Best Friends

So I have to start off by saying that I uploaded all of my pictures backwards and there's too many pictures to go back and re-do the whole thing. So this post will be from our last day to the first day of our best friend vacation.

For those of you who don't know, my best friend and Darrick's best friend married eachother. So we look forward to all of our times spent with them because I get to be with my BFF and Darrick is with his. So Gina and Pat and their 2 girls, Jenna and Jillian took a road trip and drove from Southern California all the way to Oregon to see us. We were all so excited because it's been so long since we spent more than one day or night together. Our girls were as excited as we were.

We got a babysitter on the last night of their trip here and had an adult night out. We went to Portland City Grill. It's downtown in the city on the 30th floor, where there are beautiful views of the city. This is Pat and Gina's face when we got the bill. We were shocked to see that it was over $200 for appetizers and drinks. This picture of them is priceless!
This is a view of Mt. Hood in the distance

Aren't they adorable?

These next pictures are of Cannon Beach. We spent 2 nights there with Gina & Pat & the girls and it was all of our favorite part of their trip here.

So this picture is taken after Ashlyn had ice cream. Something happens to her only after she eats ice cream and she gets so giddy and silly. She cracks us up. She wrote her name in the sand and wanted her picture with it.

Down by the tide pools with Jordyn, Jillian, and Jenna

Ashlyn was posing with everything and wanted her picture taken everywhere. Very out of character for her, but not surprised after eating ice cream. She's crazy like that!

Still posing

At a pizza place for dinner.

She wanted me to take her picture posing on Daddy's shoulders

Here's where it all began...with the ice cream!

The huge hole that some friends we met helped the kids dig.

In front of "Haystack Rock"

Pat found this huge sand crab, Ash wanted her picture with it but didn't want to hold it.

The girls playing in the freezing cold water, they didn't mind at all.

Ash was staying away from the water since a wave had taken her out, fully clothed, the day before.

The smoke from the fire was burning their eyes.

The first night Pat & Darrick hung out by the fire until 11:30pm. Gina and I took all the girls up to bathe them and put them to bed. They were happy as could be by the fire. They had a cabana boy bringing them fire wood and umbrellas when it started to spinkle.

All the kiddos ready for bed!!

The first night the hotel had a wienie roast on the beach with Smores.

Each girl had their own terry cloth robe.

On the swings in Seaside

Best Friends Forever!

At lunch the restaurant provided Mr. Potato Head's for the girls to play with.

All the girls were so excited to pet every dog that walked by.

Who knew that Vito had a restaurant in Seaside, Oregon?

It took only about 10 minutes for the girls to find the dress-up clothes and start dancing!

This is a trip that Darrick and I will remember forever. We have so many great memories and I can only hope that there are many more trips like this in our future. We love our BFF's!!