What a week!!

It has been a while since I have posted because Matt had a rare vacation. He was off from the 1st to the 5th. June 1st was our 5 year anniversary. That means we have officially been a couple for 10 years.. wow. For our actual anniversary we dropped the kids off at Grandma Davis house and went our to Red Lobster. I had never had lobster before so I ordered the steak and lobster. Then I remembered why I never order seafood. Yuck. No harm - Matt was happy, he ate it :) Also, the steak was real fatty and I ended up getting it free, cooool. Overall it was an excellent dinner and nice to spend the alone time with Matt.

To officially celebrate our anniversary we headed to the coast on the 3rd (Sunday). Grandma Davis, Aunt Bethany, and "GG" were kind enough to follow us up to the coast so they could keep the kids occupied and Matt and I could have some quality time. We made it to Newport at about 10:30 and checked in for our 2 hour cruise -- I have lots of pics, I will post a few later. On the cruise we saw two big grey whales -- NEAT! Matt and I both drove the boat -- THAT was cool.

After the cruise we met up with the gang and headed to Lincoln City to check into our hotel -- Jonathan and Alissa both fell asleep on the way to the hotel -- it was about 2pm at this point. We checked in at the Siletz Bay Lodge room 407 -- top floor with two queen beds and a balcony. After checking in Alissa and Jonathan went off with Grandma to play on the beach (Mo's was walking distance from the hotel so they went to that beach) and Matt and I headed to Chinook Winds casino to eat.

We got to the casino about 3:30 and found out they didn't serve dinner until 4:30 so we decided to try our hand at gambling for awhile. We did terrible, but had lots of fun. We played the penny games which were a lot of fun. I played one "Cops and Donuts" game and did pretty good -- figures. :) All and all we ended up sponsering the cansino that day and def. left with less then we came in with. Oh well. We ate the buffet dinner -- YUM! The best part was the authentic Indian fry bread -- a big indian man made it while you watched. Matt made his into a taco and I had a dessert style with cinnamon sugar -- WOW. After dinner we tried our hand at Bingo -- that was hard! You have to really pay attention. We lost. Time to leave!

From the casino we stopped at a Mcminnemans and tried a bunch of beer samples. Then back to the hotel room. We said goodbye to Grandma Davis, GG, and Beth.. Alissa and Jonathan stayed the night with us. The hotel beds were horrible, but we survived.

In the morning we took the kids to the beach and had a great time. Matt even tried his hand at clam digging -- and caught a clam! Who'd of thought? Alissa was impressed. It got cold and started to rain so we scurried off to Mo's and had lunch. First time EVER I have eaten at Mo's and it wasn't a madhouse. Of course this was Monday morning. After lunch we went to Tanger Outlet and hit a few stores before the kids went insane from lack of sleep -- time to go home. Ali and Jonathan both crashed on the way to Salem. What a weekend.

Monday evening I dragged myself to Thompson's for my final ASL class get together. It was a great time. We were not allowed to use our voices at all or acknowledge anything we heard. Definately more challenging. It was a great experience. Matt watched the munchkins while I was out.

Tuesday was my final OSD ASL class. I brought the whole family for potluck and swimming. Alissa and I did the swimming thing and had a lot of fun. Ali is getting a lot better at dunking under water. You can tell swimming classes are helping her confidence.

Today -- nothing but laziness. :) Trying to catch up on sleep and get back into our routine. The kids are both napping now, and I'm thinking about joining them although my house really needs some attention. Until next time...


--April