Hello hello!

Wow it's been awhile. I am finally feeling settled after moving. I actually have a bit of time to try and get some of our adventures posted on here! We are going to go way back to April! The boys, my mom, and I went to the tulip festival. Everyone had a great time, there is so much activities for kids there and beautiful tulips to enjoy so it's a win win for everyone!

Hay ride out to the tulip fields 

Fit just right!

Since the weather was so warm the tulips were already almost done, but it was still pretty!

Stop and smell the tulips!

Wooden shoe rides...lol

Florence Bound!

Awhile back I was reading the AAA magazine and it had an article on whale watching in Florence.

It got me all excited and wanting to plan a trip in our camper out there. Next thing I new I had it all planned out and couldn't wait to go. Then we got that wonderful opportunity to move into another home and things got super busy and crazy really fast. I wasn't sure if we would make it on this trip or not. We shortened it by a day but still headed out and had a good time. It was a nice break from all the house stuff.

First on our list was a giant dune buggy ride!

All buckled in and ready to go boys!

It was perfect weather for a nice ride on the Oregon dunes.

Found our camp spot.

What a mucky muddy mess. I didn't enjoy our campsite much but the boys sure loved running all around in the bushes and such.

Walking down the North Jetty

The boys and me!

All my boys minus Moe dog

King of hill

Phew, he made it up!

Loving the beach!

Neat wood forts made from drift wood everywhere.

More of the forts.

Jacob was collecting every shell he could find whether it was a broken tiny piece or not.

Jacob's boot prints

Emmett's boot prints

Sea Lion Cave! This was pretty cool! It was tricky with pictures since no flash is allowed, but I thought this actually turned out pretty good.

There was between 150 - 200 Sea Lions in there that day. It was pretty neat watching and listening to them. You could see them all over swimming in the ocean as well.

Far on that little cliff over there you can see the Heceta lighthouse.

Headed home and all tuckered out!

 It was short and sweet and of course Jacob did not want to go home. We had a good time and got to use the camper again!

Soaking up the February Sunshine!

I have decided to start up the blog that I was using with Jacob in China, but I have changed the name of it to "The Buehler Bunch" ..... do you get it?? This way it can include the whole family!
Since I am not really into the whole social media thing I felt like this is a good way for me to share our pictures and events with everyone since we don't get to see and talk to all of you often enough!

Oh my what a beautiful Valentines weekend we just had! Unbelievable weather for February! I was going stir crazy on Saturday just wanted to get out in the sun, but to do something fun not yard work or a short bike ride. After a few ideas we decided on taking the kids on a hike in the gorge called Wahclella Falls and visiting the Bonneville Dam and fish hatchery. What a fun day! The weather was perfect and Jacob was an awesome nature trekker. He loved every bit of it and did not complain about the length of the hike at all. The trail head says it is a 1 mile hike, but the website I found the hike on said it was 1.8 miles so I am not sure. It felt longer than 1 mile so I am going to go with 1.5 miles. It was a pretty good trail for kids, just a little cliffy so we had to make sure  Jacob stayed on the inside of the trail, which for the most part he did a good job!
Here are some of the pictures from out day trip....

                                                  Feeling how cold the water was.

     The first waterfall we came to. Scared Jacob every time we would try to stop and get a picture with him. That picture with Warren is a very scared wave and get me the heck off this fence! 

 

Wahclella Falls. It seemed a lot bigger than it 

appears in my pictures. It was hard to get pictures

 of it because the waterfall was spraying water all over

  my lens and Emmett was a little frightened of the waterfall.

                             This was a pretty big cave, it went back very far. Jacob wanted to
                             go as far back as he could, but we were a little worried about it.

                    
             

      Warren is showing Jacob the huge cliff that sits on top of the cave he 

was just in...a little scary.

                           We let Emmett down to stretch his legs out about the last 1/4 mile.
                            He did great, held my hand and was enjoying every bit of it!

 

                         After the hike we headed over to Bonneville Dam and the fish hatchery.
                         The boys had a good time running around and looking at everything.

                                  

                         Lastly was the fish hatchery. We saw the ginormous sturgeon Hermon.
                         We also saw lots of rainbow trout, some ducks, and some baby fish.
                          They had a little mock up of a fish ladder in the trout pond, Jacob really
                                      enjoyed watching the trout go up and down that.

All in all it was a great day! Rejuvenated our spirit after being stuck inside so much and being sick to often this winter. Jacob didn't want to go home as usual, but is highly looking forward to going back and looking forward to more hikes. Emmett is really coming along as he gets older, he has been a pretty decent traveler for the most part. We are all looking forward to nicer weather in the spring and having more adventures and outings!