We’ve been so busy lately!  I haven’t even found the time to blog about all that we’ve been doing.  Here are some of the highlights from the last couple of weeks.

For Phil’s birthday weekend, we headed down to Mount Rainier since we hadn’t been there since we came to visit Washington in October of 2006.  Phil has really been wanting to go back, but pregnancy and new baby made it difficult.  However, Noah is now much more interested in what is going on around him, so we packed up and made a weekend of it.  First, we stayed overnight and his aunt and uncles home in Graham and had a nice birthday dinner with them.

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Then, we made an early-ish morning to make it to Mt. Rainier.  Phil’s mom came too, so it was a lot of fun.  The snow was pretty far down, so we even got to do a little sledding.  Yes, we used black trash bags… they’re perfect!  You can stuff them into your pockets when you are done!

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Noah had a great time as well. He really enjoyed playing in the snow and thought it was great to be be carried around on mommy and daddy’s back.

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It was also really fun to see the differences in the mountain in the summertime versus the autumn from last trip. This is the same hill in July 2008 and October 2006:

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Now, we’ll just have to go back in the winter and spring to complete our picture of the mountain.  Someday, we also would like to make it to the top, but I believe we’ll have many more years before that will be possible for our family!