Enoch and the Butterfly

Yesterday Enoch called me over to show me he had a butterfly/moth friend. We have read about butterflies and so he knew not to touch it's wings. He had waited quietly and patiently and it had finally crawled onto his fingers. It sat there patiently while I tried to take a picture, discovered the batteries were dead, ran back to my room, got new batteries, tried to take more pictures only to discover that the settings were off, got things corrected and finally took those pictures. Whew! What an awesome experience for Enoch!

Multnomah Falls

After we went to Mt. Rainer the kids went with Grandma Schoenwald and Bart, Nathan and I flew out for an interview in Colorado. On our way home from picking them back up we made our stop at Multnomah falls, another childhood favorite. (Ignore the bad traveling pictures of me.)

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Mt. Rainer

We went camping up at Mt. Rainer in Washington with Grandma Schoenwald and Aunt Steph. We used to go when I was a kid all the time and we have been wanting to do this with our family for a long time. It was the best! So check out the next several posts about our trip!

Joel and Mosquitos

Joel and mosquitos just don't get along. He has always had bad reactions to mosquito bites so we kept him well sprayed. However, our efforts were in vain. They LOVED Joel! Didn't really care about anybody else. So Joel looked like he had chicken pox! At least he's still smiling!

Camp and it's wildlife

Here is a picture of our camp, which included Grandma Schoenwald and Aunt Steph.
Unfortunately, I have a bad habit of taking pictures of all the cute kids and forget to take pictures of the not-so-cute adults. However, Grandma and Steph are cute enough to sneak them in there now and then! (I also try to be BEHIND the camera as much as possible!)
We had lots of critters camping with us. Squirrels, Stellar's Jays, a vole and Two frogs.

Silver Falls

Another one of our favorite hikes is Silver Falls. The flooding a few years ago destroyed some of the lookouts but you can still get close to them on the rocks.