Our Travels Day #9, July 17, 2010

Birch Bay!

  A day of fun with Cory and Autum's family (plus Links 3 kids), and Heather and their 4 youngest kids.

My brother Cory and his nephew Link.

Sharlotte Whittern, Ariel Salinger, Scout Whittern and Kaitlynn Salinger catching baby crab.

Hunter and Shane were determined to get a fire started with Shane's magnifying glass.

Cute Couple!  Autum and Cory Whittern.

Yes...this would be my brother!

Link Andersen.

Another picture of them trying to start a fire.

Myself with Steven.

The three oldest girls, Kierstynn, Shanoah and Nicole.

Kaitlynn Salinger, Sharlotte and Scout.

Sierra Andersen.

myself wearing Steven and trying to take pictures when he wasn't moving!

My nephew Hunter enjoying the water.

Autum and myself with Steven's head poking around my shoulder.  I think I can see why most people think her and I are the ones related instead of Cory and I.

Whew! Finally got Link to sleep!

Kierstynn's feet after she got her Leather Chaco Sandals wet!  As she says "caution cone orange!"

Shale

Myself, Sierra Andersen and Sharlotte Whittern.

Love this girl, she is soooo much fun!

The group!  We used Autum's tri-pod to capture this one.

Left to right:

Heather Whittern, Autum Whittern, Cory Whittern with Link Anderson, Dan Salinger, Sheilla Salinger with Steven Coe Salinger.

Shane Whittern, Hunter Whittern, Ariel Salinger, Nicole Whittern, Kierstynn Salinger and Shanoah Whittern.

Scout Whittern, Skyler Whittern, Kaitlynn Salinger, Sharlotte Whittern, Sierra Anderson, Shale Whittern, Bryanna Salinger and Caitlin Anderson.

Dan playing with Skyler, he really enjoys this little guy!

Someones treasures from the day.

gathered around the bucket of baby crab they all caught.

My sister in law Autum Whittern.

Caitlin, Hunter, Skyler and Kierstynn playing with the baby crabs.

This is what they were catching, they would dig them out from under the rocks, gravel etc.

Cory snoozing with Link.

Autum doing Ariel's hair.

My Ariel

Autum, Cory and Link.

Check this out!   Skyler, Kierstynn Caitlin Anderson.

Heather Whittern (my sister in law).

Fun Memories!

Kaitlynn Salinger, Bryanna Salinger and Sharlotte Whittern.

Cory trying to give the boys a hand with the fire starting.

My sister in law, Heather Whittern.

He's awake!

They were so into catching those little crabs!

Shale

Caitlin Anderson

Scout's collection of crab.

Scout proudly showing of his collection of crab.

Ariel

Kaitlynn Salinger and Caitlin Anderson, they had so much fun together!

And yes they were still trying to make fire!

Link, Autum and Bryanna.

Scout sharing his favorite rock he found, covered in barnacles.

Dan and Sky.

Skyler playing fetch instead of catch with Uncle Cory, not sure if it was intentional or not but the ball never seemed to land where he could catch it and it would splash him instead.

See what I mean?!

Kaitlynn Joy with her bucket of crab.

Kierstynn trying to warm up and dry off.

Steven Coe getting introduced to football.

Hunter dizzy from blowing up his catipillar float.

He's making progress.

She is supposed to be taking a nap. Hmmmm.....

Ahhhh...finally done blowing it up, now to enjoy it!

Shane and Hunter.

Two cousins, buddies, Shale and Scout.

Nicole, Ariel, Scout and Shale Crab hunting.

Ariel

Brian and Heather's son Scout (7 years old)

The bucket of crabs, poor little guys, though they did release them when we left.  Wonder if they survived or not?

Link and Steven playing together.

Kierstynn took these at the tide pools.

And last picture of our day at the beach is of Skyler!  

We had a great day, the weather was gorgeous and we enjoyed being with everyone!






After our day at the beach we all went back to Cory's for some Taco Bell dinner, soccer playing, swimming and ice cream Sundaes.  All of Brian and Heathers kids who were there minus Skyler stayed the night along with all of our kids minus Steven.  Are Cory and Autum brave or what?!  Thank you Cory and Autum!  That is a memory the kids will always remember.  This was our last night together so we ended up staying pretty late.

Heidi and Hunter, soccer is one of Heidi's very favorite things!

Nicole, Ariel, Heidi the dog and Shanoah, playing soccer.

The big boys, Shale (age 11) and Hunter (age 13)

Dan watching Steven play with the basketball.

Ice cream time!  Yum!
Dan, Caitlin Anderson, Sierra Anderson, Sharlotte Whittern

Shale enjoying his Sundae!

Cory dishing up Ice Cream for Shane and Hunter.

Aunt Autum feeding Ice Cream to baby Link, while daddy Link holds him.

Heather and Hunter.

Link, Link, Shane and Hunter at the Ice Cream Sundae table.

Skyler taking a swim at Sunset.

Lot's of cousins in the pool!

Sky is the guy!

Yes...this guy is related to me.

Skyler is so cute that he was able to talk big Link (Senior) into riding a bike which apparently it's been years since he has riden one.  

Link Sr. and Skyler out for a bike ride in the field.  This picture is priceless! 
(Link is my sister in law Autum's dad).

Kaitlynn and Sharlotte enjoying their last evening together.

Cory getting in on the soccer game along with the kids and the two dogs.

Steven and Dan, he looks so much like his daddy!

Myself and Steven, can hardly believe he is a year old now! 
 We are so blessed to have him!

This funny picture is of me trying to capture video on my camera of Steven playing with the basketball.  It was so cute, and if I could ever figure out how to get video on here you could see it.

My brother Brian's wife, Heather Whittern, looking gorgeous as usual, 
even after spending all day at the beach!

The three sisters, Heather Whittern, Sheilla Salinger and Autum Whittern.

Steven doing what he does best crawling and getting into everything!