Happy 4th of July

We went to Seaside, OR for the 4th of July. We took three days to get up there so we could take our time. Our first day we stopped at Twin Falls. These are the Shoshone Falls. They were really pretty.

We slept in Boise that night and then headed for Portland the next day. We were about an hour out of Portland and everybody was starving and I really didn't want to do fast food so I asked if we could go to a restraunt, bad idea. When you're out in the middle of no where don't stop at the restraunt it was way gross, but it did have pretty views of the Columbia River.

We slept in Portland that night and then the next day we went to the Children's Museum. It was so cute. The kids had a blast.

After the museum we drove to Seaside and got settled into the house. The next day we went to see some Lighthouses. We were trying to get a family picture but Bella was mad and she's a little to far right and didn't make the photo. Honestly would you have noticed we were missing a kid if I hadn't told you?

This is us at one of the lighthouses.

For all you Goonies fans, does this place look familiar??

There were lots of little rides around Joshua was way happy that I was putting him on this one. He cried until they started the ride and then he loved it and cried when he had to get off. Johnny and the big kids got to ride the tilt a whirl.

On the 4th some of our family rode horse back on the beach, since we weren't able to do that we rode in a carriage it was a lot of fun. The guy let Ethan ride up front with him he was super excited and he had his dinosaur help him. We had to stop the ride to pick the dinosaur back up after he'd tried to escape.

Our crazy kids in the very cold water.

So all the family stayed at Long Beach, WA for a huge firework show; but it just wasn't working for our little kids so we left early in the afternoon and went back to the house. This is our sad firework show. Then me and the big kids walked down to the beach to see the big fireworks

We had a lot of fun and decided to make the drive home in one day it was a long 14hrs but we did it! I think my kids might get brain damage from all the movies they watched on the drive but at least they weren't crying!!