Easter weekend

Every Easter we head to the beach for a full weekend of Easter relaxation with just us and the boys. Its become one of my favorite family traditions that we've started. This year due to Jakes work schedule, we had to make it a shorter weekend. We figured with it being a shorter weekend than were used to taking for Easter, we'd choose a new location for our stay. This year we went to Garibaldi. I was craving some squeeky cheese from the Tillamook Factory, so Garibaldi was the town we chose to stay at. I realized when we got there, that I had never been to that little town before. It was a nice & relaxing, yet quick weekend. I was thankful for the bad weather and time crunch though, because I didnt realize there was no beach to play on there...and had we had more time and good weather Id have felt really guilty for taking my kids to the beach and not letting them go out ON the beach.
We arrived to our hotel and had dinner at a Pirate Resturaunt...honestly I cant remember the name, just that it was Pirate something or other. A little spendy and really smelly (guess thats expected at the beach hu?), but the food was pretty good. We went back to our hotel and headed straight for the pool for some water time fun. Its so fun to watch the boys in the water these days. Before our Hawaii trip this winter the boys were sort of timid in the pool, now they are crazy little fish. Once we finished up at the pool, we headed to our room to dye easter eggs. Then it was to bed so that the Easter Bunny could find us and hopefully leave some suprises. This trip was a little hard on the Easter Bunny. Typically we try to stay in places that have full apartment type stays (living room, kitchen, bedroom, etc..our fav is Gearhart by the Sea) so its easy to have him visit and set up things in the living area while the boys are in the bedroom, but this trip we stayed in your typical studio hotel room. Because of this, the Easter Bunny couldnt make an appearance until the boys were completley asleep (I think he showed up in our room close to 2am when the boys finally fell asleep, whew!)...and even at that, he had to run a few times as little boys stirred in bed. Thankfully he was able to hide some eggs (40+ of them) around our room (and on the boys heads), set up their basket suprises and leave before morning uncaught. The boys woke to many fun suprises and were very happy little boys. Their baskets were full to the brim with toys and treats. Eli's special suprise was the next 10 books in his Magic Treehouse Series books. Zach got the Chipmunk Squeekuel movie and CD...which we rocked out to on our drive home. On our way home, we stopped and had ice cream and cheese at the Tillamook Cheese Factory and came home with lots of yummy cheese for the fridge. It may have been a short trip, but it was another amazing family Easter weekend at the beach for the Waibels.

Eli showing off his almost empty ice cream bowl at the Tillamook Cheese Factory.

mmmmm Zach enjoying his ice cream

The boys watching the workers make cheese. Jake and I both agreed that we'd go completley nutts if we had to work that job, could you imagine doing the same thing over and over and over...makes me crazy to think about it. My hat goes off to those cheesemakers, they are amazing at what they do!

Zachy and the cows...awwww

Eli and the cows....ahhhhhh what a goof.

Silly boys!

Checking out the boat in front of the Factory.

Showing off their loot from the Easter bunny...here they are showing their Snuggables (or Snuggamoo as Zach calls his)

Zach has a slight addiction to toy cars.

Eli and some of his Magic Treehouse books.

Eggs!

Silly Easter bunny, hiding eggs on the sleeping children...

showing off their dyed eggs

will he ever take a serious picture for me ever ever EVER again in his life? I swear, Im starting to believe all the comments that I ruined him by taking too many pictures of him when he was little.

Painting eggs...

We let the boys go in the sauna with Jake breifly to see how it worked. They were in amazement, or maybe fear, that Daddy was dumping water on electrical rocks. They both came out because it was too hot and hurt their eyes.

Zach in the pool, he just loves his snorkel gear from Hawaii....I love hearing him talk through the tube.

Eli having fun in the water.

This one freaks me out, so I had to share. Eli was moving his head so fast that his face is gone. Sort of reminds me of poltergeist.

That about wraps up our fabulous Easter weekend, hope all of you had a great weekend as well!