{Cranberry Festival}

We met some of my family for the weekend in Grayland, WA for the Cranberry Festival. I can't believe how much we did in the short time we were there. I forget how much I love the Coast, and how different it is from the Puget Sound, it is an actual beach with soft sand!! Get ready for a TON of pictures, there was a lot to photograph.

{the beach}

When we arrived Friday afternoon we hurried to the first beach access road and let the girls out to play. The weather was incredibly warm and sunshiny! Grace and Addison loved the soft sand and Addison was rolling around in it! Not long after we were there we spotted some horses on the beach, oh how Grace would have loved that! (and her mother).

{the festival}

The next morning we headed to the cranberry festival. The girls tasted the craisins and the cranberry relish, yum! We also saw the largest CORN DOG I have ever seen and some fantastic pine cones with googly eyes :) Then we signed up for our bog tours and off we went to play on the beach some more!

{the lighthouse}

{sand dollar heaven}

We decided the check out the beach by the lighthouse and discovered that it was the place to find sand dollars. there were so many of them, it was ridiculous. I think I came home with probably a hundred!!

{the bog tour}

We took our little tour of the cranberry bogs and stopped at one of the farm to learn more about harvesting them. Although I had hoped for seeing them flood the bogs (maybe we can find those next year), it was still very interesting. 95% of these farmers sell to Ocean Spray, which is a Co-op, so support your farmers and buy Ocean Spray!

No, this is not one of the kids, this is my sister who fell through a board and into the bog! She has fantastic timing too, the farmer had seriously just finished telling us that the very large elk cause problems and sometimes break his board walkways around the bogs...... Que Jenny, who then falls right through the board with a loud thump. Thanks Jen, one of my highlights!

{back to sand dollar heaven}

after the bog tour we headed back to the beach to collect more sand dollars!!

this is what you wear when you leave the beach because you pottied in your pants. I can't blame the little girl. I'm sure she didn't realize she had to go until she got onto the beach and heard the crashing of the waves and just couldn't hold it!!!

We lost Harry for a minute......... (Aunt Stephanie searching)

Here's the gang. I love Addie's face and Harry and his sand dollar.

There were actually a lot of surfers out!

{the bog jog}

Sunday morning my sister ran in the 10K bog jog............. and WON!!!!!! She beat a bunch of boys from the coast guard, way to go Sarah.

Here she is just making her way into second place.....

and then we waited at the finish line...... there she came all by herself!!! She wasted everyone.

Here she is collecting her "gold medal"!!!! Sarah wasn't the only winner that day, Harry won this great sweatshirt! Look at his proud mother!!

Thanks everyone for a great weekend!