what we've been doing for the past few weeks

We went to NW Trek with some friends a few saturdays ago. It was a gorgeous day. Mt Rainer was out and so clear on the drive up.

We saw a turtle on the tram ride. I have never actually seen a turtle in all the times we have been so I was pretty excited about that.

It was a beautiful day.

A butterfly landed near us at lunch.

I turned 28 last week and I am officially feeling old. This is the first birthday that has given me true aging anxiety. But I guess that since I am married with 2 kids, feeling like a grown up isn't the worst thing in the world.

Peter and I got to go the the temple. Thanks to Grandma for watching the kids!

I was getting everything ready to go on vacation on Thursday and the girls were just little monsters that day! They were fighting with each other, throwing tantrums, destroying stuff. finally I had enough and sent them to their room. At first they continued fighting and being grumpy but after a few minutes the room was quiet and then there was a bunch of laughing and screaming. I went to see what was so funny and they were packing themselves into our duffel bag, I guess they were ready for a vacation too.

Friday we drove to Sandpoint, Idaho and spent the weekend with my family it was the first Wright reunion for this group, it was so much fun, we stayed in Schweitzer ski resort and spent all day Saturday at Silverwood water park. This picture was the view from our parking lot. It was so gorgeous and peaceful.

This is Pend Oreille lake, this view is about 100 yards from our condo and this was sunset on saturday night.

There was a tie dye bus in Sand point and we all got some tie dye, Peter and the girls got matching t shirts and I got a dress that is similar.

Family picture at the top of the mountain.

We tried really hard to get a good family picture...Violet really likes the ipod though and couldn't be bothered to look up, and when we took it away from her she just made a face, but it's her face so I'm going to count it as a successful family picture. Maybe we will have to all get our tie dye on and try again soon.

More of Pend Oreille (pronounced ponderay). I loved all the different shades of blue.

This is from a viewpoint just out of Ellensburg. There was a sign that said "watch for rattlesnakes" and the girls were asleep in the car so I didn't venture much further than the parking lot, I'm just not too fond of snakes. Anyways that's what we have been doing the past few weeks.

Tomorrow a friend from NY is visiting for a few hours and then this week everyone comes to Oly for the family reunions! I am so excited, it's been a long time since I have seen everyone. We haven't told the kids yet that anyone is coming, we want to surprise them either Tuesday or Wednesday. It's going to be a fun couple of weeks....crazy...but fun :) Love you all, and see you soon!