Yurt camping/Mother's day

This is a deluxe yurt at the Umpqua Lighthouse on the Oregon Coast. It is by Winchester Bay. This is our third year in a row for going with some friends. We lucked out and had GORGEOUS weather. It was quite different this year as several of us had babies, but we made it work and had a blast! There was game playing, talking/hanging out, fire building, singing around the fire, etc. We are already planning on year #4 with the idea of going clamming and/or crabbing and hopefully it will be warm enough to go swimming in a nearby lake or even actually getting wet in the good old Pacific Ocean.

We went on a hike with everybody, Luke is trying to feed a slug to his baby girl, Siena. It was a really big, slimy slug too.

Us at the dunes.

On our hike around the lake. It was a great little hike! Jake and Annie jumped out of the bushes and scared the bajonkas out of me though.

This is at the lighthouse lookout. Bella likes to stick her tongue out in the wind, it is pretty funny. She got really tired after this and pretty much had a melt down outside the museum.

She finally went to sleep, that is what her meltdown was about (why is it that babies and kids know they are tired and that is why they are so cranky, but they don't go to sleep and fix the problem??!!). Thanks to Dan and Carina for letting us use their all-terrain stroller to bring her back in!

My first tin foil dinner!! Yes, I know, I am 28 and I've never had a foil dinner. When I camped with my family we would cook over a stove or mostly use the dutch oven. The foil dinner was so much fun for me! And it was SO good!! :)

We came back on Mother's Day. We took our time driving back as Bella was being very cooperative in the car for once. We checked out a couple of other lakes and campgrounds that looked incredibly inviting!

For Mother's Day Dave got me a great present, A LAPTOP!! A laptop for my very own, I've never had one before. Dave had one at BYUH however it was stolen (that was a rough day - had all of his term papers on it). Dave also made lunch and dinner which were yummy, he even made homemade bread. He let me take a nap too!

It was super special to have my very first Mother's Day. Bella is such a doll and a lot of fun (lots and lots of work too, don't get me wrong). I usually hate Mother's Day and avoid it as it would typically make me cry bringing up the realization that my mother is not here on earth. But it was very different and I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed celebrating it with others too, Motherhood is such a wonderful blessing and all Moms, Moms to be and those trying to be Moms should always be celebrated.