6th Annual Family Beach Trip: Long Beach

For our 6th annual family beach trip we went back to Long Beach, WA, the trip that spurred this annual tradition. The one big difference this year was that Damian and Elly were able to join us!  Many of my fondest memories from growing up are of our family trips to Fort Stevens on the Oregon Coast and it felt really special for all three of us Jackson kids to be together at the beach. There were bike rides and hot-tubbing, kite flying and games, beach walks, wave jumping, and of course lots of cousinland craziness. And here are a few pics...

 

 

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A Twist On Our Summertime Trip to Chelan

Our annual summertime trip to Chelan was a little different this year. We still had a great time enjoying the pool and the lake and many Chelan activities, but Lars and Shannon only came for a few days and Finn and Reid didn't join us because they were on a little trip with their grandparents. We did get to have their new little darling Ella with us, but somehow I didn't get a single picture of her! Oh, and Conway became a swimmer! He wanted to take his swim vest off so that he could swim to the bottom of the pool to collect toys so we let him give it a try. He obviously still needs pretty close supervision, but the kid can swim to the bottom of the pool and back up and then keep himself afloat! Here are some of the pictures we did manage to take...

{Almost lulled to sleep by the boat ride}

{Where's the rest of the s'more?!}

  {Movie night in the kids' media nook}

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