10 years!

June 28th 2013 marked our 10 year anniversary! And since we never do anything for ourselves we decided to book a trip to the Oregon Coast. 

So on Friday the 28th we drove to Eugene to meet my mom. She took our kids so we could go to the coast. There really is only one place to meet when you go to Eugene.........

That's right Autzen Stadium! The kids have never seen it, and it was cool to see all the new developments!

There was a lot of construction going on. 

So we put the kids in my moms car and headed down to campus to go to the bookstore. We needed some new shirts and school pencils for the kids. 

After checking in to our "awesome" hotel we walked down the street to Mo's! You can't visit Florence without a visit to Mo's! 

Then across the street to BJ's for some salt water taffy!

The movie "Big" was on tv a few weeks ago and the kids were watching part of it. And the Zoltar part totally freaked Madison out. So this picture was for her!

Then Saturday morning we headed to the North Jetty to take a nice walk on the beach. 

The beautiful beach! It was an awesome 75 degrees! With a nice warm breeze!

Travis climbed a huge rock to scope out the best path to the water!

Our path to the water. Let's just say that my ankle was the size of a softball when we got back to our room! 

US! 

Travis LOVES the beach and the ocean! He would just stand and look. He also enjoyed skipping rocks!

I thought that this was a cool picture! It was so sunny and warm. We asked around while we were shopping and they said that this was a heat wave! 78 was like 100 to them! HAHA! 

We had to be sure to document the trip!

We found a dead friend on the beach! 

The whole time we were there we kept saying, "the kids would love this!" or "We need to find a shell for each of the kids!"

We found another live friend that Travis took back to the water!

It's on the end of the stick!

Saturday evening we went up the road and played a round of mini golf! Sadly I lost by 4 stokes! But it was pretty fun! And then went to a nice Chinese dinner and DQ for dessert!

We headed back to my mom's on Sunday morning. Since we couldn't sleep in (7am both mornings!) we got up early packed the van and headed down HWY 101. We stopped at a light house, that is run by the U.S Coast Guard.

It was a pretty fun trip and we are grateful to have some much needed alone time! Thanks Mom and Donn for taking the kids!