A First Vacation and New Furniture

On June 20th Mike and I celebrated our 18th anniversary. We took a quick little trip down to the Oregon coast. It's around a four hour drive to get there and Kendall tagged along with us and decided that riding in the car wasn't too bad. Her good behavior gave Mike and I hope for our road trip that was coming up.

Kendall decided that after being in the car for about five minutes, that it was a good time to fill her pants after a week long absence in that department.

We visited the Tillamook Cheese Factory and the Tillamook Air Museum. We make it down to the coast about once a year for the last decade or so. Kelsey always vetos the cheese factory because of her dairy allergy. Since she wasn't with us, we decided it was an opportune time to check it out.

It was kind of neat seeing exactly what all goes into preparing, cutting and packaging cheese. It kind of reminded me of an episode of Mr. Rogers on PBS when he would go to visit places to teach kids about different things. The thing that I learned was that I wouldn't want to work in a factory of any type. The jobs that every single person did were so repetitive.
Kendall and Mike posing in front of Mike's favorite war plane, a P-51 Mustang.
The building that the museum is in is the worlds largest wooden building and was used during World War II.

Kendall enjoyed hanging out on the bed at the hotel playing with her toys.
Kendall wasn't sure what she thought of her hat when we went to Cannon Beach. She must have hung on to it for a good two hours.
The day before we went down to Oregon we put together Kendall's new bedroom set. We decided to get her a set that would grow with her.


I stayed up two nights in a row until about 2 a.m. painting these little bird pictures to put above her crib. I think it was probably the first time in a decade that I have painted anything.