

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