Bastendorff Beach

For our last fun trip of the summer, we went camping at a great place called Bastendorff. It was our first camping trip in about the last 7 that it didn't rain on us. The weather was perfect and the kids had a great time! I realize there are more pictures of Ethan...but I guess he was just the one staying closest to me as he is most aware of the dangers of the water for some reason (for the crazy kid that he is, he is the more fearful of our little group). Sylvia has always been our water girl and was somewhere getting wet the whole time and Preston loved jumping in the waves, while Briana was happy to sit in my lap or hold someones hand to run through the water. Luke the dog was just happy when he got to be off leash to run as fast as he could...which is super fast. Luckily he always came back. There was a huge sand pit that someone had worked hard to dig out, and our kids had a blast sliding, jumping and falling in it to the point where it was half-way filled in by the time we left. We love the tide pools and rock formations of the OR coast. Amazing!

This was the sunrise at our house just as we were leaving for our camping trip. Isn't it a beautiful view? We like it.