Oregon Coast, Day 3

Oregon Coast, Day 3 & David's Baptism
Oct 12

Saturday was our last day of vacation, and we made the most of it.  It was the big event, David's baptism, which is one of the main reasons we wanted to go at that time to visit.  We got ready in the morning and drove to Astoria to the church, where we met the rest of the family.  Matt and Mike both gave talks, and did a great job.  It was fun to have the whole thing planned for David, there are always multiple baptisms at a time in Utah.  The day was really special, and we are so glad we were able to be there to share it with him.  Matisyn is so excited that her special day is coming soon!
After lunch at Megan's house, we went to the most beautiful beach.  It was Ecola State Park, and it had tidepools, rocks to climb, and an amazing shoreline surrounded by trees.  The kids all got sandy and happy again playing in the water.  Emilyn, Matt, Wendy, Mike, Cass, and I walked the beach to the end to some big rocks.  Emilyn was such a big girl climbing over all of them, and she loved having special time with Mom and Dad all to herself.  Lucas stayed pretty happy and quiet looking around in the baby bjorn.  We had dinner that night at Moe's in Cannon Beach, one of Matt's favorite places that he remembers eating on his mission.  After dinner we said our goodbyes, and headed to our hotel to start packing up for our early morning drive home.  We left around 5:00 am the next morning, and because of the long drive, and a detour that Matt accidentally took in Idaho, we didn't get home until 11:00 or so Sunday night.  It was a LONG day, full of lots of driving, (and Emilyn throwing up in the middle after my bright idea to give her hi chews to keep her content and happy so we wouldn't have to stop and wake Lucas up from his nap)!  I think she made it until number 13 before she choked on one, and they all came back up.  My plan did not save us time!  We were happy to make it home when we did.  In all, we managed almost 2500 miles on our drive, and had one of the best vacations we can remember.  It was a great combination of beautiful places to visit and time together as a family!

 We loved having a rocking chair in our room.  We made good use of it when we were there.

David all dressed in white and ready to be baptized!

Sammy and Emilyn were little buddies during our visit.

This was the view from a bridge on the walk over to the beach

Lucas checking out the tide pools with Daddy

Playing some beach tic tac toe

We were so busy that we hardly got to enjoy our beach at our hotel.  The last night I walked down there just to see what it was like.  I got to watch the sunset.