to the beach...

So sorry for the absence lately, I'm still trying to figure out how to work with this new

life schedule of ours (read more here) and the husband was off for 10days

 so we stayed insanely busy with the time we had together!

Although he doesn't expect me to remain offline when he is home,

he does sort of appreciate the time we get together and so do I.

That's why last week was perfect for the Summer Lovin' Giveaway!

Well I would love to share some photos of a recent trip to the Oregon Coast,

we seriously lucked out.  In Oregon we don't go the "beach", as its known that most

days are windy, cloudy, foggy.. so we go to the "coast",
 but in the summer you can hit a day just right, like we did!

We are about an 1 1/2 from the coast, so we get to drive through the Redwoods

dip into Cali and head up 101 back into Oregon if we want to do a quick day trip.

Once we saw how busy Harris Beach in Brookings was (yes this is considered busy!)

we decided to head up a few more miles to a quieter spot so that Arthur could play in the water

Um that scary (funny) photo of Arthur is what happens when a big gust of wind

hits his big droopy cheeks!  Priceless.

The only thing on Arthurs mind when he sees water, is to get it all in his mouth.

So we spent 2 hrs watching him bite waves.. more on that later.

Me deciding that going in the water with him on a leash was a bad idea,

since he yanked me in full clothes and all!  We let him run free after this.

Husband has some 5 finger vibrams (view here)

so any chance he gets to climb something, he will!

We never have to take baggies on walks with us,

because for some reason he only #1's on walks

(which is great!)

Well after 2 hours of gulping ocean water, he puked up foam and #2'd what looked like mustard

..i know gross detail...

on the trail where we immediately had to run away from it since we didn't have a baggie..

 and how do you pick up something the consistency of that anyway??

We got him back up to the car and this was his ashamed look... very ashamed.

And with Oregon weather you never know when it will change,

so we made it out just before the fog rolled in!

So Mr. Smith is back at work again (oh 2 weeks, I hope you go by quickly!)

he is stationed in Kalispell, MT for a few days then they are heading somewhere

into L.A County.. possibly Van Nuys.  Really wherever they need the helicopters for fires!

But he is back on Aug 31st, and that following week I will share another road trip!

This time up to Portland, Or for our fertility appt.. um no fertility photos though ;p