Our Luggage

The other day our new luggage arrived.(For those who don't know Lee and I are going to Peru this summer for 10 days.) We ordered some new backpacks so we could travel easier. Mara was looking at our luggage and asked if she was going on our trip. We told her only the things that fit in our luggage were going. A little while later we took these pictures of her in our luggage. It goes to show you how inventive children can be. She then told us since she could fit in our luggage then she should be able to go on our trip with us!:)

This will be the first time Lee and I have left our children for more than overnight. I know they will be fine. I will be the one having withdrawl. None the less I am very excited for our trip. Especially with Lee finally graduating, we have been so busy and overloaded it will be nice to get away together. Kind of like a 2nd honeymoon.:)

Jumped on the Bandwagon!

So I have caved and finally started a blog. For a long time I was resistant to the idea of blogging, because I thought it would take to much of my time. But to be honest, I am a horrible journal keeper, so I thought maybe I should chronicle something of our family. Lee and I will probably be the only one's looking at our blog for now, but I think it will be fun to write about events and adventures in our lives.

This is our family at the Tillamook Cheese Factory when we went to Oregon last summer.

The kids loved seeing the assembly lines of how cheese is made, and where it comes from and where it goes.

This is our family at Cape Meares lighthouse. They have the most gorgeous forests and trees in Oregon.

This is the imfamous Octopus tree. It is a single Sitka Spruce that has formed a ring of trees around where the original trunk once stood.

Our next blog we will introduce our family.