28 foot waves? Oh my!

Ok, not really. They weren't nearly as big or scary as the weather people made it sound.
We went to Ocean Shores last weekend to camp(in a rv). It was rainy and windy but really great. The waves weren't all that impressive, but the foam from the waves on the other hand was crazy! I've never seen so much foam from the ocean!

Ryan on what we thought was a stable log.

Same log not looking to stable anymore. Four waves coming in at once.

And Ryan had to bail as the log started rolling. I did NOT like watching him jump in.

Crazy foam.

We had to pull a Prius out that was stuck. High tide was coming in and started pulling it out to sea.

This photo reminds me of Antarctica. Imagine the foam is ice, see?

Birds

Me!

Love.

The group the morning we left.

Camping at Denny Creek Sept. 25th-27th

We went camping at Denny Creek Campground with our friends the Lemmons on September 25th. Sort of a last hurrah before cold and dreary set in. We had the best spot in the whole place(the host even said so). Right on the river and nice and private.
We got there around 6:00 Friday evening, had dinner, surprised Ryan with a birthday cake and song (yay for Ryan's 25th birthday!!), sat around the fire and went to bed.
The next morning it was super chilly, I think it got down to 36° at th coldest. Brrr!
We ate some food and decided to hike around the river. It ended up being really cool following the river upstream. We had a little bit of an adventure climbing up the rocks to get back to the trail. After which we ended up at the trail head for Franklin Falls. It claimed to only be a mile long trail. We decided to check it out. I didn't even know it was there so that was kind of exciting. Well I'm pretty sure it was longer then a mile, but the falls were neat and the scenery along the way was fun. We saw a TON of different types of mushrooms. I've never seen so many and they were ALL along the stretch of trail. I have no idea what any of them are and haven't had any luck looking them up. So if you know by chance, please share.
It was a fun camping trip and I would go there again for sure. It was a nice campground.

Our campsite(best one)

Ryan in motion

Rinsing dishes

Lily the cutie pie.

Fall is here.

Happy Birthday to my Love!

yay!

Saturday morning up the river we go.

Ben and little Michael(he was a trooper).

Peaceful

Mini fall

Ryan. I wish I could have gotten in on this. The hardships of being the photographer....

Lemmons

Little berries

The first of the crazy mushrooms we encountered.

This was my fave.

Mario?

Ahhhhh! Evil nightmare mushroom wants to eat you!

Lonely guy

Crying fungus

My second fave. Coprinus comatus.

Loved the signs, they've been there a while.

Fall is falling...

Smiths at Franklin Falls.

Camping at Deception Pass April 17th-19th

Woo hoo! We went camping! It was really fun. Cool campground, the weather could have been warmer, but it didn't rain which was the most we could ask for. We went with our friends the Lemmons and the Adams and they were all good company. We would definitely go camping with them again.
I've taken forever to get pictures up. But here they are!

Lily at our campsite Saturday morning
Everyone getting ready to head to the beach

Piper and Peter

Lily on Ben's shoulders

Playing with rocks

Peter and Piper and the "samurai sword"(or kite)

Ryan!

Emily and Lily

Everyone up on the rock

The Lemmons

Me and the Kite

Ryan trying to fly the kite. It really wasn't windy enough. It made me sad.

As you can see, young and old Lemmons like to play with rocks.

Silly Ryan. He makes me happy.

Still trying to fly the kite

Our little camp friend

This is Lily showing us her smile. It's so cute.

Group picture!

She loved this juice box

But got bored eventually.

Our campfire

Ben and Lily

Awesome night shot of the fire lighting up the trees