Seaside

 We made our annual winter trip to the beach last weekend.  The beach is one of our most very favorite places to vacation!  The Parnell side of the family goes every winter to be together and reconnect.  The earliest I can remember going to Cannon Beach/Seaside is when I was 7.....and there haven't been too many years that we have not made the trip to the coast.  This was a great year for beach weather with hardly any wind and tons of sun on Saturday!

No trip to the coast is complete without a stop at the cheese factory

 Perfect weather!

The whole family got to ride the bumper cars....Erika did well driving herself

 On Saturday, we spent some time at the tide pools with the entire family.  And had a great photo opportunity!

We are so blessed to be able to live so close to the coast.  And getting together with my family is something we look forward to all year long.  I have lots of family pictures to share, but wanted to just post our immediate family pictures in this post.