Beach babes of the Pacific NW

Warning: This will be part one of what will probably be a three part series about our trip to the Olympic Peninsula this weekend. Our goal was to endulge my fangirlness (new word!) and visit the Twilight hotspots around Forks and Port Angeles, but it became so much more.

My children were all born in Seattle and are 100% children of the Pacific Northwest. Isabelle crumbles if she's in temperatures above 75 degrees. Sophia shields her eyes and screams on days the sun is shining full blast. And Hudson sunburns in two seconds if left unattended without sunscreen. They are in their element when its cloudy, raining, and cold. This point couldn't have been proven more true than our trip to the beach this weekend.

As part of our Twilight tour, we went out to La Push and visited First Beach. The temperature outside? A "balmy" 63 degrees. Conditions? Cloudy with occassional sprinkles and a breeze. Water temperature? About a chill 50 degrees. My children? In their bathing suits running into the suf.

I probably don't need to point out that the rest of the spactators on the beach were wearing jeans, sweatshirts (jackets in some cases) and fingers twitching towards their cellphones, no doubt aching to call Child Protective Services on us. Hey, this is how my kids like it...ocean to themselves!

We're at the beach? Everyone jump for joy!

In Isabelle's case, not even being without a bathing suit can keep her out of the water

This is the face we get when we say it's time to leave.

They're like sharks on the shore, watching and waiting for the perfect wave to play in

They run in the water, run from the water...just let my kids lose at a beach and they will be entertained for hours. The colder the better!!