Camping

After the month long bathroom renovation/moving our stuff to the house my parents and Tyson drove out to visit during Josh's vacation week, which just so happened to start the day we officially moved in. It was a tad bit crazy. Since the pipes in the house all looked like this in the beginning...

(That's rust.) Josh had decided to redo all the plumbing in the house in one go. That meant the kitchen sink had to be torn apart. Luckily after getting the plumbing back up and running, and the week before my family came out, Josh's mom came out to help us clean and organize. She was heaven sent. Without her I don't know when I would have gotten to cleaning and our kitchen wouldn't have been livable.  

Luckily the day after my family showed up we got out of there anyway. After a month of hard nonstop work we were excited for a break. And it was awesome. we headed out to the Olympic Peninsula and pitched our tents in a campground with an insane view of Lake Quinalt. 

We had a blast exploring near camp, and playing games.

Some of us (the crazy ones) did some swimming in the freezing lake. And always at night for some reason.

Poor Josh had been working SO hard. We're pretty lucky to have him.

We met some funny critters that stuck with me and became inspiration for baby boy's nursery.

Have you seen the Hoh Rainforest? No, I mean the Hooooohhhhh Rainforest. You should. It's quite amazing. We spent a large part of our time singing the Jurassic park theme song and were really tempted to ask the park rangers where you go to see the T-Rex.

Camping while pregnant is not advised. Unless you have a really comfy pad to sleep on. I remember getting almost zero sleep the first two nights until I complained enough that my parents remembered they had some extra bleacher pads in their car and I stole them to pad my hips.

On the way home we swung by La Push and hiked down to second beach. It was the first time we'd really seen the sun and it was beautiful.

I think my mom saw the whole peninsula through binoculars. ;) She's a birder and had fun trying to spot some she'd never seen before.

We also collected a mountain of driftwood. I wanted to collect enough to make a mobile for the nursery, but we all couldn't stop picking pieces up. Driftwood is cool, but probably the coolest piece was this ring found by my mom. It was an awesome trip and a much needed break from the house. We can't wait for our next camp out!