The Silver Lining

After a busy holiday weekend last weekend, we were ready for something a little more low key this weekend.  The kids and I didn't even leave the house yesterday.  It was wonderful.

Sunny summer weather finally decided to make an appearance.  We couldn't completely waste that.  I'd been thinking of taking the kids down to Silver Falls for our weekly Sunday walk and this seemed like just the afternoon to do it.

Despite miles of trails included in this park, Siena was more taken with the benches.

Thanks to some erosion and a little worker assistance, you can walk behind several of the falls at this park.  Here's the kids behind the 177 foot tall South Falls.  It's close enough that we could feel the mist.

Taking advantage of a seat on our hike.

Both kids took a break on this seat.  We'll have to cut them a little slack.  We did walk 2-3 miles and they did amazing.  They had way more energy than I did going up the hills.

Behind Lower South Falls. 

Mason displays one of the tree chimneys, where hot lava engulfed and disintegrated trees many years ago.

The kids must have burned some energy because I didn't even have to urge them to eat dinner.  They inhaled their Shari's pancakes, much like the lava did the trees many years ago at Silver Falls.

As promised, here's a picture of Mason's completed room.  His bed arrived Wednesday night.  Luis and I did our parenting duty, staying up late putting it together.  We finished putting pictures up and Mason's stuff away over the weekend.  No longer a baby room, that's for sure.  The only problem, now he likes his room so well that I can no longer send him there time out...