The Murdock family went to Cape Meares, Oregon and stayed in a beach house. It was so fun to get everyone together. We played at the beach, flew kites, went crabbing, hiked to a lighthouse, and cooked smores. Jason loves his cousins, especially Reece. He now calls any little boy Reece, even pictures of himself. I love my family!

Benj's brother James rode the train into Portland and spent a couple of days with us here. We had fun at the Chinese Garden and playing video games (well at least the boys did).

The next week we drove to Waldport, Oregon for the Lloyd reunion. We had another wonderful time at the coast again. This time we were a little more prepared for the cold weather and water on the Oregon coast and brought wet suits. We had a lot of fun body surfing and looking out and seeing sea lions right on front of us. We also went crabbing again and actually caught some crabs that were big enough to keep. The Lloyd's had a Iron Chef pizza making contest for dinner one night and Benj's brother made a crab artichoke pizza that was actually really good! We also had a talent show at the reunion. We had people sing, stand up comedy from a nephew, dancing, and a puppet show from us. It was a lot of fun. I will have to add some pictures of the puppets we made later. I am pretty proud of our puppets :-). I love my in law family!

Later that same week we drove up to the Tri-Cities. James went through the temple on Friday morning. It is always wonderful to go through the temple with someone for the first time and with family. Saturday Benj's other brother Josh got married to Krista. It was a beautiful wedding and a fabulous dinner after. Krista looked beautiful and Josh looked very happy.