Spring Break Week

I love Spring!  It is my most favorite season!  I took the kids to the library this morning.  I snapped these awesome pictures while I was there in the parking lot.

We have blue sky and no rain!  I am so excited!

And a close up of the beautiful spring blossoms!

This is our beautiful green grass in the backyard.  I wish our front yard was as green and as beautiful as this!  I think the teens need to get the mower to work and mow the lawn!

A local farm close by home.

A rainbow for me is always a little piece of Heaven.  This was taken driving down the freeway this past weekend.

Just a little bit of home for me.  Home being the greater Seattle/Tacoma area.

Have a great Spring Break week.  What are you going to do with kids this week while they are out of school?

Mount Rainier & Puyallup River

My husband had a day off recently.  He wasn't quite ready to go home after we got his fishing license and then went out to eat. He turned the car the opposite way than home and started driving.  He was told of this town with a big sporting good store.  (It's not that big!)  He wanted to find it.  It was a cute little town, older place near the valley of Mount Rainier.  There was a fun park we stopped at to let the kids play.  It has these awesome trees. 

I love this line of trees.

This one reminds me of a tree in my grandparent's yard in Utah. (Their kids sold their home this past summer.)

These trees would make some awesome tree houses! At the park we saw this peek-a-boo view of Mount Rainier too.

I love seeing this mountain.  It's so relaxing; it also makes me grateful for all the man upstairs has given and done for me.  Okay, now onto the pictures of the river!

I love how the sunlight glistens on the water!  We stopped at the river to see if there could be a swimming hole to take the kids this summer. NOPE!

Way to deep to swim in even with a life jacket.

The water was way too choppy & swift for kids to swim in it. 

On our way back home my husband pulled off the road so we could take these pictures of Mount Rainier! 

Right after I snapped this picture my husband grabbed the cell phone and snapped the following picture.

He took a few of this same view, as we were standing on the sidewalk, on a bridge, over the river we just visited.  He almost dropped the camera (my cell phone) in the river twice.  My youngest looks at me and says, 'mom it's okay if daddy drops it, he'll have to earn money to buy you a new one.  I'll make sure he does'! What a love bug I've raised.

Oh this river is the Puyallup river that runs thru the small country town of Orting Washington USA.

All the pictures here are taken by me (except for the last picture of Mount Rainier, taken by my husband) with the Samsung Galaxy 4S cell phone.  I love this phone!  The camera is definitely the most used feature on the phone. (Yes, probably even more than talking and texting!)


Have you gone exploring with kids this summer as a family or by yourself?

Baby Trees

My husband came home from work with these little baby trees.  He said his company is going to celebrate Eco Day instead of Earth Day (the day after).  He told me over the phone how awesome these little trees are.  He mad it sound like these cute little Christmas trees.  I was upset with him because they look like a branch broken off a big Evergreen tree.  He said these trees will grow to be as big as the row of trees in his parent's backyard.  He said those grew real fast.  Not sure I am buying this now that I have seen the trees.  He potted them in some cheap pots from Walmart, using Miracle Grow soil.

There's actually four of them.  He used chopsticks to help them grow straight up and not blow over on windy days. I'll take new pictures of them soon (I got a new cell phone that takes awesome pics). He wants to plant them in the yard of the home we buy.  When he bought the plants he also got me two baby cactus.  He said he always wanted one!  I guess he really didn't get them for me! Hopefully he doesn't kill those off too like the plants I had when we were first married!

What kind of plants do you have at home?