February 15, 2010

The Edmiston-Hutchinson family is back!!  We love this house and it’s perfect for our large extended family.  Thanks for sharing your home.

We had a great time with cousin and family.  We made a fire on the beach.

Ron & Cathie,

Vancouver, WA

February 09, 2010

Super Bowl Weekend!  We had a great time at The Admiral!  Thanks for sharing your beach home with us.  We loved the fireplace!

Mark & Beckie

Vancouver, WA

December 07, 2009

A great weekend with our entire family- beautiful weather!  I borrowed a book by Neale Walsch-its already packed away-but I think the name is a relationship with God.  I’m anxious to finish it & will gladly return it!  Thank you for the use of your home.

Kelsey,

Elma, WA

November 27, 2009

We are a group of families, originally from the East Coast and Mid west but now call Portland our home.  We are all far from our true families so when holidays come along we create a new family of friends.  Our children are growing up together and know their, “Aunts & Uncles” here better than many of their blood relatives.  This trip was special for several reasons-it was Thanksgiving, our last getaway with one couple that has decided to move back East and my baby boy’s one year birthday.  We searched long and hard for a place that could accommodate us all without being too cozy & that would keep everyone entertained even if the weather was bad. Your home provided the perfect venue for our celebrations.  The kids were thrilled with the bunk bed room, the movie collection & the wonderful treasure chest.  The adults, who are very young at heart, took full advantage of the game tables and T. V.’s.  We cooked a  Thanksgiving feast between all the kitchens and could all eat and share our appreciations together thanks to the extra table.  Our meal together became an even more special occasion when we learned there will be one more addition to our makeshift family next year!  I haven’t even mentioned the wonderful path to the wide open welcoming beach where we even got treated to several hours of sunshine to add to our great time.

The Admiral really proved to be a perfect place for this group.  Thank you for all you’ve put into the house-it was very much appreciated by this crew.

Happy Thanksgiving 2009!

The Brucatos & friends

Portland, WA

November 13, 2009

Mom’s Gone Wild party for my 40th --- Oh, Big fun was had by all.  Thanks for the great fun, beautiful new fantastic deck and great dance floor.  Woohoo! 

Laurie and the MGW Possie

Seattle, WA

October 25, 2009

79 years ago, I was born in Long Beach on Sandridge Road.  At age 3 we moved to Cathlamet to larger farm in the Elochaman Valley.  Was married Jan. 1949 can’t believe its been 60 years!  How grateful I’ve been!  We had twin daughters and three years later another daughter.  We have 6 grandsons + 15 great grandchildren.  What blessings they have been.  We live in Kelso + my husband Orville worked at Weyerhauser for 34 years before retiring in 1989.  Five of our great grandchildren are here with us + having a great time, Calbil-Kelso senior, Micayla 8th Cowieman, Trevor 7th Castle Rock,  Morgan-6years, 1st grade,  Butler Acres + Paige 4th grade Pre-School.  There favorite thing was playing “Hide & Seek”.  They played this for hours.  So many places to hide!  They rode horses on the beach + Morgan won a free ride at another time.  She was thrilled.  You have a lovely home + thank you for sharing it with us.  We would love to come back.

Sincerely- Ruth Tomasli, Orville Tomasli, Marsha Tomasli, Micayla Tomasli, Colbie Tomasli, Morgan, Shri Tomasli, & Trevor Brown.

Kelso, Wa

October 05, 2009,

This was a great house for our family celebrating a 80th birthday!  We came from many places including Oregon, California, Idaho, Georgia, Colorado.  Our age range is 16 years to 80.  Lots of fun in this beautiful house and with every thing we could possibly need.  The game rooms were well used by all.  Our bedrooms were furnished with lovely furnishings and so comfortable!  The weather has been perfect.  Warm and sunny every day.

I asked everyone for suggestion for improvements : (consider this with “tongue in cheek”)  1) Intern system 2) Escalator 3) Chart at top of steps to record number of steps per day for each person.  We have stayed at many beach homes over the years and this has been the best yet!  I hope we can come again-As a group we Thank You so much for sharing your beautiful house with us.  Thanks to the cleaning crew.  They do a terrific job!!

The Musgrove  Family, The McBride Family, The Longston Family, The Bare Family, The Bruce Family, The Kibbler Family.

North Plains, OR

September 17, 2009

This was the 3rd house the Clark Family has stayed in it was beautiful and enough room for all 12 of us,  all 3 generations.  We all had a blast and will be back!!

The Clark Family

-Sam, Donna, Kezia, Lucretia, Brandon, Annalice, Jaden, Josie, Kayden,

Ida-Granger, WA

August 25, 2009

This is our second time to Long Beach, and our first time at The Admiral.  We have been trying to have family vacations together, and this was one of the nicest.  Last year we went to Copalis, and decided that was too long a trip.  We are 3 families from Beaverton, Tigard, Oregon.  We range in age from 5 to 68 years.  The kids and the adults enjoyed air-hockey, pool table, and xbox.  We saw many things and took some great pictures.  The 3 separate living areas are great for 3 families.  We have always gone to our Oregon beaches, but as my youngest grandson said, “We need to come back again next year”!  Thank You so much for sharing your home!!

The Rosentreters, the Tyes, and the McConnells,

Beaverton, OR

August 24, 2009

Hi from the Gregory Durbin family:  Greg& Denise (grandma&grandpa), Chris& Annie (mom & dad ), Jack & Jane ( our grand kids-their kids) and Jen & Bill Finnerty.  We hale from University Place, Fircrest, & Kent, WA  respectively.

Greg and I have been married for 35 years and have 2 grown children-Christopher and Jennifer.  Greg works for a pharmaceutical Comp. in Seattle a regional (Western US)  IT Manager.  I Denise work for the Workfirst division of WA State Employment Security office in Lakewood.  I plan on working 10 more years(!) “God Willing”.  I was a discussion leader in Bible study Fellowship,  I love the Lord!,  and I am ever so thankful for my great husband, wonderful (and beautiful) children and grand children.  We are truly blessed.

Our son, Chris, is a lawyer and his wife, Annie, is a wonderful stay –at-home mom-she was teacher for Special Ed.-elementary& middle school.  Our daughter Jen works for World Vision and is a project manager (financial auditing) Her husband , Bill, is doing internships for U.W.  Med. School and will soon be a Nurse Practitioner.

Jack is almost 6 and will attend all day kindergarten this fall.  He is smart, handsome and a good young athelete!  Jane-Jane is almost 3 years old-and the sweetest on 2 little feet in the whole world!!

We loved this place!  Chris, Annie, J& J on the 1st floor.  Nice and cool-they loved-(we all did)-your pool table, ping pong and air-hockey.  This is such a beautiful house- we guess the did it all- great work!  The kitchens on every floor are great and the view-Spectacular!  Jen and Bill took the 2nd floor-they loved (we all did) the fire pit-the large screen TV and being able to bring their German Sheperd, “Addie” along, Addie loved to dig ( to China ) in the sand.  Beautiful decorating and furnishings!  We enjoyed the Kite Festival and the Light house-the weather is perfect- under 70 and sunny.

We marveled at your family picture in the dining area-your wife looks so young!  Thank you for sharing your space.  God bless and keep yours.

D. Durbin

University Place, WA

August 17, 2009

We were here for a week last August for a destination wedding.  This beach house allowed for an “impromptu” family reunion for my husband’s side of the family!  We had such a great time and the house was big enough that everyone had “their space” we decided to repeat the trip this year!  We were thrilled to find toys (especially the dress up clothes) , Disney video’s, anew stove, the new tv’s & pool table!  We had 4 little girls (age 6,5,& two 3 year olds) that had so much fun they didn’t want to leave!  We left some beach mats to add to the house.  Thank you for out fitting such an incredible home for us to make unforgettable family memories! 

Brandon& Yvonne, Dylan ( age 5)  Drew (age 3) from Vail, Colorado

Trevor& Kristi,  Jaiden (age 6) mia (age 3)  from Bothell, Washington

Art & Carol, from Woodinville, Washington

Marguerite from Denver, Colorado

August 13, 2009

The Anderson, Jenkins, Furguson family stayed here to celebrate my oldest son’s marriage in Naselle, WA.  Staying here allowed the family to be together and relax following the hectic & stressful bustle of wedding activities. The very young children to the adult children all found activities to entertain them.  We greatly enjoyed the experience and are planning on future family vacations here.  It w as a true pleasure .  Thank you for renting & maintaining such a wonderful home.  Your rates are great and allow for affordability for the average family.

Jamie,

Lake Stevens, WA

August  07, 2009

We’ve chosen this rental home to bring our whole family together and to celebrate this unusual chance together.  We live far apart-Minnesota, Wisconsin, California, and Washington.  Our ages range from 2 -72.  Everyone had something fun and wonderful to explore and do here.  Thank you for providing so many indoor activities for children, their parents, our “teens” and older folks.  It is our 50th anniversary (Minnesota  grandparents ) on August 8th.  And our Washington family (parents) of the youngest children our daughter and her husband’s 11th anniversary August 8th as well.  We have a challenge to find a place large enough (plus allowing a small dog to stay!)  Thanks very much for sharing your lovely beach house.

Sincerely,

Les and Elizabeth

August 03, 2009

Trimble family reunion – great facility for a large family gathering for a wide variety of ages.  Thank you for making it a wonderful environment for all.

Trimble’s from Longview, Seattle, Snohomish , Tacoma and Tueson, Arizona.

July 27, 2009

We chose this vacation rental house to celebrate our parent’s 50th wedding anniversary.  And it was great!!  We range in age from 73 to 7 and you had something everyone!  We loved the pool table, air hockey, ping pong, x-box, dress up, books, video’s, and the fire pit.  We spent hours at the beach and enjoyed smores at the fire pit.  The view is nice and the amount of room in the house was super.   We didn’t feel like we had 11 people here!  Having the stairs on the “outside” of the floors was nice because people could go from one floor to the next without bothering anyone.   You decorated everything nice and comfortable.   Thank you so much for sharing your house and a part of yourselves!  And the most important thing was the Steffani’s form Ashland, OR.  (the 50th year newlyweds!)

The Lefflers from Newberg, OR.

The Steffani- Williams from Chico, CA.

July 13, 2009

This trip was a reunion for college friends and our families.  We made smores at the fire pit and the kids all loved the toys and dress-up clothes.  We made several treks to the beach and even saw a seal.  We enjoyed our time at your house.  Thanks!

The Lincicums from Wisconsin

The Anderson Stark Family from Colorado

The Johnson Dickerson Family from Seattle

The Ruskins form Arizona

July 04, 2009

The Coles invited us to spend the holiday weekend with them at this awesome beach house.  What a great time.  We made new friends and had a blast with Mike & Jeanette.  Hopefully we’ll be invited back soon.  J Hint! Hint!

Thanks so much.

Dillinger

Kelso, WA

May 29, 2009

I loved this trip.  Me and Dessa took a lot of cute pictures and enjoyed the ocean and the house a ton.  Thank sooo much for inviting me, I had a blast.  The food was delish.  The pancakes were sooo good, as well as the eggs and bacon (mmmm).  The clam chowder bread bowl was really good.  Thanks for everything.   I had a ton of fun!!

Thanks a lot,

Olga

Kelso, WA

May 04, 2009

The house was perfect for our family getaway.  It had everything to keep the kids happy and the adults.  Loved the space and view.  We’d love to come back! 

The Princes, Hobbs, Kings, Callaghans, Lamberts, &Ochs

Washougal, WA

April 23, 2009

My boyfriend’s family organized a weekend at the beach for the Astoria Seafood Festival.  It was a great weekend and your house has everything we could of wanted!  Thanks for letting others enjoy your place.  It is perfect!  Thanks!

Jessie and Mike

Oregon City, Oregon

Beautiful, fantastic and so much fun-your home was perfect for our family gathering, with so many fun activities a person doesn’t want to leave.  Your home is well stocked with plenty of games on all levels for all ages- We would love to come back again next year!  We loved how the house was clean!!!

See you next year,

Renee  &  Doug

Boise, Idaho

April 19th, 2009

WOW___ What a  wonderful  5 days and what a beautiful house.  We had 14 crazy women here.  I am sure the Admiral House will never be the same.  The weather was awesome.   The beach with tons of sand dollars the pool table’s great for a lot of BIG TALK!  I hope we will be back to share more memories here! 

Frieda’s friend,

Tacoma, WA

April 12, 2009

We had an excellent time enjoying this house all 12 of us, playing on the beach in the sun and celebrating our Mother’s 70th birthday.  Thanks for having a great house!

The Coulon’s

Renton, WA

April 05, 2009

Day # 1:  Our first night here and what can we say, “WOW”.  This place is wonderful!  We enjoyed our first night just kicking back playing pool, ping pong, air hockey etc…

Day #2:  We woke up this morning to a awesome breakfast prepared by our personal chief “Troy”!  Then we went to town and enjoyed 70 degree weather!  Came back to fly kites on the beach!  Went to Oysterville and purchased oysters & clams.  Came back and had an amazing dinner that consisted of New York steaks, caesar salad, oysters, clams, sourdough bread and a really good bottle of white wine!  After dinner we had a fire on the beach made smores and finished with a game of Texas Holdem!  This truly was an amazing day!

Day # 3:  With 6 teenagers we had to go race go-karts.  So we headed to town.  We must have raced half the day.  We had a blast!!  Thanks again for a wonderful stay here at the Admiral House its totally awesome.

Cheryl

Sedro Woolley, WA

April 01, 2009

We enjoyed our family vacation very much.  The Admiral House is a great place to gather, to play, to rest and to enjoy the ocean.  Four generations in one home is a memory that will stay with us forever.  Thank you.

The Moore Family

Snohomish, WA

March 26, 2009

This was an awesome weekend.  What I liked was the rooms and the house itself.  Thank you for letting me stay at this house!!  Sincerely, Kyla

I liked my room and I liked your house and I liked your pictures.  We rode bikes.  We had a good time.  We loved the beach.  Love, Shae

Thank you for letting us enjoy  your home.  We enjoyed the puzzles, games toys, etc… We hope to come back again.  Thanks, Lourena

Thank you for letting us enjoy  your home.  We enjoyed the games, play room, toys etc…  My favorite part was when we rode our bikes.  We had a great time at the beach house.  We hope to come back again.  The house was great!!!   Sincerely, Paige

Thanks so much for all the fun memories.  I loved the spacious rooms.  I also loved going to the beach.  Thanks again for letting us stay.  P. S. Your house is beautiful!  Sincerely, Brinna

Thanks for sharing your home with us.  We had a great time.  View was beautiful.  Stairs were a killer.  Thanks again, Katie

Sherwood, OR

March 22, 2009

Mom, Thanks for letting me have my birthday party here for my 16th.  It was a blast!  I loved all the food you made, and (bought).  Thank you for paying for all of my friends to ride the go-carts and for ice cream.  Going to the beach was a lot of fun,  we took tons of pictures, of all different sorts of poses, that were very hard.  This is the best weekend I’ve ever had at the beach.  Because it wasn’t filled with work and I could just have fun!  I’ll never forget this party.

Love, Dessa

I had a totally awesome time at Dessa’s 16th birthday!!  I m so glad I want I had lots of fun at the beach and oh the go-carts even though I still have oil over my sweatshirt.  I can’t wait to come again!

Nicole

The house was great!  It is huge, I want to live here.  The food was good.  I loved the beds they were really comfortable.  It is a very beautiful house.  I want to stay longer cause it was a ton of fun.  The go-carts were so much fun it was my first time.

Olga

P.S.  Thank you Jeanette for the good food and thank you Dessa for inviting me to your 16th birthday.

Wow, this trip to the beach was totally awesome!  It was so much fun to celebrate Dessa’s birthday here!  I loved riding the go-carts and eating ice cream in town!  The best thing though was going down to the beach and doing all those poses and taking pictures!  Thanks Jeanette so much for the food and everything else you did!

Jessica

This has been one of the funniest weekends I’ve had in a long time!!  Thank you Dessa for inviting me to your 16th birthday party and thank you Jeanette for all the great food and house!  I would definitely have to recommend this house to people!  It’s beautiful, lots of space, and FUN!  Thank you all!  It was awesome!  I loved it! J  Liliya

We all had a wonderful time celebrating my daughter, Dessa’s 16th birthday.  Six of her friends joined us to have a great girl’s weekend.  I actually got to enjoy my house as a guest and cooked.  When we work on the house I like to eat out J.  I left my crock pot I brought from home.  I made some yummy split pea soup.  We’re on our way back to Kelso now.  I hope our next guests have an enjoyable visit.

Jeanette, owner

February 16, 2009

Thank you so much for your incredible house.  Our family had a fantastic time & everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves.  We are Ron, Cathie and three sons- Brandon, Trevor, and Colt and their wives/girlfriends and our three grandchildren:  Talon-12, Brett-6, and Sarah-4.  Your house is perfect for our large family—from the double dining tables to the bunk beds for the little ones & all the great rec. room toys.  The top floor is a great place to gather while making dinner—or a quiet place to read & watch the ocean.  Your second floor is a fun place to play pool and or Xbox on the big screen T. V. and we all loved the bottom floor and had fun and tournaments playing air hockey and ping pong.  To make our weekend even more perfect  we had great weather.  We loved playing on the beach flying  kites and having a bonfire on the beach and roasting marshmallows.  It is a time we will all cherish and remember.  The wonderful memories we made.   Thanks for sharing your home.

Ron & Cathie

Vancouver, Wa

December 14, 2008

Friday night we went clamming in 60 mile and hour winds and we did great!  It was awesome!  Today we awoke to snow on the beach!  How often do you see that?  Tonight, we’ll be clamming again in the snow!  The house is great-huge!  And having 2 kitchens is awesome.  We have the whole family here—Thank you!

The Dales, McNealiy’s, Yost’s and Ellingsons

November 2008

We have been so blessed!!  The weather is beautiful you would think it was spring or summer.  The temp. is 60-65 degrees .  We all walked back from the beach this morning with sweatshirts tied around our waists.  This home is so Big!!  It was fun getting to know our way around  the place.  My mom,dad,our girls and my niece and her 2 children have made special memories at your home.  We even had Gramma playing air hockey and she is 77 years old, and she did great!!  Thank you for sharing your fun and relaxing home with us.

The Jacksons

 November 15, 2008

Hello!  Your beach house is gorgeous!  I came all the way from Buffalo,NY to stay here with my family.  My two year old son walked to the beach with me and his papa for the first time.  He ran towards the water totally fearless….he went to far, the waves caused him to tumble over….soaked and cold,  we had to walk back re-dressed him.  We headed back to the beach, the fearless attitude is now gone….so we settled for sand.  Still fun!   Blessings! 

Whitaker’s

October 23, 2008

 We had such a great time in your home.  Everything is perfect for our family and friends.  We used every level.  We love the Ping pong & Air Hockey---what fun and the expansive atmosphere throughout the home is so tastefully done.  I’ve never stayed in a home where everyone had their own “level”.  It was great.  Thank you very much.

Jays Electric Team

September 28, 2008

 We have had a great time.  Thank you for arranging for such wonderful weather!

 Your place is beautiful and very “homey” & warm.

 When we made our reservation, we had hoped for a great family time---our hopes have been met exceded.  We all loved our time at the Admiral House….young and old, welcomed fun, fellowship, and relaxation.  Thank you for opening your lavish place to our family.  We are grateful and we’ll return in the not to distant future.  We will also be walking advertisements!

With a heartfelt thanks,

Karen

August 17, 2008

 We have had a lovely holiday.  The proximity to the beach was the winner!

Jake and  Misa