the Flores 5: our first series of visitors

My brother and his family arrived Thursday morning. Despite their exhaustion, they agreed to go to the coast with us. It was in the 90's that day (for Oregon, that kind of heat calls for a heat advisory!) but 70 degrees on the coast. It was a beautiful day.
Friday Jared flew back to Utah to pick up the Civic and drive it back on Saturday. So needless to say, he was pretty tired for the holiday. We still have fun regardless.
It's been nice to have visitors, makes it feel more like home to have loved ones around. Kyler announced to me, that it does feel like home now. Tomorrow we're heading to camp on the beach, one of our favorite things.
Oh, and our pumpkin plants are thriving! The kids and I planted them from seeds I had scraped from our pumpkin last year and bagged, and now there are around 15 plants growing! We're so excited. Kyler, being the money minded kid he is, wants to sell them. Nerd!
Hope everyone had a great holiday! Today is my brother, Joey's birthday...wish he was here! Hope he has a great day regardless, he deserves it...he's an amazing person and we all love and miss him dearly!

Thursday, at home:
Kyler was reading a book on Ocean facts to Orion and Lexi

we FINALLY hung our photos and artwork, feels more like home now!

wildflower on the coast

the drive to the coast, Gabriel passed out!

Lexi has a new fascination with pregnancy, so she has a baby in her tummy

Lexi greeting her cousin, Gabriel

Kyler and Orion playing

Thursday, Seal Rock:
more seals

Johnny and all 4 kids

Seal Rock

Jared and Johnny plunging into the ice cold water

Lexi and daddy

the boys digging in the sand

the drive home from the Ocean, this is becoming tradition...one I can thoroughly appreciate!

how sweet is this? daddy and daughter silhouettes playing in the ocean

she fell asleep on the drive home as well

climbing on the rocks

look at this girl and how she poses!

July 4th:

Jared's drive from Utah to Oregon, bringing home the Civic

This photo give you a clear shot of the three sister volcanoes

His one day in Utah, he got to meet our new nephew and visit our niece, here Kennedee is sleeping

This is Navy, he's adorable, totally perfect!

Our 4th of July celebration, Jared was exhausted so we just went to my dad's and had our own show, we had a great evening.
Gabriel, Kyler, Jared and Lexi