Youth Beach Trip

The morning after our Gender Reveal Party (see post below) we got to go to the beach with the youth from Church. Max needed to go as a leader so the rest of us tagged along. I also invited Elizabeth because she came in town for our party and we wanted to have more cousin time. Elizabeth ended up inviting 2 of my cousins and their families so it ended up being a family beach party as well. Max invited his cousin Jordan too who is the same age as many of the other youth. Anyway, a day at the beach in perfect weather is always a good time. We got there and the boys quickly "helped" the Bishop put up his volleyball net.

 The youth got right to work putting together the ultimate sand castle.

I chased around these little monkeys. 

 Running around with cousins.

Max and Jordan. 

 Youth group photo (at least some of them) with their sand castle while it was in progress.

  

Kaden, Gwenevere, and Lexi making their own sand castle. 

We had BBQ hot dogs and played volleyball and hiked up the huge dune. It would have been very hard to climb the huge dune with my camera but I wish I had. It is so gorgeous from the top with so many photo opportunities. We hiked with the boys. Max carried Miles for part of the climb and Charlie went on my back as I crawled up part of it. I think Charlie was bothered by how hot the sand was (or maybe the steepness) because he wanted a million brakes, but we eventually made it.  I'm bringing my camera next time for sure...and maybe leaving the kids behind...and hopefully the next time, I won't be pregnant.

The rest of the time we spent playing with cousins and swimming and digging in the small side water hole. And i didn't take many pictures, except for when Miles and Levi were bonding over volleyballs.

After some good fun in the sun, we said goodbye to our cousins and made our way with the youth to the Tillamook Cheese factory. We enjoyed some good ice cream and cheese samples, then made our way home. We all had some pretty intense sunburns too, who knew you could get a sunburn in Oregon in September?