Camping!

About a month ago we met my parents at Bullards Beach State Park on the Southern Oregon Coast. The days leading up to going camping I was constantly checking the weather. It was end of June so one would think the weather would be nice no problem... well not so much in Oregon. The forecast was calling for a wet cold rainy weekend {across pretty much the WHOLE state}. We debated back and forth wether to just tough it out and go, or if it was really worth it to tent camp in the rain {with a two-year-old and being 27 weeks pregnant}. My parents have a trailer and had made reservations so they were going rain or shine.

Friday rolled around and we woke up to grey cloudy skies at home. We made the decision to just go for it. {yes, I'm sure we are crazy} We figured if Friday night was miserable we'd come home Saturday. On our way there it was ugly. It poured and poured some more on us. As we got closer to the campground {and farther away from our dry, warm comfy beds} I kept thinking, "what are we thinking?!" We arrived to the camp ground and of course it was raining. My dad and Russ set up our tent underneath a canopy {which was a lifesaver}. We hung out in the dry trailer that night. When we went to bed I prayed and prayed that we'd sleep through the night and wake up dry. And thankfully we did! Saturday morning we were up by 5:30am and it wasn't because we were soaking wet. The rain had stopped during the night and didn't return the rest of the weekend. We ended up have a great time with some pretty blue skies as well.

Our little humble abode for the weekend. The lines that look like streaks on the picture is actually the rain pouring off of the canopy from the trailer.

Friday night trike ride in the rain.

 Saturday we spent the afternoon exploring Old Town Bandon {notice the blue skies!!?}

If you ever go to Bandon you must go to Crandberry Sweets & More. They have samples of almost every type of candy they sell. {It's kind of like Costco in way of samples, but candy}

Our camping site.

 Playing on the beach!

 Helping dad build a sandcastle.

 Quick picture with the sandcastle.

 Destroying the sandcastle.

 Conquering the sandcastle. 

 Our little family.

 Papa Mike and Papa Lori {yes, he calls his Grandma, Papa... He will not say Grandma}

 Here I am at 27 weeks!

Sitting by the campfire. 

And he's out. 

The second night I opted to sleep in the trailer. I thought it would be more comfortable for all of us. Well, Blake moves a lot in his sleep and kept falling off the side of the air mattress which woke both him and Russ up so half way through the night Russ brought Blake to me in the trailer and he slept much better next to me where he couldn't roll off. And slept soundly till about 7am {much better then the 5:30 wake up time the morning before :)}

Sunday morning we spent more time on the beach and then packed up to head home. 

 It was another beautiful morning!

 Papa and Blake found a fort!

 Inside the fort.

 Running on the beach.

All of us!

I'm looking forward to many more camping trips as Blake gets older {and baby girl too}! 

The Beach

Memorial Day Weekend {yes, it seems like forever ago} was a four day weekend for us. Russ took Friday off and we headed to the coast for a family day! We started at the Oregon Coast Aquarium. I hadn't been to the aquarium since Keiko the whale was there so it had been awhile for me and I wasn't sure what to expect. It didn't take us long to see everything but Blake loved seeing the fish and the birds. There is a new exhibit that we miss by a day so we are definitely going to have to go back to check that out.

Checking out the starfish.

 Checking out the birds. 

Checking out the passages of the deep.

Blake was very intrigued about the man in the water.

Checking out the jelly fish.

After the beach we headed north to Lincoln City and of course had to stop at the outlet stores. Blake {and Russ} napped in the car while I spent sometime shopping. Once the boys were rested and I got my shopping fix we headed to the beach! This was the first time Blake had been to the beach since he started walking. {considering how close we live to the beach I can't believe it took us so long to get him there!} At first he wasn't so sure what to think of the sand.

Towards the end he was having so much fun! 

The whole way home all we heard was "more bato, bato pees" {translation; more water, water please} We are heading back to the beach this weekend for some camping {and hoping we don't get rained out}!

The flu.

The flu hit the Bartlett household hard at the end of the week. Wednesday afternoon Russ called to say he was coming home because he wasn't feeling good. I will spare you the details but by Thursday morning we were all feeling crummy and were couch bound. Blake and I were back to normal by Friday and Russ is finally starting to feel back to normal. I don't think I have ever seen him so sick and miserable. It was not fun and I'm thankful to have my husband back now. We unfortunately missed out on a lot of fun things that were planned for the weekend. But oh well, what can you do. Just glad we mostly are back to normal!

Now it's time for me to get packing because Blake and I take off for Virginia on Wednesday to meet my new nephew and hopefully see some sights of DC! I am a little nervous about flying by myself across the country with a one-and-a-half-year-old. I've stocked up on coloring/sticker books, a new little car and some other fun things he can do in a confined space for 4 hours including iPad aps and a few Sesame Street and Backyardigans episodes. Hope all that and some snacks will keep him occupied.

The next time you hear form me I'll most likely be posting from Virginia!

Weekend Recap

This weekend started off great! But ended not so great...

Saturday we woke up and hung around the house anticipating the arrival of Nana and Papa (Russell's parents) and Aunt KK (Russell's sister). We had given Russell's Dad tickets for the OSU vs Standford basketball game and it was this weekend. 

We hung out here in the afternoon for Blake to nap and then headed into Corvallis to eat dinner our favorite pizza place {shocking surprise, I know}. After dinner we said good-bye to Kacie and Danny and headed to drop Blake off at the Hammagren's. With the game not starting till B's bedtime I figured it would be best to not take him with us.

View from our seats: 

Yes, we were pretty much as high as you could get. Only one row behind us. 

{that would be the cement wall of the top of Gill behind us. We moved to the very top after half time to lean against the wall and cool off a bit because it was so warm in there and the wall being cement was nice and cool}

The game went in to QUADRUPLE, 4 overtimes, that's an extra 20 min of playing time!!! It was insane. We lead most of it and should have won, had many, too many chances to win but lost by 2 points. It was the longest game played in the history of OSU basketball! It felt more like the length of a football game then basketball. It didn't end till after 10pm. Thankfully B was not with us, he was sound asleep at the Hammagrens.By the time we picked him up and got home it was after 11pm. That's one late night out for us! 

Sunday morning we were planning on going to church. But B wasn't acting quite himself. I took his temp and he had a fever of 101. 

Church was a no go for us. 

So we had a relaxing morning at home with wagon rides and some cartoons. B went down for an early-ish nap and I broke out the new sewing machine while everyone else went to Home Depot {I don't think Don and Pam can come here without a trip to Home Depot}

{I only had time to figure out how to thread it and sew two lines, but I love it! It's quite the step up from the 60 year old Singer I was using.}

B had a mild fever all day Sunday. Sunday night we put him to bed and an hour later he was still awake. I went in to get him and when I picked him up I could tell right away why he hadn't fallen asleep... he was burning up! I took his temp and it was 102.8.

Long story short he's been doing a lot of this...

and this...

I talked with the nurse twice today and she said there is a virus going around that's just a fever and lasting 3-4 days. Today being day two, I'm hoping we just have one more day of this. I'm just so thankful he is not throwing up too, now that would be horrible. Hopefully he'll be back to normal tomorrow.