Life's a Beach

It's a 3 day weekend, and we needed a vacation. Fortunately, the Oregon Coast is less than 2 hours away! We took off this morning for Cannon Beach Oregon, hit up the beach really fast, got our salt water taffy, ate lunch at Ecola Seafood Market and headed on over to Seaside for the rest of the day. With temps above 60 degrees (we reached a whopping 48 degrees at home today. We haven't seen 60 in months!) and no wind or clouds, it was an AWESOME day.

Jill, Drew and Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach.

Drew is as happy as a kid in a candy store. Actually, he IS a kid in a candy store!

Drew heads toward the ocean in Seaside.

Of course, the most fun game at the beach, running from waves! As you can see from our attire, it was plenty warm to play in the water. (though the Pacific water in January feels even colder than usual, if that's possible)

Another silhouette picture of Jill and Drew.

Run, Drew.. Run!!

I really like this reflection picture. I call it "Drew Fetching Shovel"

This is another cool reflection picture. I call it "Drew Picking Up The Shovel He Was Fetching"

Mom and Drew running from the waves.

Brrrrr... the waves won.... this time.

Drew "Surfing"

Drew "Surfing" again.

Warm and dry, with hot chocolate in hand, we all sat at the sea wall at Seaside to relax and watch the sun sink toward the horizon. Drew is wearing thermal pants and a coat. It's all we could find in the car that was dry. We had no change of clothes, who knew the weather would be this nice?!?

The View.

About 5 minutes outside of Seaside on the way home We knew he would sleep, but we had no idea it would happen so fast.