Mother's Day at the Iris Gardens

 For Mother's Day I wanted to walk around the Iris Gardens. 

 

 

 Several years ago I took pictures of the kids running at this same garden. I decided to have the kids reinact the picture.  Sydney didn't want to participate, she was in a bad mood.  That's why you'll notice she's not in many pictures.

 After so many good smiles, the boys just had to get crazy and do silly faces.

 To lift Sydney's mood I let her have the camera to take a few pictures.  It was her first time using the camera and these were some of the pictures she took. Pretty good I think!

 

 

 

 

 

Camping Silver Falls

 The weather has been unusually good this spring, and we just happened to have no baseball games on Saturday, so we decided to plan a "last minute" camping trip to Silver Falls!

 

We called several other families and invited them to come along, and most of them did.

We were only able to go for one night.  That's a lot of packing and unpacking for such a short trip, but still worth it.  We went up early before we could get into our site and played in the day use area.

 Our camp site was the best one in the whole campground (I think so anyway).  It backs right up to this!  Giant logs crossing the creek.  All the kids spend 90% of their time playing in this area, which left all the adult hanging out by the fire, and still able to see the kids.

Our kids brought the brand new fishing poles they got for Christmas.  Of course we didn't catch anything.

 Some of the favorite things about camping are sleeping in a tent, and playing with the fire.