Cannon Beach

We went to the Oregon Coast for the Isaacson Family Rendezvous July 27th-30th We stayed in a house on the beach and it fit the whole Isaacson clan pretty well. We went to Cannon Beach and walked around it was very humid and misty which made for some fun pictures. We lost Abbie at the beach for a good half hour and everyone looked around franticly Jason found her alone crying. She managed to get quite a ways from us. It was such a relief to find her. And other than that experience we had a great time. We toured the Tillamook cheese factory which was really cool ( I recommend it). We stopped at the Tillamook smokehouse for pepperoni sticks and sausage. We had to get 7lbs. of salt water taffy, which did not last long. The Salt water taffy is the best on the coast and the shop we got it at, Bruce's candy kitchen, makes all the taffy there. We ate taffy until we were sick.

The girls went shopping at the outlet stores in Lincoln city for school clothes. It was loads of fun.

Janzten and Grandpa Isaacson's Birthdays were the 29th. To celebrate we ate crab that the guys and kids caught from a boat they rented. The crabs were not meaty at all they caught probably 25 and we got about 2 cups of meat off of them ( wrong time of year to catch crabs). But we got just enough for everyone in our big group to have a small taste that wanted some. It was lots of fun .

The girls went shopping at the outlet stores in Lincoln city for school clothes.

The House at Lincoln City Beach. It had a Hot tub and a pool table. With a nice little park area just off to the side of it.

Lyndie and Erick

Jason and Lyndie walking on Cannon Beach

Adam, Erick, Emily, Jacob and Addalee

Aria, Leif, Camden, Parker and Owen

Sarah and Matt

Nora and Lily

I love this Picture of Grandpa and Jaron

Kim, Lyndie and Abbie

Owen digging in the sand

Leif

Corey and Janzten running from the waves

Jared loved the water so much we couldn't keep him out. He kept going in face first and was soaked by the time we were done. The water was pretty cold too. What a nut!

Cole with his bucket of shells

Lyndie loved the sand and water.

Kim and Lyndie

Abbie

Grandpa Jaron and Sarah

Seth lost his feet

Abbie and cole trying to out run the waves

Seashells

3 amigos COLE CAMDEN & JACOB

Tyler enjoying the cold water

Jason and Lyndie

The Bonneville Fish Hatchery

We made a stop at the Bonneville Fish Hatchery on the Columbia River on our way home from the coast. The grounds were amazing. They were so well taken care of. It was beautiful. A definite worth while stop. We fed the giant rainbow trout. The kids were in awe at the big trout, until we made it to the last pool with the sturgeon. Holy Cow! They were enormous.

Jason helping Lyndie feed fish at the Rainbow trout pool.

The boys checking out the trout.

Grandpa and the boys.

Grandma and Grandpa Isaacson stopped with us and helped spot the fish.

The last pool was the most impressive. It had the Enormous Sturgeon

Grandpa Isaacson is trying to touch it here. I also got to touch it. It was a bit eery to see them after just watching shark attacks on the Discovery Channel that same week. I know they are not sharks but when they are swimming in the water their top fins come out of the water much like a shark.

If you look closely you can see the sturgeons fin coming out of the water (like a shark) by the log .

One of the Sturgeon in this pool is named Herman. He was around 80 years old and around 500 pounds and over 10 feet long. The sturgeon can get to be over 20 feet long and can weigh 1800 pounds.

Lyndie was so impressed.

Jared's Birthday

I just realized we only got video clips of jared's Birthday and no pictures so here is a short video of his birthday. He is wearing a lovely coon skin cap in the film ( One of his birthday gifts we got in Yellowstone). Jason took a picture of Jared'with birthday present from Grandma and Grandpa Marchant. He got cowboy stuff as you can see. Later Jared got cowboy boots from Grandpa and Grandma Isaacson. He is really loving the Cowboy stuff and wears his boots all the time.

I know I am way behind in my blogging and I have so much to post maybe I will some day get caught up. Jared's Birthday pictures will be next and then the trip to LaGrande and the Oregon Coast. But first......

Our Teenager

I can't believe we now have a teenager. I must be getting old. Tyler is such a great Teen to start the teen years out with though. He is such a great brother and helper.

Ty got this Jack O Connor book He says it's his all time favorite. He ready to join Jack's fan club.

We celebrated Tyler's Birthday with Adam and Emily's Family. Tyler wanted dutch oven chocolate cherry cobbler and homemade ice cream.

We played a mean trick on Tyler this year we went to Idaho Falls with Cole and Tyler's Birthday list to shop for them and told Tyler we must of mixed up his list with Cole's because we bought him Transformers. Ty was not pleased he was really wanting fishing gear ( is he his father's son or what?) Anyway Poor Ty was not too excited about his birthday. When he opened his presents he was so surprised to find fishing gear. I don't think he will ever believe us again. He was such a good sport about it.

This is a video of Tyler opening his presents and he is trying so hard not to cry and be happy he is getting transformers. Unfortunately Abbie was the one video taping so most of the video is of Tyler's hands and you can't see his facial expressions but you get the main idea from listening to what Tyler says.

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Tyler was soooo happy to get fishing gear instead of transformers.

We Love you Tyler!!!!

July 6, 2009

Attack of the Kitchen Beaters

The other day I was making a breakfast dinner of waffles with strawberry sauce, Baccon and eggs. Jason was gone to wrestling camp for the week and I was left to "hold up the fort". I had a lot going on in the kitchen and multi-tasking was becoming chaotic. So I asked Tyler to help me whip up the egg whites with the beaters for the Waffles. It takes a long time to get the egg whites to form stiff peaks like the recipe calls for. Tyler soon got tired of this job and managed to con his sister into doing it. Abbie was thrilled she grabbed the beaters and started giving tips to Tyler on how to do it right. All of the sudden Abbie started screaming a very high pitched death scream. I turned around to find her with the beaters wrapping themselves up in her hair. I ran over and tried to turn off the mixer but the panic mode set in and I couldn't quite find the off button fast enough. I managed to get it turned off but the beater had done an amazing job of wrapping her hair around itself. I can honestly say I have never seen anything like it before. Her hair was wrapped so tightly around the beaters I couldn't get the beaters to eject and they were pressed up against her head so tight they were making indentions into her scalp. Through all the screaming I managed to get her to the living room chair. Abbie kept saying "get it off, get it off!" and "I just can't do this." she did not want me to cut her hair at first but as time went on and my attempts to save her hair were not working and the pain was increasing she decided to resort to having me cut her hair. I was sick about it. I went to get the scissors. I just pictured her with her whole left front side of her head with her hair gone. This would be similar to being scalped by an Indian in the days of the pioneers. This was not just a few strands of hair and it was right to her scalp. I couldn't bare to cut it so I tried one more time. Amazingly one small strand came lose and I was able to eject the beaters. Once the beaters ejected her hair untangled in a matter of seconds. She some how lost a small patch of hair on the top of her head but it wasn't to noticeable. I guess some one was watching out for her. The funny thing was I could not find the patch of hair any where. It wasn't until we were eating dinner that Abbie some how found the missing piece hanging with the rest of her hair. Abbie managed to make it through this attack with only a few bruises and a small piece of hair missing. I guess this is why they teach you to put your hair in a ponytail when working in the Kitchen in Home ec. I am still puzzled about how she got her hair caught in the beaters in the first place. "DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME."

The Burger King

Jared fell asleep in our bed wearing a Burger King crown. What a goof!

A Birthday Marathon

Okay, so what were we thinking? We have five birthdays all within in a two months time span. It is like Christmas in June and July all over again. Family planning was not on our priorty list when we started having children. (Why did I not think about it) Abbie starts this birthday Marathon out June 1st. Then Cole and Lyndie are next June 24th and June 25th followed by Tyler on July 6th and Jared on July 13th. I am tired just thinking about it. Yes, that's right Cole and Lyndie are a day apart and we celebrated their Birthdays on the 24th. ( I know we are evil parents) But Cole and Lyndie didn't mind. We had Adam and Emily's family over. Cole and Lyndie opened presents and then we had homemade ice cream and homemade rootbeer.

Lyndie Jean

Lyndie turned 2 on the 25th she hasn't changed a ton. She has us all wrapped around her little finger. She just bats her little eyes at Tyler and Corey and they melt. They would do anything for her.

This is the Jacket and outfit Grandpa and Grandma Isaacson sent Lyndie. She loved the jacket and didn't want to take it off even though it was Hot out.

Lyndie loved opening the presents.

Adam and Emily got Lyndie a stuffed Horse. She was in Heaven since she loves to suck her fingers and rub hair. The Horse has great hair to rub.

Here are a couple of her baby pictures. Not much has changed her hair is maybe a millimeter longer. She adds so much to our family and we have decided that she completes this family unit. What a blessing to have her.

Aaron Cole

Cole turned 7 on the 24th. He is such a nut. We took him out for his Birthday dinner a tradition my parents started with us growing up. The Birthday kid gets to choose a place to eat out with just Mom and Dad. Cole chose the Fish place here in town. We took him out and talk about showing no emotion. We asked him questions about how he liked his dinner. " Oh, its good" He didn't say it with any sort of excitement. Some times its hard to tell if he is having a good time. I had to laugh before we went out to eat we cooked Corndogs and pizza for the other kids and Cole asked if they would save him a Corndog. He order coconut shrimp at the fish place and ate it pretty good but when we got home amazingly there was a corndog left and he ate it. I guess we could have just stayed home and had corndogs and he would have been just as happy. But it was fun to go out with him and spend time with just him. I have loved doing this with all the kids. It's been a special time to get to be with just them.

Cole got a spring action star wars light saber, A Coonskin cap and some transformers.

Here are a few pictures of our little Cole.