Easter on the Coast and Life's Simple Pleasures

Well this Easter Aaron and I went to the Oregon Coast for the weekend and spent some time in Newport, which is about an hour from Salem. It was a lot of fun. Saturday was nice, great weather, all in all it was a beautiful day. We spent some time on the beach reading and I even got to take a nap on the beach. It was great. Sunday was freezing cold and we spent the day in the hotel. We had a great view of the ocean from our hotel and were able to watch the storm outside from the comfort of our warm room. However, we did get a little stir crazy for part of the day and we went for a drive and stopped at a few spots to check out the view. Then we came back and cooked brats in the microwave. Yummy! (Actually it wasn't too bad). It made me reminisce about my Easters as a kid. When we were up at my grandpa and grandma Penrod's, they would make colorful Easter sacks filled with candy and toys and hide them all over the farm, each sack would have our names on them. It was a lot of fun. Then my grandpa would build a big fire and we would have our annual "weenie" roast. The years we weren't up in Genola with my grandparents, my mom would color easter eggs with us and pack a big lunch with all of the wonderful Easter trimmings like my mom's amazing potato salad and baked beans. We would go somewhere and my dad would find a big dirt hill and carve trails down the hill with a big spoon and then we would race our eggs. What fun we had. My parents always took time to make sure that we did a little something every now and then, it may not have been a big trip to Disneyland, but to us it was so much fun and the memories are now priceless. Thinking about the good times as a kid, and enjoying sitting in the hotel room with Aaron eating our Brats it reminded me that life is full of simple pleasures to be enjoyed, and I definitely had a few simple pleasures this weekend. It was so nice to relax and not run around 100 mph, and just spend time with Aaron.










(These last two pictures are of the worlds smallest bay at Depoe Bay, Oregon. The channel to get into this bay is only about 50 ft wide and 6 or so ft deep. Wouldn't that be fun to navigate through!)