Camping at the Coast!

We drove down to Florence to go camping with Sean's family for three days.  It was fun to have the kids see Grammy and Papa and their cousin Bianca and Aunt and Uncle.  It was a long drive down to Florence but was worth it when we got there.  The kids were so excited to get to go camping again and to get to sleep in a big tent!  We camped at Honeymon park right near the sand dunes.  There was a playground right near our campsite which was really fun.

Swinging away

Swinging and having fun

Camping with Papa in his seat

The kiddos sitting around the fire with their Grammy

Brandon enjoying some dinner by the campfire

Olivia enjoying watching the fire 

Roasting marshmallows by the fire

Olivia and Brandon were excited to see their cousins Bianca and Kevin who drove all the way down from Seattle to camp with us.  They arrived late in the night on Friday.  Grammy and Papa borrowed a RV from a friend and we enjoyed our newer (we bought in the summer of 2014) 2 room 10 person Coleman tent.  The kids had a lot of fun just hanging out by the campground. 

Olivia and her cousin Bianca

Swinging away

Cousins playing in the sand at the park near the campground

Hi Mom!

Cousins enjoying some fruit sticks

We went to the dunes after we had some breakfast.  So much fun running down the dunes.  I loved going to this park when we were little on our way home from Bandon.  We would go almost every time and I had a lot of fond memories.  It was so much fun re-living the experiences with my kids.  It was a sunny day in the morning and it was fairly warm in the 60s for the coast.  We ran down the dunes into the water.

So much fun at the sand dunes 

Fun at the sand dunes

Fun rolling down the sand dunes

Rolling down the sand dunes

A little uncertain of the sand

Digging in the sand

Getting out the inner tubes

Throwing sand in the water

Mommy and Liv sighting

Cousins swimming together

After we played at the dunes we came back to the camp site and Olivia took a nap.  When we got up from the nap, it was beginning to get overcast and we decided to go to the ocean.  It took a while to drive into where we could walk into a beach.  We parked and then had to go up a big hill to the sand dunes and then run down to get to the ocean.

Beautiful Oregon coast

Running down the dunes to the ocean

Olivia and Daddy, Olivia is excitedly pointing at the ocean

Sand digging time!

Having fun at the beach running around

Bianca and Olivia playing at the beach

Grammy and Brandon running away from the waves together 

Running at the beach

She loves the beach

Brandon excited to run down the sand dunes at 4 1/2

Bianca and Olivia playing together

Bianca at almost 2

Daddy and Olivia hiking back up 

Papa and Olivia at the camp site

Sitting on Papa's lap at the camp ground

Papa and his girls

We went back to the camp ground and started cooking dinner and then it rained!  It ended up down pouring all night but we luckily had the RV so were able to watch a movie in there and then go into our tent to sleep. Luckily we had our Rain Fly for the tent and we stayed nice and dry.  We ended up not staying another due to the weather being so unpredictable but we stayed late into the day and went to the ocean again on our way back to Grammy and Papa's house where we stayed the night.  We had a lot of fun camping the second time as a family of four (Brandon's third time camping).  We hope to do it again soon!

Liv and I snuggling in the morning

Family campground picture!