Camano Island Adventure

Sunday Matt and I decided to check out a new park around us.  We went to Camano Island State Park.  This park was about 45 minutes south of us and we liked the drive.  Sunday was cloudy and kinda chilly, but we made the best out of it and we had fun out on the beach with Callie! 

The drive there you could see the Cascades and Mt. Baker and when you got to the park you could see the Olympics and in the far distance you could get a glimpse of Mt. Rainier!  I could imagine how beautiful it would be on a clear sunny day!  It was nice even with it being as overcast as it was. 

A few weeks ago we went to my friend Sarah's farewell party and Matt saw that they had some hand carved wooden spoons made from burl wood.  Matt really liked that and decided that he would like to try that some time.  Well, when we went out we saw tons of really awesome pieces of wood, so Matt found one that he is going to try to carve a serving spoon out for me! 

As were exploring around the State Park we found the craziest gate ever!  It was part spaceship/dragon/solar system!!! Haha!  We had to turn around to take a few pictures of it!

This late spring or summer I want to have a BBQ here and spend a day playing at the beach, anyone else interested??  I felt artsy when we went on this adventure, so I took quite a few pictures, but here are my favorites!

Matt Squared

Over the weekend Matt went hiking with Matt Oram.  They decided to go climb Mt. Saint Helens.  They couldn't have picked a better weekend to go play in the snow!  Saturday, as you all know was absolutely warm and beautiful out!  You can definately tell spring is quickly approaching.  (Minus the fact it snowed at my house this morning!)

We got to the Oram's house around 8:00 Friday night and the boys went to bed around 10:30 to turn around and wake up at 2:00 AM to start their journey down to St. Helens.  They wanted an early start so they had more time to play around and have fun.  I thought they were crazy! haha.

Their hike couldn't have been more beautiful!  I know that pictures don't do justice but, OOh-da-lollie those were some pretty pictures.

There are a few pictures of Mt. Rainier and some of Mt. Adams.  Both Lindsey and I asked them to not fall in to the crater!  They were good boys and stayed far away from the Cornices...  I am glad he did!  It looked steep.

 

Destination Packwood!

Last weekend we went to Packwood where Matt's family have their cabin. I don't know if it's like this for you, but when we go anywhere for the weekend we pack like we are leaving for a month! We seriously need to work on that! I really am scared to see what it would be like when we have kids and Callie!

Matt promised the boys that he would bring the Cougar aka Matt's snowmobile! HAHA this thing is so hilarious...it's straight up 80's and one of my goals is to get Matt an awesome neon colored onesie snowsuit! HAHA Wouldn't that be a sight!

To get to Packwood is about a 4 or so hour drive. We always leave from Matt's work and so we always get down there around 10:00 at night and are exhausted! We got there and we ate some pizza and went to bed.

The next morning we got ourselves all packed up and we went out toward Walupt Lake. All of us were a little nervous that we would not find snow, however at around 4,000 feet we finally founds some of that snow stuff we have seen so little of this winter. Because we only had 1 snowmobile and 6 people we had to take turns getting rides up. We had our sled that we towed behind the snowmobile too!







It was a really fun day. I hung out in the sun snapping pictures while Christian, Blake and Matt took the sled off of some sweet slopes!

On Sunday we went up to White Pass and checked out the Winter Festival they had going on! It was really sunny and there was an awesome castle that you could slide down! I convinced Matt to bring Callie down with him! :)