Our Little Getaway

We took a couple days off work the end of this week to make a quick trip to the coast. We headed south to explore a few places we hadn't been to. It was a very relaxing trip and we loved spending the time together.


Lincoln City

Some beach time... the sun was out and we were lucky to catch this picture with Scott's eyes open.

We found several rocks on the beach with these perfectly cylindrical holes worn in them.

Scott found this driftwood with a mermaid on it.

                           We found some pretty soft rocks that would break easily... but every time
                    we went to capture King Kong crushing one on video, he just buried it... it was fun.



Newport

The Yaquina Head Lighthouse just north of Newport.  It is the tallest in Oregon and
other cool and important facts we can't remember.

It is getting harder and harder to find a flattering angle these days...

We strolled along the bayfront.

We ate a yummy seafood lunch overlooking the bay. 

A couple sea lions sunbathing.

Yachats (pronounced ya-hots)

We stayed at a lodge/spa that was a lot of fun. Not pictured are the massages
and spa time. It was perfect!

We were right on a rocky beach and had a great view from our window.

We saw these cairns that someone had created... Scott was inspired and had to create one of his own.

                                                    It was much, much bigger of course...

Florence

This is Cape Perpetua, also known as the highest point on the Oregon coast.

There was a car show the next day in town so we saw some fun old cars.

We stopped by the sea lions cave. They sing beautiful songs...
We also saw a few orcas heading north from this view point. Very fun.

Most of the sea lions were outside enjoying the nice weather, but the cave was still really cool.

We found a windy beach and flew our patriotic kite.

Our Baby Boy

Friday we had our big ultrasound, and the gender of our baby was revealed... he was not bashful about showing us his goods. He seemed real comfortable with his legs stretched out. We were surprised at how much he moved around and how much detail we could see. Here are some of the fun pictures, they aren't quite as good as seeing him moving in real life.

First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, Then Comes...

We wanted to do something fun and creative to announce our good news. We had a lot of fun working on these projects for our family, and we gave the gifts over the Easter weekend. We are really excited for our new addition, and we are happy our family is as well. Our baby is due September 14th!

For the Layton grandparents...

Grandpa wouldn't drive anything other than a Ford...
so this was a necessary detail.

Scott's little sister is also expecting in September!

For the Quinton clan...

For the Layton siblings...

We find out Friday the gender of our little one...

The One Motorcycle Show in Portland

We stopped by the one motorcycle show in Portland last month. Here is a taste of some of the things we saw.

I really liked some of the details on the bikes, like this tank with the crease that fades.
The little hand worked details were cool.



There was some fun wall art stuff people were selling. Pretty cool.



This bike had cool leather details, but it was pretty clean and simple besides... fun details.

These old full faring bikes were bright and fun. Oh, the curves.

More full faring stuff.

Rolland Sands bike... a CR something frame and engine, but streetbike treatment. Kind of fun in a way.

 

Classy.



This Triumph was kind of cool in its own way.



Dad said he rode an old Arial like this one I believe. A block 4 motor or something crazy.



This airbrush artist was good, and one of my favorite parts.
The old board track bike was cool too.



Ice Ice Baby

Winter this year has been pretty great here in Portland, it hasn't been as dark and rainy as I told Trisha it was going to be.  We've actually had quite a bit of sun.  We did have a week or something where it did get cold enough up in the hills where we live to get some snow though.  As a result, we saw some driving that I've never seen before, and we had some good laughs about it.  That cold spurt happened to be right before a weekend trip we had planned to go back up to Connell to watch Trisha's little sister play basketball.  What is normally a three and a half hour drive for us was a six and a half hour drive instead!  Most of the drive was in freezing rain, and it got pretty hairy at times.  We saw more cars, trucks, and semis off the roads than we wanted to keep track of.  The pictures only kind of do it justice.  There were sections of the drive that we stopped at every exit to deice the wipers.  Some exits we took but never stopped because we wouldn't have been able to get going again.  Anyway, we got there without any problems and Brittney won her game... so what's the big deal?