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Seaside Oregon

Last weekend Dad and I drove my Miata to Seaside, OR and spent a wonderful afternoon and early evening with Becky's family and Lorilynn's family. I can't get these pictures to go in the correct order so just enjoy!

The joys of youth - to not feel how very cold the water is!

It was about 65, sunny and no wind so it was great at the coast!

I wanted to go on the Bumper cars too, but they got the last ride of the night and had so much fun!

Sand, wonderful, warm sand.

Mother's Day gift

For Mother's Day this year, Dad cut up the hot tub and then we purchased a new rectangular, offside umbrella for the deck. Once we get the deck sanded and repainted it should be really nice!

Bye Bye Hot tub

Dad and 2 of our friends from Prune Hill ward had a sawsall party on Saturday and cut the old hot tub up in 1/4's! It was very dead. It had cracked throughout the inside, we had mended them twice, and finally this winter the pipes froze and broke, and Arnold had clawed this whole cedar strip on the corner. It was time for it to go, LOTS of great memories in this old hot tub! It was a great buy, but now we have reclaimed our patio and LOVE it.

My 59th birthday!

Thanks to Dad for arranging to have Becky and her kidlets over, I had a nice birthday. At work, no one remembered and I was kind of bummed, and I was getting a headache and my fibromyalgia was beginning to act up.

When I arrived home, what a fun surprise to find out that Dad had invited Becky and the kids over to celebrate my birthday, he had bought pizza so I didn't have to cook, and Becky brought over a cake!

I love having some of my grandkids so close.
Didn't Becky do a nice job with the cake?

After dinner I broke out the new Dance, Dance Revolution Disney that I had bought with funds for work and it needed testing, so who better to test it out than the grandkids! Tyler watched for a while, then decided that combing Grandpa's hair was much more fun.

Thanks again Dad, Becky, Drew, Katie, Dylan and Tyler!