Fun times with the fam!

At the end of April, we had some very fun visitors.  Mike's Dad and "little" brother, Rem came to visit!  Rem hadn't been to the Oregon Coast before, so we had a great time showing them around.

The first day they were here, we all got to go to Mike's work for a formal event at Mike's hospital.  We tried to get a nice picture of all of us, but this was the best we could come up with... 

Bear is not enjoying this

I tried tickling K-Man to get a smile, but we still couldn't quite get one of all of us looking at the camera

Yeah, it was waaay past Bear's nap time, so this is how the afternoon ended:

Thanks, Uncle Rem!

After the formal event, we got to get out and have some fun.  First, we took the all-important trip to our favorite candy store for some saltwater taffy. 

The beginning of a serious sugar high

Then we climbed the Astoria column and flew balsa airplanes off the top.  Mike is always super-dad when we go.  After we throw all of our planes, he runs down all 164 steps (the column is over 12 stories high), and retrieves all the airplanes he can find so we can throw them again.  The kids love it!!  What a dad!

The boys at the top of the column overlooking the mouth of the Columbia River

Uncle Rem flying his plane

After the column and some delicious burgers, we hopped on the trolley to take a ride and see the sights.

K-Man loves these two guys!

Then, of course we had to ride the carousel

Normally this is fun times for everyone and it takes all of our parental powers to get the boys OFF the carousel, but for some reason Bear was terrified the entire time this time around 

And what would a trip to the coast be without... the ocean?

Abuelo with K-Man

At Haystack Rock... such an interesting rock that Bear can't take his eyes off it, even for the pic!

K-Man decided that standing was too boring and struck a pose instead.

Abuelo and the boys playing some sort of volleyball/frisbee hybrid

Since there was a negative tide while they were here, Mike was able to take them clamming early one morning.  It had been kind of stormy the day before so they only found small ones.  But they had a pretty good time anyway.

Rem with his clam gun

Mike with one of the larger clams they were able to find

And when we weren't at the ocean or out around town, we were chilling at the house and having all sorts of fun.

K-Man loooves Abuelo's Nook.

Brings back fond memories of when I was a kid.  What's more fun than this??!

We love having our loved ones come and spend time with us!  Thanks for coming Dan and Rem!!