Oregon is BEAUTIFUL! You should go!

It is going to take me awhile to catch up from all the things I have missed in my blogging life, but let me just go ahead an start by saying that we had an incredible trip to Oregon. We went for a conference with Campus Crusade, and it was so wonderful. Vince and I felt so encouraged, and challenged, and really feel more prepared for our ministry, and to handle our personal finances. After the 4 day conference Vince and I took a few days to go visit Oregon, and to spend time with my family! It was great, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves!

me and my little sister Caitlin

Vince and my little brother Connor watching football

Vince and I at the Conference centerThis is what I saw out the window while we were listening to speakers at the Conference... it was a little hard to concentrate with that amazing view. One morning the whole valley was filled with fog, and you could not even see the whole deck!

Vince out front of the conference center! Can you believe this was 20 feet from our bedroom??

We took a quick trip to the coast during the Conference and it was amazing!Me and SaraThe rocky cliffs were breathtaking, and fun to hike around!We saw the W River- the world's shortest river! No joke! It really was not that impressive. After the Conference we took a few days to enjoy God's creation- we started at Cannon Beach and this was our super-cute cottage!This is a normal day at the beach!We got there right as the tide went out so we got to play in the tide-pools and we saw all kinds of stuff... fish, sea anemonies, crabs and starfish. We saw SO many starfish, they were bright orange and purple.Vince hiking around the tide-pools. The view from the top. If you look at the shore line, you can see cannon beach and maybe even our little cottage!
The next morning we went and saw Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach. How the heck does a boulder this gigantic get out in the ocean? It was amazing, and there were boulders everywhere!I missed Jonas, and there were puppy prints everywere. I took this picture to email back to him. Then Vince called me crazy and so I never did send the email. We drove down the coast and did a "3 Cape Scenic Tour" and it was so cool. We just stopped different places all day. This was inside the lighthouse we saw!Vince keeping an eye out for ships coming. There was am Octopus Tree! It was just a normal tree that was really strange because of the high winds coming from the coast. We couldn't figure out why only 1 tree was like that, but I guess we are not smart enough... And we also were not smart enough to not get our rental car stuck in the sand... A caring man stopped and helped tow us out. Ha! Vince hated that I even took this picture. How could I not?More of the Scenic Cape Tour= Amazing. That night we drove to Salem and we stayed there and the next morning we got up and went to hike Silver Falls- an 8 mile hike where we got to see 10 waterfalls! It was FANTASTIC!! We were BEHIND a waterfall!

Then my camera battery died... so you miss seeing us having sore legs and tired faces later that day, and fun with my family later that weekend.

All in all we had a BLAST!!

You should go too!