Birthday Getaway

Joshua planned a trip to the east side of Washington for my birthday. We headed out Friday morning and landed at a campsite early so we could all just hang out. The weather was comfortable and lovely so we played with dirt, picked flowers, made tacos, and played guitar. Since Roslyn walks now it was much more fun to let her explore on her own. We love that she is bold enough to just wander off into a tall patch of grass to pick a flower or to help pick up sticks and throw them into the fire pit.

Early the next morning we went on a 6 mile hike. We got lovely little mountain peek a boos through the hills as we climbed and the whole hike was drenched in wildflowers. There were a few types of yellow ones, some purple ones, and red/orange indian paint brushes.

I love going on a hike when these yellow flowers are in bloom, it's hard not to stop and stare every time we'd turn a corner and find a new hillside bursting with them. We had lunch at the top and headed back down.

Next up was a winery Joshua took us to. The sun was out, there was live music, chickens, a playground, cold rose wine and a sandy beach. We grabbed Roslyn's sand pail and headed straight to the beach. When we plopped her into the wet soft sand she was transfixed, rubbing her toes in the sand and then grabbed handful of it and watched it ooze out of her fingers. So we drank wine and made sand castles all afternoon while live music wafted down to us. It was really a special moment. Then we dunked most of her body in the little lake and headed into the national forest to find a campsite.

It absolutely poured that night so we decided to call it a day early and drive home. It was my birthday that day so we got my favorite burgers and milkshakes when we got home and put our worn out sunkissed baby to bed early.

Just behind the rainbow blanket is the bed Roslyn

slept in all on her own both nights!

Roslyn photobombing my picture of the

 new leather caddy I made for Walter

Outside Baby

It has been beautiful here lately so we've been spending a lot of time outside. We drove Walter until we found sunshine, water, and a spot to park. We had a picnic, threw rocks and just hung out near the water.

Roslyn has been helping me garden, more like pulling up the plants I just planted but still.

A few cute photos of her with bubbles.

Campsgiving 2018

This year around Thanksgiving we had just moved into our new place and had yet to even get a chance to grab a bite to eat in our new neighborhood and have a fire. So, we opted to spend Thanksgiving day with some friend's and their family, then the next day having dinner and a lovely fire in our place and heading out to camp for just one night. We didn't have much time to plan it this year and we felt like going out for any longer would just be us doing it for the sake of doing it. I'm really glad we chose to do what was actually best for us and not push it. The day and a half we did go out for Campsgiving was lovely, not stressful, and was able to be fully enjoyed.

We went on a short 3 mile hike at Rockport State Park where we found mushrooms abound, watched the mist slowly change the landscape and played with face sized leaves. Then we headed to another park where we hung out and slowly made our Campsgiving dinner of turkey with gravy, fire roasted garlic mashed potatoes, brussels sprouts with leek, and our favorite the sausage and mushroom stuffing. Roslyn was partial to the mashed potatoes.

Then the next morning we drove down a forest road in hopes of finding a Christmas tree to chop down, sadly this road never really opened up to have any fields of trees under 20' but we were there and determined so we found one small wonky tree and nabbed it. It is the goofiest tree we've ever cut down but he's ours.

campsgiving 2017

campsgiving 2016

campsgiving 2015

campsgiving 2014

campsgiving 2013

Walter and Roslyn meet

Our van baby and human baby had a sleepover this past weekend. We need to put miles on Walter to break in his new engine and we thought a test run with Roslyn before the big trip might be a good idea too. We headed east to Mazama and camped for the night. Walter ran great, sounded great. Roslyn took it all like a champ. 

She was in her carseat for about 3 hours and slept the whole way out there. The next day we drove a bit more to do a little 4 mile hike among some spring flowers. Joshua strapped her to his chest and she dozed off. She slept the whole hike except for when we made the rookie mistake of taking her out to get her photo. Unhappy she was no longer snuggly she proceeded to scream until we put her back in. We won't make that mistake again.

On the drive back she slept most of the way, or starred outside. She only protested to the car seat once and it turned out she was just hungry. Overall our little test trip was pretty darn perfect, fingers crossed the whole long roadtrip goes exactly like this :) Just kidding, we're not that naive, promise.