So, as I blog about personal stuff, I run up against the problem of showing images and talking about other people. It seems like there may be some folks who may object to having their pix shown online without permission and, of course, that's okay, but who has time to ask for every little posting? So, it's often expeditious to leave those pix off and try not to say anything too offensive about people.
Hence the many pix, above, of innocuous refrigerator magnets -- who can object to those?
They were a little art project that the boys' uncle cooked up that ended up being a lot of fun for all of us.
We all stayed in a rented house at Lincoln City, called Sophie's Place. It was lovely, with a beautiful gourmet kitchen and was only a short walk to the beach, which I very much appreciated (last year's family reunion house required a short drive to the beach, which complicates matters).
We ate a lot of food: lasagna (from Cooking Illustrated -- always a hit), pasta carbonara (with bacon from Gartner's, a real butcher in Portland -- to die for!), Grandma's special tacos, cinnamon bread, muffins, pasta salad, potato salad, sandwich bar, bagels, pecan pie, banana cream pie, strawberry shortcake and a whole lot of other things that weren't on my diet.
I gained three pounds over the weekend. But it was very delicious, nonetheless.
The boys introduced their innocent young cousin to the joys of gunplay and his parents very gamely purchased plastic doubleshooter rifles for all three children, who turned two armchairs into forts and bunkered down for the duration of the trip.
Great fun was had by all. We'll definitely do something like this again (though we're still looking for the perfect beach house that doesn't require a ton of driving from the airport (as some of us must fly to Portland, just for the first leg of their journey), is close to the beach and has enough beds and bathrooms to accomodate seven adults and three kids comfortably.
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