{{..So long summer..}}

Well fall is officially upon us. The girls are having a terribly hard time parting with their sun dresses and flip flops ;-) Today, as a part of an internal rebellion I'm sure, Ella wore her polka dot sun dress with an adidas track suit and flip flops!

I realized that I forgot to include our last camping adventures on the ol' blog, so here are a few pictures better late than never!

We headed to South Beach State Park south of Newport at the end of August with our friends the Stampers and Grandma Marian and Poppa. For the Oregon coast, we had nice(ish) weather. There were times each day that the wind stopped long enough and the clouds parted that we were able to take the coats off and even get a little pink from the sun =]

Postcard worthy picture! 

View from the top of the sand dune at the end of the boardwalk. We enjoyed lunch with this view.

Best of friends. They actually asked to have their picture taken together =)

Kerner family at the beach

Running down the dunes. Great way to insure a wonderful nap that afternoon.

Aubrey, my sand baby. (It may be hard to see the sand caked on her face, hair, clothes...)

Stamper family

The reason for the sand baby. She would randomly stop and decide this was the perfect spot for a flip!

One morning we headed into Newport to hang out along the pier with our endpoint being Mo's for lunch --YUM!!!

At first, Aubrey wasn't so sure what to think of the EXTREMELY NOISY sea lions.

Aubrey, Nathan, Ella and Aiden

I sure love them!!!

Able to steal Ella away from all her adventures for a quick picture with Mommy

Definition of "too cute!"

We had quite the crew heading down the sidewalks. Fortunately we got there early so we could take up as much room as we wanted!

We were able to get an up-close and personal viewing of all the sea lions.  They are definitely interesting creatures.

So long summer! It felt like a brief encounter this year but fun-filled nonetheless =]