Gotta get away!

When you live with your parents, and your sister and her family, quality "family" time is hard to come by. Jesse and I have been feeling like we need to get away and "reconnect", uh...not in a dirty way, so we planned a trip to the beach. We figured if we waited till the end of February I would be feeling better so we made reservations for this past weekend at Seaside. Turns out I am still not feeling great all the time and this would mean I would have to not take my medicine again for a few days, but I didn't want to wuss out and we really did need to get out. At the last minute we decided to take Peyton along and make it a family trip. It was going to be a lot more challenging but a lot of fun too!

On Thursday night we headed out with a full car and empty stomachs. We couldn't wait till we got there to eat so we stopped at Sizzler in Longview, filled our tummys and then continued on to Seaside. Even though we got there at 8 or so, they still had to check and make sure our room was clean, and turns out it wasn't, so they upgraded us to Ocean front at no extra charge (big bonus since we are too cheap to ever get those rooms.) Peyton enjoyed the view, and the room, there were lots of things to play with, especially the phone. It was too late to really do anything so we just hung out in the room and then set up Peyton's crude bedroom, a sheet draped over part of the room to create a barrier so he couldn't see us. He actually slept and napped surprisingly well. Peyton making his very important phone calls, he would actually say hello, some gibberish, the bye. It was too cute!

At Pig N Pancake after he drank some of Jesse's grapefruit juice.

Friday started out with a breakfast at must-do Pig N Pancake, then shop hopping for a while. We took him on his first trip on a carousel, that was entertaining. The poor little guy was so scared and crying that we had to stop it and let Jesse ride with him and even then he didn't seem to enjoy it too much (we are such mean parents.) It's a little blurry, but you get the point, he was not having fun!

After a trip down to the water where Peyton chased seagulls, and a quick trip through the aquarium (not super exciting, but P liked pointing and say "fish") we headed to Peyton's favorite part of the trip, the arcade! He just watched us play at first and then pretended to drive some cars before he found his calling in life...Deal or No Deal. I swear he was in heaven, all those buttons to push and the lights and the noise, oh my! He could have stayed there all day and been perfectly happy, but we had to leave so he could take a nap and that upset him, I just love public tantrums. Peyton and Jesse at Peyton's true love, Deal or No Deal, he made better deals when he played with me

Jesse doing a jump roping game and Peyton below, imitating what he saw dad do
Me showing off my baller skills

A sweet filled trip through the candy store rounded out the first part of our day, so we headed back to catch some zzz's. That evening was a short shopping trip to the outlets, some room service, and then the pool. That kid loves the water and he had a ton of fun, even when he was freezing. Again we had to force him to leave, but he calmed down when he got to play in the shower.


By Saturday we were all tired and my pelvic bone was really hurting (pregnancy side effect), so we made the short trip to Cannon Beach with the intent of only being there a little while. Mom and Dad met us down there and we took Peyton out to the water and to see Haystack Rock, but the tide was in so we couldn't walk out there. We took mom and dad out to lunch at Fultano's Pizza and then headed home. Peyton was asleep before we left Cannon Beach. I then had the bright idea that we should pick Rockband up since we were going to be getting home so soon, and then we could extend the vacation a little bit. After lots of searching we finally found it, but then I didn't really feel good enough to play it for too long, go figure. It was a really fun trip and it was nice for us to just be us for a while. Hopefully Jesse and I can escape by ourselves for a little bit soon, we could probably use it!