10th Anniversary - Hamik / Tayler Memorial Weekend Beach Trip

We started out going to our family's beach house in Lincoln City with 3 families, which included 6 adults and one baby. We've evolved over the past 10 years to 2 families with 4 adults and 6 children. We take pics each year and they always end up looking exactly the same except the kids are a year older. We have routines that have become habit now like mom's do Memorial Weekend shopping at the outlets one morning and the dads go to their favorite beer spot, Mo's, for beer and clam chowder the next afternoon. The kids indulge the dads' campfire fixation by chowing on smores as many nights as they can squeeze out of them (adults are referred to as, "the moms" or "the dads".
This year we celebrated our 10th anniversary of the trip by doing an Olympics theme. We decorated the house in red/white/blue and put on Olympic games for 2 days. Team Campfire and Team Ocean competed hard, medals were awarded and ice-cream was slurped down after closing ceremonies. The pics show our spaghetti relay, limbo, obstacle course and more. Gotta love friends who are family!

Jump Jett Jump...

Jett came in first in his high jump event for the Ashland all-elementary school track meet. He also came in 3 in the 200 meters...who knew???

4 Chicks and a U-Haul...

My sis, Elizabeth, and I flew to Arizona to surprise our little sis, Sarah, and bring her back to Oregon. She's been traveling and teaching abroad for 2 years and we are so excited to have her home for awhile...as long as we can keep her down. She'll be living with us in Ashland going to massage school. My little peeps are crazy excited to have her living in "Heaven" our apt above the garage. We drove for 23 hours and slept 7 for a total trip of 30 hours start to finish. The U-Haul was meant for 2 and we improvised and made 4 seats out of it. We sang, read chapters about prominent women in history, munched and had a "lovely" lunch on Route 66...the actual road (pre-highway). Sweet memories were had and we celebrated our journey home with matching sister tatoos!






I'm the leg that was already shaved BEFORE the tatoo! :)

We are Siamese If You Please...

My little hip hoppers performed 2 shows to a packed house...first to M.J.'s BAD and then to We Are Siamese. Sailor was front and center leading the pack and Chase made herself front an center...who knows why?? Fun night and way fun to be the backstage mom for one of the nights.

Ahhh...sweet justice!

There's something satisfying about watching grown men try to tie their shoes with a huge pregnant belly. We had a couples baby shower for our friends who are making us feel young by continually procreating...they just delivered their 4th beautiful daughter, Madelyn. Most of the dads had never been to a baby shower so we did a brief game session which included smelly/tasting poop in a diaper, tasting baby food and of course, the shoe tying game...good times were had by all!
P.S. Josh is on the bottom pic left side and the dad-to-be-again-x4 is on the bottom pic right side. Mom-to-be-x4 is the tiny one with me looking barely pregnant and delivering a week later.