Baby kisses to all the moms.  I got to spend quite a bit of time playing and holding my new niece.  She as a result blew me a kiss.  Okay I know she's too little to blow kisses, but it sure looked like it.  LOL

We had a wonderful day at salt creek with my mom, and the nicest weather yet this spring.   Very wonderful.  WONDERFUL

Its been raining hard all week, except today which has had sunbreaks, and cloud, but nothing wet.  So when Rob woke up early he asked me if I wanted to go to the beach I said no.  I wanted to go see if the falls we found last weekend was more impressive thanks to the rain.

So we did...alas it wasn't.

But several others I had never seen were.

They weren't big falls, but they sure were pretty.

babbling creek on the way to the first fall.

Jamari sitting at the bottom of the first one.  This one was so loud.  The sound was mesmerizing, Rob and I could have just sat there for hours...if there had been some place to sit.  *snicker*

Zeria re-sprained her ankle just before this picture so she stayed in the car, and Samuel twisted his climbing down at the first falls, so he also stayed in the car, so no pictures of them at either falls. 

Both of them are sore tonight still.  Samuel came out crying a few minutes ago.  His isn't swollen, but it definitely hurts, as he rarely admits to pain.

The best view I could get of the first falls.  The  brush/brambles are growing fast this time of year, so it was very hard to get a semi-unobstructed view.

Kaylin checking the culvert the falls emptied into.  I love this picture, just captures kids natural curiosity.  She said it was scarey down there, as it is in at a slant.   This is one of these falls that you could drive by day after day without seeing, I know we have for the last four years.  ROFL

Some shamrocks getting ready to bloom.  That's not there "official" name, just what I've always called them.

And the second falls, yes that's our second oldest dog on the edge of the picture.  Jamari was the "conqueror" at both falls due to his older more adventurous siblings being stuck in the car.  Although Zeria did eventually end up coming out to see this one.

I love this picture.  I love the bubbling white water.  I try and try to capture that, but I think I managed this time. 

At this falls we *did* find a nice place to sit.  So we did, and just watched it and enjoyed the green green moss, and the sound of the falls tumbling down.

KK at the falls.

And Rainee at the falls.

HMM I'll have to post that later as xanga's being a butt.

And yes it was as green as the pictures show, no editing has been done on any but the two babbling pictures.   So restful.

I usually run low on one or two things between paydays.  And the "good" snacks of course always disappear soonest.

But I'm out of flour AND bread, and cheeze, and milk  Staples in our house.

I ordered milk on pay day, it usually takes a week to come--we drink milk moos, and I typically ordered a bag once or twice a year.  And almost twk weeks later still no sign of it. 

Pay day isn't until Monday.

I made four loaves of bread with the last of the flour tonight--rather flat loaves since I ran out of flour before the bread was the right consistency. 

So that takes care of staples for tomorrow.

But Friday-Sunday is going to be creative.  *snicker*

Rob and I committed to *not* running to the mom and pop store for stuff.  And we've done really really well at it.  But I'm thinking flour is going to have to be purchased tomorrow. 

We are down to less then a dozen eggs, so we can't eat eggs for breakfast for the next four days, and we don't do cereal for breaky, Rob cooks.  And his options for breakfast without flour milk and low eggs are LIMITED.

I sure would like to know how I planned so poorly to run out of bread and flour on the same pay check.  *scratches head*

Monday can't come soon enough!

Okies so we didn't have a power outage all winter which was a first since we moved here.

But today at approximately 9:30 the power went on off, on off, on and OFF.  It just came back on about 6 hours later.  We've had wind and hard rain all day.  The river is quite full, not dangerously full, just FULL.

And it was a long day without power.  LOL

Okies, so Rob and I knew according to the forecast it was going to be gorgeous today.  It did end up being a bit windy, but still beautiful.  As a result we packed up a picnic, firewood, a blanket, a shovel and headed to the beach.  It was more complicated then most of our visits to the beach because we were planning on being there awhile.

I wish you could have heard Jeremiah's shriek of joy when he realized we'd brought "hot dogs!" with us, and were staying.

So the first hour or so I spent wandering tide pools by myself.  And the kids spent in building habitat's for the crabs they captured.  There words not mine. 

I laughed and said, so you take them out of there habitat, and put them in a new one?

Rob's comment under his breath was.  "Sounds like typical white-man to me."

While I was exploring Rob started our camp fire, and built Mt Rainier.

Seriously ridiculous volcano!    ROFL  He works hard when he plays I swear.

After that Rob and I laid on our blanket and just enjoyed each other, and the sounds of the kids shrieking over there crab adventures.  Eventually we made lunch...and had sand dogs.  That would be the winds fault.  Blecky.  The kids enjoyed them.  Rob and I were wishing for something to clean them with LOL

Eventually I got restless and decided it was time to build us a driftwood fort.  Rob followed me, and soon got into the big spirit of the thing, and we build a doozy of one. 

It was big enough that even Rob and I could sit up in it.  We had a kids space and a parents space.  LOL  We even talked about going back there on our date night tonight, but didn't actually manage that...hmm maybe it will be there next weekend--guess that's up to the tide.

Pictures of course don't do it justice.  *snicker*

View from inside it looking out.

being spied on from the outside of the fort--okay so it would get us wet if it rained. 

The wind REALLY picked up shortly thereafter so we decided to leave.

But first the kids had to erupt the volcano. 

And then Jeremiah had to sit in the crater.

He said he was a baby bird sitting on his eggs.  LOL

And yeah he's wearing his daddys coat.  Cause he went wading/swimming and got cold and wet, and that's what daddys coats are for.  LOL

We had brought the sailboard to use at the beach, but the tide was too far out, so the kids opted out on that.  We'll do it another day. 

All in all a very very perfect day.

Just gorgeous today.

It was as I mentioned last a baton day.  But even so there was much opportunity to enjoy the nicest day we've had yet.  It hit 70, and was sooooo gorgeous. 

We drove home via the canal instead of the ocean as I had to drop some paperwork off in Sequim.  And it was sooooo nice.  I think I said that didn't I. 

Any how we stopped and played at a favorite rest-stop/picnic site along the canal that I've been stopping at since I was small.  Zeria swam in the canal, (goofy).  The rest of the kids chased for crabs

It was so nice and toasty I stripped off my sweatshirt and got down to a tank top for the first time this summer.  Ahh U.V. Rays!