Silver Falls State Park- 7 Years!!!

Two cute boys, I brought Alex in to wake up Morgan. Aren't they cute!

Happy Anniversary to Eric and I. Seven years and going strong. This year we decided to make the day special by going on a hike. We headed up to Silver Falls State Park. We went on a hike where we passed some 7 different waterfalls. We didn't have time to do the full hike or we would have passed more. Our good friends watch the older stinkers and we took the littlest stinker for a ride. Grandma will be happy to see some pictures of Alex, so here the smiling boy and our beautiful day!


As we were driving on our way to Silver Falls, we saw these beautiful colors up ahead. Fields of flowers. I love this place.

Look how bright red that is.

This one is my favorite!

I thought this looked like a fun place to slide down. You would need some extra padding on your butt to avoid chaffing :o)

This one was called double falls, if you look carefully you can see the upper falls. I would love to see this in the spring, when the water is running higher.

Look how beautiful this trail is. Nothing greater than a quiet day, hiking and enjoying nature with my husband.

As Eric said, "Jen, you have berry eyes." This is the only berry I found. I shared a bit with Eric, even though he was reluctant to try it. I loved picking these berries in Waterton!

Anyone know what this spit looking stuff is? I saw it all over. I also loved seeing this water droplet.

Alex was so happy to be out and about. He just looked around and watched the tree's. He really enjoyed going on the hike. Thanks Eric for being the man and carrying him.

What's for dinner, Alex? Nooo, he just looked really cute sitting in the crockpot!

Seattle Spectacular

We headed up to Seattle for the July 4th weekend. Eric's brother Oliver, his wife Kristin and their daughters Clara and Anna are living there for the summer. Oliver is interning with Amazon. They have a pretty sweet set up. I think I am most jealous of their free cleaning maid.
It was a fun weekend, especially at night when we played games, ate way too much food and laughed at how well we could B.S each other!

Here is where we stayed, up on the 14th floor. It was fun watching all the bitty people below, living their lives and being oblivious to the spectators above.

Saturday after a pancake breakfast at the stake building, we went to the zoo. Check out the monkeys we saw at the entrance. Who would let these silly creatures out of the zoo? Who is their keeper anyways?

Lovely Kristin with the kids. Yep they were probably driving her crazy.

There are those monkeys again.

Clara and Anna along for the ride. Clara and Tara really love to play together. It is hard to call their names, "Clara and Tara!"

You might think this is our first home, but really it is just a little hut at the zoo.

I don't know what to say about this picture. I think they were driving customers away from the zoo, due to the noise level. Or something like that. Love the tongue Oliver.

Cousins sitting on a hippo.

Who needs a stroller when you have Daddy/Uncle Eric?

Tara and Clara visiting our relatives. Love the shades Clara!

A nice picture of Oliver.

Two Zoo Goers

Morgan checking out the Penguins.

Tara wishing she could be in there swimming around with the penguins.

Handsome Brothers

A not so clear of a picture of Oliver workin the Wii Fit. Tara workin the pink stool. They used the stool and pretended to do what we were doing.

Yeah for 4th of July! Yeah for yummy food! Yeah for great company! Many thanks to Oliver and Kristin for putting up with our crazy family!

Yummy, Kristin made us Blueberry/Strawberry Shortcake, Oliver put the finishing touch of whipping cream on top, just like his Brother and his Dad! Oh and he kept feeding the whipping cream to the kids. We love you Oliver!

Hula Hooping Tara. She was pretty darn cute!

Bear hugs down by the Bay

Isn't it beautiful. I wish I had a boat and could go out there and watch the sun set.

Look at our lovely tour guide. Here we are on the top floor of Oliver's building. It was like we were in a helicopter looking over Seattle. It's nice to have a good hook up, who can get us into places like this. I was thinking how sorry I am for all the people who pay to get into the space needle, when they could come here, but too bad, you have to know someone like Oliver for that privilege.

Tara feeding the seagulls. Can you see the bird in the top left of the picture? Yeah the next time she did it, down came a sea gull from behind me. It took out my head on the way there. Ouch, watch out for killer sea gulls.