Long time no chat! Sorry about that, has been really busy around here. Just before we left for camping, I made an enclosure for our chicks and mama hen. We didn't leave until the next day after we had planned. Too afraid that the skunk would return for another chicken dinner, so we stayed home an extra day to build the enclosure. It's not pretty, but it's sturdy with a double leayer that little skunk hands cannot reach through. DH made an extra sturdy plywood top and an extra heavy door. So far, we still have all 8 remaining chickies and a happy mama hen!

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from our trip. I'll post more, but this is a start. We drove up to Seattle to see DH's sister. Hi, Kelsie! She recently moved back up there has a great place. We also visited REI up there, I HAD to! It's a two-story HUGE REI store. We all loved it. They have a great restaurant where we ate Thai, there's a climbing rock in a separate building area, and you can see that the boys loved that! J was just awesome, in the literal meaning of the word, not just slang. When I asked how far he thought he might try to climb, he told me he would go to the top. And that he did and rang the bell. Shocked the belayer below, the guy that helped him into his climbing harness and holds the ropes. The rock is 65 feet high... that's like 6 and a half stories tall!! It was so tall that I could not get the whole thing in a picture! He scurried up so fast that it was hard to get a picture of him. My sweet little L climbed too, but only a little ways up, and I was proud of him too for giving it a try.



Below is a picture along the Oregon coast. Was so pretty! Little E was a good baby as usual on the trip and slept well in the the tent. We saw a lot of beautiful ocean and mountains. DH fixed our dinner and breakfast on the cobb grill, gotta love that thing!



Talk more later. Sending you hugs. Have a good night from the 5 of us