Serina came to town!

At children's church conference in March, Rainey and I made a wonderful friend named Serina. Last week she was able to come and stay with us. Showing her around was such a blast, and the time went by to fast. We had a lot of fun together. Everyday we kept Serina busy. After we picked her up from the airport we took Serina to voodoo doughnuts...

 

 Day 1: Depot Bay and Whale Watching

Day 2: Pacific City
It was an absolutely beautiful day at Pacific city. We enjoyed climbing around on the rocks, and we got to see two whales swimming around.

Day 3: Hike and McMillians Property

My mom took Serina, Abram(Serinas brother), and Rainey on a hike on a really cool trail in banks. It ended up being pretty long, but they had fun... I think ;) And visiting the McMillians property was so fun. The scenery is breathtakingly beautiful out there.

Day 4: Kayaking and BBQ
We went kayaking on devils lake for an hour. Serina and her brother were like pros out there, but I was pretty JV. It was really fun though, and the weather was beautiful, as you can see in the pictures.

Another Summer Update

Hello!!!
I know that we have not been blogging very much lately. We have been so busy!! Rainey has been going to soccer practices and games. I have been working and going to school. Not to mention hanging out with Bianca and Juan while they were here.
Life is going well. Here are some more pictures of what has been going on with us....

Rainey and I went on outreach to Chico, CA at the end of May. We had a great time with the Foley's
And spending time with people from our church. It was so great to see God moving in that city.

 Our beach trip to Pacific City was such a good time. I had never really explored the rocky areas, and we found some pretty sweet sites. Including STARFISH!!!!!!!! I drove Caleb, Rainey, Bianca, and Juan up there. It was nice when we arrived (even a little hot) but within an hour it was overcast.

Rainey and Caleb (We climbed that cliff in the background!!!!)

Look at the beautiful sea creatures :)

That is Juan and Caleb down on those rocks.

Cousins

 This is the world famous (okay MAC famous) McDank. It is made from a McChicken sandwich and a Daily Double from McDonalds( Which only costs 2.99). You can also make it with just a McChicken and a double cheese burger, for only 2 dollars.

McDank

 I made a trip over to Vancouver to visit the Gash's.

David is getting so big. He is learning a lot of new words, soon he
will be saying my name.... hopefully.

Isaiah learned how to ride a two wheel bike!!

Annabelle is ten now : O

Now that school is out, we have had a lot more time to spend with friends. Including Moriah...

Besties

 We made a trip to downtown Portland on Saturday night. Voodoo Doughnuts and Long-boarding down the waterfront. #YOLO

Audrey, Moriah, Paree, and Robin

Studd Muffin

Thanksgiving!!

This year our family was so blessed to be able to spend thanksgiving at the beach in a house!! We had a great time and enjoyed a beautiful ocean view through the windows... Ha ha. We also found some good deals on Black Friday at the mall. Unfortunately we all gained some weight... So now we are going to work hard to get it off again!
Now here are some pictures:

Spring break

It is spring break! WHOOP WHOOP! I'm so sad in a few days its back to school. But, school seems to go faster after spring break then its summer :) Although I enjoy rainy days, snow and fall leafs. I do like seeing the sun, getting tan and going on outreaches with my church.
Anyways for the first day of spring break (Saturday) we went to the beach with our friend Eddie. It was quite windy and stormy. We still went for a walk. Glass blowing shops in Lincoln city take glass floats and hid them all over. So we tried to find one.... no success.
 Monday we spent the night at our favorite place Ocean Terrace, it was very fun. We walked on the beach some more. Then on Tuesday we went to Bandon, we went to some book shops and little store which was fun. Thats pretty much the highlights, hopefully spring well come......
(my mom was there on Saturday she just is not pictured we also have no pics from Monday or Tuesday)

As you can see it was very windy, destiny and eddie where trying to avoid getting sand in there eyes. 

Destiny has always wanted to take her picture by these statues so we finally did. 

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