April Weekend

Friday AM we awoke to a winter storm... it snowed until early afternoon, and we ended up with more than two inches of snow on the ground before the sun broke out and it started melting.

The dog was NOT impressed. There should be a mountain here...

All my plants with their sweet spring shoots poking through and the spring blooms looked so pretty poking through the snow. I think they all survived.

The girls woke up, and put their mud-filled snow boots on over their jammies, and went out to play.

That night Papa and Gramma G came to visit us for the weekend, and we went to a Wenatchee Wild Game--the Wild is in the Playoffs, so that's exciting. It was the girls first hockey game, and they spent most of the time with Gramma, which was fine--almost like a date for us, haha! Thankfully, they both came down and sat with us for a bit so that we could explain the rules, and instill in them a sense of how IMPORTANT it all is. :-)

They insisted upon wearing skirts, I could not convince them that was not proper hockey game attire.

It was a good game. :-)

They won!! :-)

The next day we headed up the Entiat Valley to see if we could get to Silver Falls. Silver Falls is a beautiful 1.3 mile hike, I've blogged about it here. Since the snow had fallen the day before, we ended up having to hike 2 miles in on the road to even get to the beginning of the Silver Falls hike. So, that's what we did. If we'd had Rovey along for the ride, we could have driven there. I get Rovey withdrawals when I go places in other cars, can you tell?! Anyway, it was a beautiful hike, and I'm glad we got the experience to walk on a road we normally drive, and if we'd driven to the falls it was still snow-covered and steep enough that I don't think we could have hiked it. So, we hiked TO the hike instead, it ended up being a four mile round trip hike, and while there was a lot of complaining by the children, they really did very well. If they'd been dressed better, they would have been happier, but they stepped in very deep mud in their snowboots this spring, and they are full of mud on the inside, so I didn't want them to wear those... I haven't figured out yet how I'm going to clean them out. Disgusting.

You didn't think I'd forget a pine tree picture, didja?! I'm three-for-three now, I'll have to see how long I can go posting a pic of pine trees in each post. Ok, maybe not.

Walking with Dad... Aw.

The beginning of the Silver Falls hike, I love these stairs! I need stairs like these in my garden someday.

The bottom of the falls.

I had mercy on Debris and piggy-backed her about halfway out. She did so well, and her feet were soaked.

And then, Monday morning we awoke to another light dusting of snow... I took this picture in the afternoon, after it had melted it's way back up the mountain. Hopefully that's done now, and we can get back to the business of SPRING!