outside

I love to be outside! And i LOVE the sun. That's why summer is my most favorite time of the year! There's just nothing better than getting to be outside, it doesn't matter if i'm just sitting in the grass, hiking, walking down the street, playing in the water, or just going to take out the trash, it makes me happy to be outside in the sun! When i'm inside i always open all the blinds in the whole house because i want it to be as bright as possible! Summer is just the best, this summer is quite a bit different from the other summers in my life, and I'm thinking i may have to get used to it, at least for a little bit. I miss having summers off from school and from work and from any worries and just going on long road trips and vacations the whole time. That was so fun and i will always remember and treasure those times because they really were a huge part of my life. were not quite in the position where we can do all those things now though, with Jared working and not getting any time off. Hopefully as he moves his way up the Walmart chain we will get more time to vacation!
But don't worry, were not completely boring people :) We've made some of our own little mini vacations on the weekends!

A couple weekends ago we went for a drive up the mountains and took our gun and went shooting. It was a fun day out :)

We stopped on this bridge over the river. i want to take a tube up and float the rapids another weekend!

 

 

After shooting we went to the Rose Gardens, it was a cool place. (Can you spy me? I was hiding!) haha

I thought that ray of light shining was kinda cool

This was at a mansion up on a hill and we could see the whole Portland City from up here!

Another Weekend we went on a picnic at a duck pond we know about. The picnic was really fun but then we tried to feed the ducks afterwards and they wouldn't eat our bread! They were already full! So I thought we needed to find some other ducks that were hungry to feed our bread to. So we googled a new place to go and fed those ducks instead and they LOVED it! They were starving! :) And then we found a trail along this little creek nearby and we hiked that, it was fun!

This is jared chasing the ducks that were too full to eat our bread. He figured they needed some exercise. haha

Here we are on our little hike up the creek

we went camping this past weekend. There's our tent in the background

Jared made a nice fire with all the sticks we found around camp

We hiked up to thee top of the hill

There were flowers EVERYWHERE, they were pretty. I had to smell them. :)

he is just so cute i had to kiss him

Kidney Lake

This past weekend we went camping at Kidney Lake. It's across the Columbia River in Washington. We had a lot of fun hiking and making fires and hanging out, but sleeping on the ground was NOT fun for me while pregnant! The last 8 pictures were from our camping trip.

So this has been our fun the past few weekend! It's such a great life :)