12 Years!

It's official, Dale and I have been married a dozen years as of Monday August 4th. It's been a great 12 years and I look forward to a few dozen more. We have been so blessed with everything in our lives including our kiddos, home, other family and friends. To celebrate, we got away for the weekend to the OR coast while Grandma Judi watched the kids. It was so wonderful and relaxing. While windy, as expected, the weather was beautiful with tons of sunshine. We stayed in a bed and breakfast with a view of the ocean. We pretty much didn't do much of anything. We, of course, walked along the beach and looked in the shops in Newport even though we've been in them all many times before. We did discover a section of town (Nye Beach) we had never been too before with a lot of cute shops--at least to me. I'm sure Dale didn't care much about most of them, but he is a good sport to go into most of them with me. We also headed a little south of Newport to Seal Rock where there is a nice beach that is somewhat shielded by the wind, so we just sat and relaxed and read on the beach for quite awhile. There is also a neat little slot between two big rocks where the waves come in and then as the water runs out, you hear all the pebbles rolling around. It's the greatest sound. Last time we were there, we hung out in that slot for awhile, but it was a bit of a windtunnel on Saturday, so we didn't stay in there too long. We also visited a glass blowing shop and watched a guy do some glass blowing. I wanted to have a custom vase made while we watched, but there was too long a line, so we settled on buying a premade vase. I really want to start collecting blown glass, which probably isn't the best collection to have with 3 young kids, but I guess we want to live on the edge. Right before heading home, we went to Depot Bay and walked along the sea wall and visited some of the shops. It's not as nice a town as Newport, but we did see gray whales just off the shore--you pretty much just see the blow hole spray and a little of the back. There were quite a few of them out there.

View from the deck at the B&B

The slot at Seal Rock

Relaxin' on the beach at Seal Rock


Sunset from the B&B

The happy couple