Happy 40th anniversary to Grandma and Grandpa Boo! We spent last week at their house and did something fun every day. We had a great time from the Lighthouse to the Library to the Aquarium, to the beach, swimming with the Lotti's at their hotel, getting Abby's Legendary pizza and eating on the picnic bench on gma's and gpa's back porch. We didn't want to come home! The black and white photo is a photo setup at the lighthouse museum - is it real or fake?!? We didn't bring buckets or shovels on our beach outing because we though it'd be too cold and we'd just get our feet wet. Turned out to be pretty warm but we didn't need buckets or shovels to have a good time.
Some memorable moments from our time in Newport: Grandma read a book to the girls that repeated the word "ridiculous" over and over and it became the word of the week because the girls were so cute trying to say it. Ella would say "redic-li-ous." The girls played about the same amount of time at the Aquarium kids area climbing on the cement animals as they did looking around at the Aquarium. Keira crawled out of her pack-n-play one night to tell us that she went poo. Ella would bring out her picture she colored each night to hang on the fridge and catch us playing Ticket to Ride. Ella wanted to play too, but Travis had to point out that the game was only for people who were at least 8 years old like it says on the box. Keira talked to her teacup one night for a while after we tucked her in. We giggled listening to her as we played Ticket to Ride. Ella was almost tall enough to go inside the Yaquina Head Lighthouse this time but she was just shy of the required 42 inches. The bird stench at the lighthouse was insanely potent. Ella got to play Tokyo drift with dad (a racing video game) at Abby's pizza.
And last and best of all, we totally surprised grandma and grandpa boo with a 40th Anniversary luncheon. It almost didn't happen on two accounts but in the end they were totally surprised and it was worth it! Dad was scheduled to do a baptism on Saturday at 2 and didn't think it'd be a problem to still go out to lunch with us but he didn't realize we were planning a surprise anniversary party. As luck would have it, grandma, me, Ella, and Keira ran into their Bishop and his family the night we found out and told him about it and he covered it. And then mom said that she didn't want to come. But thanks to Travis she made it and didn't regret it. Ella and Keira were just as surprised as grandma and grandpa about the anniversary party (we didn't tell the girls about it for fear of a possible leak) but once they realized they got to play with their cousins, Ella and Keira were all smiles. Ella loved following Ailee around and playing with their iPad when she could. Overall I think that our trip was a success because we surprised grandma and grandpa and there was no car sickness!
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