Perfection

Our weekend could be summed up in one word. Perfection. Plain and simple. Perfection.

It started with a last minute dinner with Cory's sister, brother-in-law and sweet sweet baby Jonas.

It continued with yard work and playing outside on Saturday.

Dinner with friends Saturday night.

A speed bump disguised as a cold Saturday night/Sunday morning that hit in a major way. We even got all dressed and headed to church and Home Depot... only to turn around and skip church. I was quite the bump on a log but enjoyed napping outside in the sun and loved watching my kids and neighbor kids play on the slip in slide in the backyard.

Back on track Monday morning when we packed up and headed out for a surprise destination. We love surprising our kids. LOVE. IT. Our kids? Yeah. Not so much. Our destination??

Multinomah Falls. It was beautiful!! The weather was fantastic. The attitudes were so so. We headed up the 1 mile trek to the top. Caden was a little fearful, but as long as we held his hand he was okay. Once we got to the top though... oh my. He was SO glad he made the journey. It was breath taking and the kids thought it was oh so cool (not to mention the banana slugs we saw along the way. Those things are HUGE!)

We ended our time at the falls with a picnic at the bottom and savored the gorgeous weather and amazing view. We had such a great time. We agreed this would not be done for another year. It was fun. It was tiring. Climbing a mile up while carrying a child much of the time? Yep. We'll see you again next year Multinomah Falls!

As we headed home, we decided to surprise our kids once again... but, I think I'll keep that one to myself for just a bit longer...

We pulled into the driveway around 3:30 and started chatting with our fantastic neighbors. This led to their backyard for some baseball, wine and weed pulling. Yep. Their yard is huge and we just kind of started weeding. Yep. We're sick like that. What seemed like 30 minutes later their yard was transformed and there were piles of weeds all waiting to be picked up.

Tired as can be, we headed home. Cereal for dinner and off to bed. The weekend could not have gone any better. We loved every second of our time together. We loved every moment in the sunshine. We laughed with family and friends. It was perfect.

Thank you Lord for such perfection here on earth. Thank you for such an amazing family. For wonderful friends. For sunshine and waterfalls. For weeds and wine. Thank you for our kids giggles, excitement and anticipation of what's to come.