A New Family Tradition

the view from our yurt

our yurt

the Wallowa Mtns

Wallowa Lake

hiking tuckered her out

a good angle for me! 7 mos pregnant

she hiked herself before this and wore herself out

Lostine River

Elk!

This year was our first year yurting at Wallowa Lake instead of the coast. We really had a good time. To start with, the yurt was extra nice, a newer one, so the accomodations were great. We did a fair amount of hiking in the Wallowas and the scenery is so beautiful! I was impressed that even our two oldest ones hiked quite a few miles without complaining. They were loving the great outdoors. Even the little Goobie wanted to hike and she did for awhile until we scooped her up in the backpack because she was slowing us down. We managed to fit both of our oldest kids' bikes into our minivan along with our other camping stuff and they had fun riding around the campground. I think that is one of the biggest changes I have noticed. Camping is becoming a little bit more fun for me now that our kids aren't all babies. The two oldest could branch out a little bit and entertain themselves and so bringing the bikes was a huge hit. We also brought Sweet Boy's remote controlled monster truck and he played with that all around the campground. Sweet Boy and Grace both caught their first fish - a rainbow trout. We cooked it up and it was yummy! Mommy made some dutch oven meals - potatoes with chilli and cheese and then we tried to make brownies.....they were good but a little gooey. I think we'll have to make this family vacation one of our new traditions.