June 30th 2023

Wow I can't believe we got home just last night. I feel like we have been home for days. Today was filled with unpacking and doing laundry. But this morning I took Cam in to get his permit. However, the first time in, Cam failed his vision test so we had to drive home and get his glasses the he has really never worn. Interestingly, The kid after us failed his vision test also. Then Cam got a 70 on his first try and a 76 on his second. He needed an 80 to pass. He could only take it twice in one day so we scheduled another appointment for Monday at 9:50. Then we went to target to pick out something for his birthday. He chose a Nintendo gift card. I mowed the lawn and then we all went to Firehouse pizza for dinner. The boys ate 2 cookie Monsters as well as they each had their own regular fhazookie. Darren went to Striders to watch him open his mission call, he got called to Bolivia. Then I picked him up and we are watching transformers for movie night while Lance is in Malad for his second to last shift.

 June 26th-29th

We spent the last few days at the Horse Creek Delta  house on the McKenzie river. This place is so beautiful. I would love to spend a whole summer here. The mild weather, the shady trees and the sound of the river make it so peaceful here. We had a campfire every night and roasted s'mores. Tuesday we rafted the river and it was beautiful but frigid. I was still shivering after a long hot shower. Cam's birthday was Thursday and we just had time to eat breakfast and pack up. He spent 12 hours of his birthday in the car. Poor guy. Josh got very car sick and we had to stop to get him some fresh air. We almost stopped for the night in Boise because he was so sick but he was able to fall asleep and lance kept driving. We left McKenzie river at 10:24 am and arrived home at 10:22 pm. That was a lot of driving for one day.

 June 24th 2023

Today the boys barely woke up in time for us to check out of our room. Well actually Josh woke up early and we went out and walked on the beach for a while. It turned out to be a sunny beautiful day. We went to Honeyman State park and kayaked at Cleawox lake. There was a very steep sandy hill and the boys went up and down it several times running as fast as they could. Everyone except Cordon layed on the blankets and relaxed for a while. Cordon does not like to get Sandy so he would not sit in the sand. After that we went to get pizza at Abbys Legendary pizza. Then we drove north on 101 and stopped and hiked Hobbit trail to the beach. It was a beautiful trail and gorgeous at the beach. Then we headed over to Corvallis where we got dinner and milkshakes at Burgerville. Then we checked into the Residence Inn in Salem. We miss our spacious suite at the Driftwood Shores. 

United we Sand

 June 23rd, 2023

Today was a sleep in day. The boys all slept at least until 10:30 and some later than that. Then we headed out to the dunes to start our 12;00 rental of 4 wheelers.  It was a great day. Almost 50 degrees, very little wind and no rain; you can't ask for than that on the coast. It was a fun day. Then we came back to the hotel and did puzzles bananagrams and movies. 

20 years will bust your Steak and chops

 June 21st 2023

This is our 20 year anniversary. Wow that starts to sound like a long time. To celebrate we went to dance lessons and then out to dinner at Spencers Steak and Chops last night. It was pretty good food. I was happy. We had to celebrate yesterday because today we are leaving for Oregon. As soon as Darren gets home from Canada!  They had to drive from Kalispell MT and when Darren got home from being in the car for 10 hours he didn't even turn off the car. We unloaded his stuff and reloaded the van with our stuff and immediately took off again. We didn't get on the road until 6pm so we just drove to Boise with a stop in Twin Falls to get dinner at Red Robin. I fit into my wedding dress 20 years later. (size 2). It took Josh and Cord to help zip.

June 22 2023

Driving Day. We left Boise about 9am so Lance would have enough cell service for his hospice meeting call. Cell service cut out just minutes after his call ended. We stopped in Burns for Tim Tams then we stopped in Bend Long enough to get Cam some McDonalds. Then a quick pit stop at Wickiup Junction to go pee and get the best Marionberry turnover that anyone ever had. Then gassed up in Eugene and we didn't stop until we got to the Driftwood Shores resort in Florence. The boys love it here and already don't want to leave. The view from our room in amazing and we have a 3 bedroom suite so there is plenty of room for all of us.

Mo's for dinner. Yummy!

Just waiting for Darren get back from Canada

The fun part of the trip. Darren has been in the car for 25 hours in two days

Wickiup junction marionberry turnover

Our view from our hotel suite. beautiful but so windy.

Bridge in Florence

Sunset

No pics today

 June 15th, 2023

Thursday, Malad Day. I had bunco tonight. It was fun. It was at a house in Jacobs mill. Cordon had London over to watch a movie. Josh and Cam need something to do.

June 16th

Today I drove down to Provo to see Lance and keep him company while he is down there working. We went to dinner at my fav - pizzeria 712 - of course I got the short ribs and the poached pear salad and the we went to Bookers in Provo for ice cream afterwards. It was yummy

Take me out to the ball game

 June 14th 2023

Kind of a lazy day. I mowed the lawn and it looks much better. The weather has been crazy and stormy here. We did some hot tubbing.  We had our last baseball game of the season. Josh had an amazing catch at home plate. He is a really good catcher.