Leavenworth Camping Trip Part 1

Our annual camping trip with friends and family this year was our longest yet - we stayed for ten days and even that didn't seem long enough. We started our trip with this super long list of things we wanted to see, do, try, explore, find and enjoy... we hit only a few of those items making time to just enjoy camp as well. We came to the realization that the particular camp site we stayed at wasn't just a camp site but rather a base for the area we really wanted to enjoy.

We stayed at Tumwater Campground just outside of Leavenworth. This was a great campground that we would enjoy again. The campground is huge offering sites both for a quick night over and enjoyment on the river. We did luck out and enjoy the river all week while camping, which was really nice as the weather was hot... some days reaching close to one-hundred. Being in the mountains and near water helped to keep the warmth reasonable.

While camping we enjoyed many outings on hikes and to town. One walk was to an alpine lake called Hidden Lake, just above Lake Wenatchee. The walk was just under a mile, perfect for kids. The lake was beautiful!!! We hiked up and enjoy some refreshing water play.

Silver Springs Camping

This past weekend we enjoyed our annual trip with friends to Silver Springs camp ground - a fun way to kind of kick off the camping season! The weather was some what cooperative, a few showers on Saturday but not too horrible. The kids all seemed to care less and kept on playing.

All of our camping friends are dutch oven masters now too -- making for some fine feasts when together! The food cannot be beat - in fact our dinners are so amazing that we eat a light lunch and few snacks... gotta keep the bellies ready for good food! Bryan also enjoys a certain breakfast dish that he cooked up each morning, makes way more than our family  can eat but luckily there are others to help enjoy it.

Once again a wonderful weekend!

Sesame Street Live

This was our third year enjoying Sesame Street Live and Hudson's first year! The kids both loved it... well, even I loved it. I enjoyed Sesame Street so much as a child, I have such fond memories of it - it is fun to enjoy this live performance with them. This was Hudson's first live show and I am impressed with how well he did, which is good because I am taking him to another one in Seattle in a couple of weeks.

The kids loved this and we look forward to enjoying it again next year!

Master Gardener Program

This past week our Camp Fire troop enjoyed a wonderful field trip to our local Master Gardeners outreach program. The grounds are just wonderfully done - demonstrating many varied styles of gardening from flowers to food, composting, irrigation and more! It is very hands on for the kids and truly designed with children in mind - so they can explore, touch, learn and grow in their skills and knowledge!!! On this field trip our kiddos finished up by making a little greenhouse from a bottle and planted seeds. A fun project to take home and watch grow.

Happy Birthday!!!

Holly turned seven years old this week... seven!!! My how the time has flown! She had a wonderful birthday celebration this past weekend at a local park. Holly wanted a Nature Party - so nature we did... park, forest play, stream play, sunshine -- really you couldn't beat how the day went the kids all had a great time! They played for several hours!