This year we planned a Manzanita get-a-way to celebrate Kevin's birthday. We talked Grandma Carol into coming down the same time we were there and with some wonderfully sunny days, we has a great weekend. Well, except for the little fender bender we got into, but nobody was hurt and the car has been fixed. It was just the low point of our trip.
Clara had been working the whole week before on a picture book she created for Daddy. Here is one of her pages MANY pages. Wow, our kiddo has been bitten by the art bug and we have seen such progress in her work! We are very proud and Kevin was extremely touched by her kind gesture.
Besides getting out on the beach every day, we just really enjoyed relaxing back at the house. The kids love playing up in the crows nest, or in the kids room with the bunk beds downstairs.
Clara loves to play in the dunes and when she found her walking stick she was set!
As always, it was great to have Grandma with us to share in the fun of the beach with the girls. She even treated Kevin & I to a dinner date at the Terra Cotta café, one of our favs in Manzanita, and stayed home to watch the girls.
And of course, one of our favorite past times down there is working puzzles. Both Janie & Clara are quite good at puzzles for their age and sometimes get a little obsessed. Watching Kevin (and Carol, too) work puzzles I see where they might have inherited that trait from!
The beach and sunshine was the perfect medicine for the cold, cloudy January we have had! We can't wait to get back!
