A Week Away

We went to the Oregon coast last week to visit Rory's family. Man oh man is that a long drive with a baby. We took two days to do it and Madelyn traveled very well. She mostly just slept. Yay! We also took her on her first camping trip on the way over. The first night of driving we pulled off the road onto a forest service road and pitched our tent there. She slept beautifully.

Family pics.

Four generations of O'Connors + non-O'Connors who still got to be in the picture.

Sherri and baby

Great grandma O'Connor and teeny

Grandpa O'Connor and tiny

We went Frisbee golfing a lot while we were there but I never actually took any pictures of it. Here's Rory and Madelyn cuddling right before a game.

Kipp and Kathleen got some cuddle time in too.

Later that day Rory helped his sister feel beautiful.

We took a day trip to Florence while we were there and had clam chowder and a walk along the board walk.

Grandpa O'Connor helped Madelyn to her first bunny ear picture.

The Wii entertained us for countless hours.

Madelyn thinking about her first solid food.

Terence and Sherri had a gorgeous flower garden so I had to snap a few shots of that.

We decided to go tide pooling one day. Mostly I fed the baby but everyone said they saw cool stuff. I apologize to all the innocent tidepoolers who had to see me doing an emergency feeding session on the beach. The car was too far away.

Kipp kissed a starfish.



After our beach excursion we went sand boarding. That was fun! Except we all got sand down our pants. It makes for an uncomfortable ride home.

Rory was such a nice dad and built our baby a hut to keep her out of the sun. Yeah... that lasted about two minutes before she'd had it. Good thought though.

On the last day we took some beauty shots.