Our annual Oregon trip

Over the past four years we have spent the 4th of July on the Oregon coast. It offers amazing beauty, wonderful weather, and big fireworks in small coastal communities. This year we spent the entire trip it Yachats ( Ya-hots) about 10 miles North of Florence, on the coast. We always stay in a beach house and this year we really relaxed. Lazy days beach combing, shopping, eating clam chowder, swimming, and crabbing. A few of us even got a book in. It was very nice. I wish I could take you all with me. It's an experience you'd never forget. Enya songs come to mind. Here are a few pics from our trip. We spent the first night eating our foil dinners, relaxing by the fire, making smores and taking advantage of the great photo ops. Further down you can see us all doing the "Sunshine pimp kick" as Andrew calls it.

Andrew loves to pose for the camera.

Our pimp kicks

Our romantic moment on the beach

Ryan Blowing fire

Later that night Ryan showed us his amazing fire blowing show. He's done it a million times, and it really is pretty amazing. Unfortunately this night turned out to be his last night blowing fire. It was horrifying to watch his face go up in flames, thanks to Scott's quick thinking we got him down in the sand soon enough to stop severe burning. Ryan and Kristy spent the night in the er, but were able to join us the next morning. Ryan suffered mostly 1st and some 2nd degree burns. Thanks to a priesthood blessing he had little pain.

Doing some beach combing

Attack of the aliens

Yachats on the 4th, if you look closely you can see the parade route

Crabbing

Our matching pj's

Fireworks over the bay

Ryan and Kristy at the Haceta Head lighthouse

The fam

We had a great time and love the Oregon coast! I'm so glad we live in a free country where we can enjoy the beauties that are here!

p.s. Thanks BJ and Kam for watching our dog. We love you and know that we appreciate all that you do for us.

p.s.s Transformers the movie ROCKS!!