Corier Family Reunion-lots of pictures

 A few weeks ago we went to Lincoln City, Oregon with Peter's family.  It was really fun to be able to see everyone and to meet our two new nephews.  We stayed in a great beach house, with a fantastic view, but the first day we got there, it was so foggy!  We could hardly tell there was even an ocean out there!  Here are a bunch of pictures from our trip.

 Allison is definitely a Houston baby, she was so cold at the beach.

Allison and Claire snuggling after a day at the beach.

 Kya and Grandpa having a snack before bedtime.

 Peter being cute :)

 Violet giving me her Fierce face!

 Beautiful flowers in the yard.

 Emily found this cool rock on the beach.

Beautiful Kya

 Sam laughed for most of his photo shoot, what a doll.  Love this kid.

 Violet is so difficult to get a picture of, what a little stinker!

 Wesley giving us his pose.

 Blue Steel!  (Zoolander anyone?)  Maybe we have a future model amongst us!

 Wesley wants his front teeth for Christmas....Santa you have your work cut out for you!

 Just doing a little shopping with Vi.

 Emily and Allison at the ocean.  I love this picture.

 Wesley flying his "high Velocity kite"

Sam having a great day at the beach.

 Flying kites together.

Pretty little Allison

Claire LOVES photoshoot time, she was totally working it!

I even got the spin pose

One of our new Nephews, Rowan

The sun did eventually did come out.  The view from the backyard was AMAZING!

This view is pretty amazing too :)

 Rowan was not happy about this kiss.  Sorry kiddo, Claire is a kisser.

Allison in her super model mode.  She just stood next to me and said cheese over and over again....she may have just been hungry.

 

And last but not least is our second new nephew, Michael.  He is such a sweet baby.   We really had so much fun visitng with everyone.  It's a little crazy spending 4 days in one house with 8 kids under 6 but we had a lot of fun and I think we made some great memories.  We are already looking forward to our next big family trip to Houston for Wesley's baptism!

I am in love with this view.

Summer Fun

 I am so glad that the sun if finally coming out.  We actually stayed in today because we were all too tired from playing in the sun all weekend.  That almost never happens.  Last week we took the girls to Tumwater Falls.  They love this park and I ended up taking them back a few days later.

 Claire was obsessed with the water in the salmon ladders.  It is a little scary to walk on those grates.  They are very secure but, still it's scary.

 Violet gives the park a thumbs up!

 Claire joined the soccer team for practice.  She had a blast.  Violet is loving Soccer.  She is on the same team as Liv and Wy so she is very happy to have her friends to play with.

 On the 4th we had a busy day.  We went to the Church breakfast...we had been out late watching to Olympia/Lacey fireworks so it was really hard to get up that early.

 We had a flag raising at the church.  It was nice.  A sister read a poem and the children sang some songs.

 Around Mothers day my grandparents gave the girls some carrot plants. We planted them in my parents back yard and on the 4th the girls pulled them out.

 Uncle John helped Claire pull her carrots up.

 Showing off their carrots.

 Fresh Carrots from the garden :)

 That weekend we went to the beach with my family.  It was such a fun weekend.  the weather was great.  We played on the beach, went to a market in Illwaco, saw the fireworks and roasted hot dogs on the beach.  It was a perfect weekend.  I think I could do that every week :)

 The port of Illwaco.  We walked along the docks and checked out all the boats.

 We had lunch at a great seafood place. It was delicious.  I had halibut tacos...yum.

 It was really windy but very sunny on Saturday night.  We had dinner on the beach while the girls and Zelda ran around.

 V dancing in the waves.

 Zelda was so happy to run around and chase Claire on the beach.

 Claire helped Grandpa fly his kite.

 a huge flock of pelicans settled on the beach.  It was pretty fun to watch them for a while. Someone drove up about an hour later and ran through them and sent them all flying...some people just shouldn't be allowed outside.

 Perfect evening on the beach.

 V got a barbie kite and before we went home we took some time to fly it.  We didn't go down to the beach because we were out of dry clothes and Violet can't go to the beach without jumping in the waves.