What I love about summer!

1. Hiking!! (Especially when the fam comes to visit and we get to show them beautiful Oregon!) We hiked Spencer’s Butte and the incredible Silver Creek Falls with its “Trail of 10 Falls”. We only made it to 7 of them (the girls were getting a bit restless!), but it was still absolutely beautiful.

The whole clan at the top of the Butte!

Uncle Isaac packing Sage (it was a nice break!)

Kind of hard to see, but we're behind the first waterfall

My buff, daring...and freezing brothers after braving the river!

2. Spending time with our family! Okay, really it’s even more hiking, but what can we say…we love it! (Not to mention, we have a two year old that when asked what she wants to do every day her answer is inevitably “go to the park” or “go on my hike and find a waterfall”!) This past weekend we had quite an adventure and took the “road less-traveled” to the Kentucky Falls. Literally we drove on a dirt road laden with gigantic potholes (poor Focus, guess we should have driven the Explorer!). It took us nearly two hours (even though it was only about 60 miles from our house) and at times we wondered if we would ever see civilization again (we quite literally drove to the middle of the Oregon Coast forest range!), but it was SOOO worth it! It was breathtakingly beautiful, totally private and all-in-all a perfect Saturday. And we even all got a nap in when we got home. :)

Waterfalls just never get old. They were Beautiful!

3. Even more family time!! We built a giant fort in our living room and it was awesome! The girls loved it and Nate even got to watch the World Cup Championship from inside! :) Gotta love lazy Sundays!

Hanging out in the fort!

4. The pool! Girls are totally contained and entertained, I get to soak up the sun and sip lemonade and it doesn’t cost a dime. Can’t get better than that! :)

My bathing beauties!

5. Barbeques! I should have a picture for this, seeing as how it is nearly a daily occurrence, but I don’t. Darn. And too bad, Nate looks really good by the barbeque! :) Literally Nate has BBQ’d something almost every night he has been home. Not only is it delicious, but I’m off the hook for cooking and there is minimal clean-up. LOVE IT!!

Gotta love summer!