Did you have a wonderful Easter? Ours was lovely. We had lunch at church (fancy holiday lunch with beef, ham, and lamb. Mmmm… lamb…), and then the fam all came over to our house for informal snacks & dessert. Other than that, busy weekend over here.

We took the kids up the Columbia Gorge on Friday (eighty degree weather that day, which is atypically warm for around here this time of year) and hiked to the top of Multnomah Falls, which is a two mile round trip hike straight up (one mile up, one mile back down). Okay, so it has switchbacks that crisscross the mountain so it’s not straight up, but it’s plenty steep and when you carry a fourteen month old for 97% of the hike it might as well be straight up. In case you were wondering, that is probably not the smartest way to get a ball of chub up a hill.

Handsome Hubby carried our two year old Kyra a good lot of the way too, and we were both bushed when we got back home. The kids hopped out of the car and immediately wanted to go jump on the trampoline. How do they do that??? The older three did amazingly well on the hike, and I think Trinity (age 6) particularly enjoyed herself. We were only planning to walk to the bridge one-fifth of a mile up, but as soon as we got that far she started lobbying to go to the top. She practically bounced like Tigger the whole way up. Such a doodle.

Saturday I spent all day prepping for Sunday and collapsed into bed at 12:30 and spent all day running around again on Monday. Tuesday I sat on the couch and watched the Fellowship of the Ring for three hours to decompress and now I’m all better. Hurray!

Rachel