Ok, so maybe we were a little crazy...

...but we had a great time and made lots of memories!!

7 adults

10 kids (under the age of 11)

1 dog

  5 kittens

+ Staying in a rather small vacation house

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A weekend of fun in Pacific Beach & Ocean Shores. 

The last Summer hurrah before school starts!

 

Picture collage below:

Top left: This is how we woke Uncle Pat & Auntie Cookie up this morning. Uncle Adam promised the kids each an extra pancake if they could wake them up.(This was not the only "bet or promise" Uncle Adam made with the kids this weekend. He bet them all $5 at the park on Saturday that they couldn't cross the zip line type monkey bars, and every last one of them did it! Auntie MaeMae was excited about that one : ) They were satisfied with ice cream sandwiches luckily!)

Top right: Playing a mean game of "Garbage". The Anderson clan taught us this game this weekend and I am sure it will turn into a family favorite.

2 squares top left: This is what the kids (and big boys!) spent most of the weekend doing!

Bottom left:Uncle Adam having breakfast with the kiddos.

2 squares bottom right: The two youngest were troopers all weekend!

Bottom right: Dinner last night on the front lawn

We spent the weekend in Pacific Beach with family and friends. The kids enjoyed riding bikes, playing games, digging in sand and trying out skim boarding for the first time. The adults enjoyed watching the kids play, playing games ourselves and just relaxing. Saturday, we all went into Ocean Shores for the day. The men and children braved the water with skim boards while the women (and a couple kids) stayed bundled up armed with cameras catching spills and rides on the skim boards. We had Sand Castle (burgers and fries, not sandcastles : ) for lunch and then headed back to the house. This morning several of us walked to (one of) the local espresso places and had hot cocoa and cinnamon buns before heading back to pack up and head out. We were ready to go home and get all that sand off!