tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159257582024-03-07T01:25:50.444-08:00Aarastas and SarsosariLarkin, Joshua, Noah, Arwen, Sarah, AaronAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15818108640260038371noreply@blogger.comBlogger576125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15925758.post-91104342824073757612015-02-21T21:19:00.002-08:002015-02-21T21:19:53.880-08:00Valentines Day Leftovers<span style="font-size: large;">We built steak and crab legs for Valentines Day dinner. It was delicious. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Noah just couldn't let the awesome looking crab legs go to waste so we built some scary looking finger extenders for him. He loves them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>aarastashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17764090678945680070noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15925758.post-42174264181836996852014-12-31T11:28:00.001-08:002014-12-31T12:13:12.477-08:00Seattle 2014<h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Gum wall under Pikes Place Market</div>
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This was a highlight of the trip when asking the kids their what was the best part of the trip on the way home.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> Top of the space needle. It was cold up there.</span></div>
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The kids all crashed a little after a yummy lunch.</div>
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Arwen found her name.</div>
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The other winner, the troll under the bridge.</div>
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At peace with the idea of a haircut.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He's sure going to miss that hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Arwen and Sarah were out at her soccer game, Larkin was at a friends birthday party and the boy's were playing video games so I had them come out back and help with the yard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> After the lawn was mowed and the boys collected some sticks for our "recreational" fire on a 100 or so degree day we set up the sprinkler and cooled off. </span></div>
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I started off my birthday coaching Larkins U7 soccer game. The girls came up with a name last practice, "Dark Princesses" and we have a fun little cheer. </div>
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When we got home I practiced falling off my highline. It was pretty scary but I got the hang of falling and think I'm ready to hook up a long one next. </div>
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We all went out for some yummy Thai food for lunch. Then Sarah took me shopping for a new suit and some clothes. Larkin tagged along.</div>
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We ended up on 23rd street in portland and got some fun clothes at Prana then walked down the street for some ice-cream at Salt and Straw. There was a long line but it was good.</div>
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I got Almond brittle with Salted Ganache, Sarah got Strawberry Honey Balsamic with Black Pepper, and Larkin got Oregon Rocky Road. They were all really good. While standing in line our server kept giving us sample spoons of other fun flavors. We'll have to head back with the rest of the kids.</div>
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Kelly, John, and the girls Annabelle and Lucy have been here this week for a visit. We all went up to the Gorge for a fun day at the waterfalls.</div>
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The kids all made it over the log jam at Oneonta Gorge without much help this year. They're getting so big. We startled a snake eating a salamander. Noah thought it was pretty funny when the snake pooped on me which was pretty entertaining for all the people around as well. </div>
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<br />aarastashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17764090678945680070noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15925758.post-43704153882719659182014-02-07T15:52:00.001-08:002014-02-07T15:52:55.243-08:00Snow Day'sWe had a nice little snow storm come in yesterday and it's snowing again pretty good right now. One and a half days of no school. I've been working from home too and playing in the snow. We've got about six inches of snow out there now. It's been quite a few years since we've had good snow like this here at home.<br />
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Bear loves the snow. He's like a little child out there eating all he can get.</div>
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The kids have been out in the snow on and off all day having a lot of fun. Wish we had some snow toys and a hill. Joshua spent a lot of time out back making a snow fort to protect him from the snow ball fights. </div>
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<b>Joshua</b>: Building a fortress<br /><b>Arwen</b>: That we get to throw snow balls at people.<br /><b>Larkin</b>: That we could have fun, eat the snow, have snow ball fights, and that we have fun, and get to have hot chocolate with marshmallows, that we get to play with the snow, eat the snow, and that we get a sled in the snow, and we get to eat the snow from the sky, that we got sooooo fun.<br /><b>Sarah</b>: I like snow days more than I like Christmas. I like being with my family, eating treats, and having fun, and playing outside and then getting cozy afterwards. Bear has made it especially fun this year.<br /><b>Noah</b>: I don't know...making snow fortresses.<br /><b>Aaron</b>: I get to work from home and play with the kids in between meetings and work. </div>
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So fast. We brought Bear to the park and there was another dog there he played with. It was fun to see him being so wild and run so fast and not even be able to keep up with the other dog.</div>
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Because poor Aaron didn't make it into the fun family picture above...(Sarah here...don't his eyes look so pretty? Jealous!)</div>
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Santa made his visit and the kids loved it. Santa's my oldest brother David.</div>
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Joshua's pet inch worm he found at the wharf in San Francisco. </div>
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Instead of lot's of stocking suffers we gave them cash to spend "wisely" </div>
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Arwen beat me and all the other uncles at target practice. She's pretty good.</div>
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Joshua's prize jelly. We "pickled" a few of these this morning in a little spice jar I had sitting around. They look cool but we couldn't get air into them to make them float. </div>
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Sarah and I ran in the Zombie Apocalypse Run yesterday evening. It was full of helicopters out "hunting" for zombies, people in hazmat suits, and military out to keep survivors safe. There were even 3 huge machines out showing off their impressive "punkin chunkin" skills. It was awesome!</div>
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All survivors had velcro flags around their waists and if they crossed the finish line with a flag they survived.</div>
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It was a little over a 5k and the survivors got a 2 min head start. It was a trail run and was gorgeous! We went through the spooky woods, corn stalks and farms.</div>
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Both Sarah and I got a few kills under our belt and had a great time. One of Sarah's kills fought back, got his flag from Sarah and ran off course into the fields. (Sarah here--Aaron is being modest. He got lots of kills and I almost had 2. Aaron was one of the very first "zombies" in. We went to Olive Garden after to re-fuel. You should have seen the looks and heard the comments. One old man was disgusted and had some choice words for Aaron. It was great.)</div>
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Joshua was totally excited that he got a Mario backpack this year.</div>
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They have a new school location this year that they are all excited about.</div>
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Arwen has an awesome underground tunnel to her dungeon classroom.</div>
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Which looks like a normal classroom once you get there.</div>
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Here's our 12 man Hood to Coast team. We were team Mustache. Each van has 6 runners and we all run 3 legs to cover the 199 miles from Mount Hood to the beach at Seaside.</div>
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And again on the start line...just a few more minutes to go. Sarah's getting nervous, so are the rest of us.</div>
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Sarah's first leg was a Very Hard due to the rapid 2000 foot elevation drop over 5.64 miles. The scenery is beautify though. She did great. The 2nd leg is the worst because you just ran your heart out and then sit in a car and your muscles tighten up. It's hard enough to walk let alone run your second leg. Sarah's 2nd leg was through the middle of scary downtown Portland for 7.3 miles at night, she handed off the baton at about 10:00 PM. I finished my leg that night at 1:30 in the morning. When we were all done with the 2nd leg we drove to the next exchange point excited to maybe get an hour or two of sleep before we started up again on our 3rd leg. I was falling asleep at the wheal and turned the driving over to Bethany, we only had a few more minutes to the exchange. But there was traffic problems and it ended up taking an hour or so. We spread out a tarp and got in our sleeping bags or just sprawled out in the car for a little sleep. Somehow the few minutes we got were enough to feel a lot better when Sarah started our 3rd leg off. The 3rd leg was pretty exciting because when you were done, you were DONE! </div>
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The whole team at the finish line. Our total time was 28 hours 56 minuets. That's an average of an 8:43 min/mile over 199 miles. Pretty awesome. </div>
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Turns out Noah is an expert belly flopper.</div>
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aarastashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17764090678945680070noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15925758.post-67913293064334028902013-07-28T09:38:00.002-07:002013-07-28T10:54:13.817-07:00PortlandWe went into Portland on Saturday to pick up our Hood To Coast packet and spend the rest of the day playing around in the city.<br />
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Drying off in the sun. She was also very tired and ready for a nap. But was energized after a nap on dads sholder and a little sea lioning in the sun.</div>
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We all had a great day but Noah must have loved it the most.</div>
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I took Noah on a camping and rock climbing adventure this last weekend and he and I had a lot of fun. </div>
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First we hiked around Camp Kilowan mapping out the 5 mile 2nd year hike for Sarah.</div>
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Then next day we drove over to Smith Rock to do some climbing.</div>
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Noah was really good. I want to see what he can do in climbing shoes instead of his clodhopper tennis shoes.</div>
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Though he's a great climber repelling afterwards is still his favorite part. We clocked in at over 15 miles of hiking for the two days. Noah was amazed that he hiked that far without complaining.</div>
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We got a taste of the cold we were in for in Denver on the drive. We thought -11º F was pretty bad but we hit -17º F or so on the way home.</div>
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We took a stop at Shoshone Falls in Twin Falls and had fun looking at all the frozen waterfalls and trying to break holes in a little frozen lake.</div>
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Noah and Joshua loved this box so much they built a bed out of it after playing with it. Tonight we anticipated the E.R. as the kids road it down the stairs. Every kid that was brave enough to take it from the top step ended up getting a little banged up. But that didn't stop them from taking another turn.</div>
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Arwen and I trained for a 5k together this year. We decided to do the Color Run in Portland. Well...let's be honest..."trained" may not be the best word. But I did get Ar to run a couple of times with me. I'm sure all her running at soccer helped prepare her. </div>
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"When I first started running I was not very good at it. When I ran my first practice 5k with Dad um...hey!...ha ha ha... (more giggles)...I was bad at it and I cried the whole time. Well most of the time. When I ran my second 5k with Mom and Dad it was easier but I still cried because I couldn't catch up to Mom and I was so tired. Then I ran my Intel 5k, I walked most of the time. On my fourth 5k I ran like I've been practicing my whole life. It was the color run. You got to get sprayed with color. I had fun and ran fast with Mom." ~Arwen</div>
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There were over 75,000 runners, which made it pretty tricky to actually run, but having all those people out there made it really fun!</div>
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At every kilometer of the 5 kilometer race, color throwers would throw a different color at you. It tasted pretty nasty, but we could spit rainbows, which was totally awesome! </div>
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Arwen and I had fun running it in our matching tu-tu's It got so crowded that we held hands most of the time so as not to get separated. But a couple of times we did, but we found each other quickly because of our tu-tu's.</div>
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It had a pad locked gate behind which a foot trail led off into the woods. Noah tried to squeeze through a small gap between the gate and the fence but couldn't get his head through. Larkin tried and couldn't make it through either until she realized that it widened slightly toward the ground. She got through and took off saying, "Come on Noah." I said he'd better go keep her safe and luckily he was able to squeeze through at the bottom as well or we might never have seen her again. It was a creepy forest. Noah found some awesome treasures including this mummified forest creature.</div>
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Larkin is excited to start preschool and was asking about her uniform. Poor little girl just misses the cutoff for this year.</div>
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Noah and Joshua are in the same class this year. That will be so fun for them. Noah is excited to show Joshua how fun Spanish School is. We're hoping that between Noah's exuberance and Joshua's grumpiness, they'll keep each other balanced. </div>
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Joshua came home and showed off a little Spanish after his first day. He's doing great. He told us he has crushes on three girls...cute girls equals a great school for Josh. </div>
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Arwen, who was terrified to start a new school last year, was super excited to go back this year! She has a great group of friends and a teacher she adores...and a crush. Man, I need to watch out for all these Nielsen kid and their crushes!</div>
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Aaron ran Hood to Coast a couple of years ago and another similar type relay last year (Epic). He has always come home saying how much fun he has running a ton after not sleeping at all :) So this year when his running buddy got a H2C team, I told him I'd like to do it with him.</div>
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Aaron's sister Meghan flew up from Cali to run in our van with us. She is super fast and was so much fun to have run with us.<br />
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Here is van 2 of our team called, "The Running Dead." The 3 other boys are the brothers of Aaron's running buddy (Peter) and were so much fun to have in our van. They kept us laughing for the two days we were stuck in a van with them.<br />
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Here is Aaron after his first leg. He had the hardest leg in our van and was the so fast. He averaged 7min 29sec miles on his 3 legs (19.68 miles). And he did all his super speedy running with a bad sinus cold. I was so proud of him! When Aaron decides to do something he always does his best and I love that about him.<br />
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Meg was helping me stretch before my first leg. I have to say that his was my least favorite. It was in the upper 80's and I had 6.5 miles to run. It was miserable. I loved my 2nd leg at 5 in the morning in the mist of a town called Mist. It was a beautiful 5 miles and felt great. I was just tired by my last leg.<br />
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I always struggle with blisters, but have found that duck tape helps me from getting them. The problem was it was a lot hotter outside than I usually run in (I go at 5 am when it's cold!) and my tape slipped because I got sweaty and my feet suffered. The picture above is from my first run, you should have seen my socks after my 2nd run. They were so bloody. Thank goodness for the first aid tent that cleaned my feet for me.<br />
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I didn't eat too much before my run because I was so darn nervous, but really wish I had. I was starving on my run and my pb&j and banana tasted so good after.<br />
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Here is our whole team at Seaside at the finish. <br />
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I'm glad I did H2C, but it was hard for me. It was hard because I knew I had a team that I couldn't let down and I felt bad because I am not fast and felt like I was holding them back. Running is such a test of mental strength for me and I found that going on no sleep and driving in a van trying to make sure we were at where we needed to be at the right time was so stressful for me. I just wish I was faster and could stop listening to my head telling me that it was just too hard. But I did finish, so I guess that's something.<br />
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It was a blast having Meghan here to run with us. She is amazing and such an athlete.<br />
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Yea! He totally deserved his medal! Which he promptly gave to Noah when we got home.<br />
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As for the awesome zombie tattoos, part of the fun of H2C is dressing the part of your team name. We put these on to cross the finish line running like zombies. It was great fun! (We stopped to get fries and a shake on the way home and I couldn't figure out why the drive-thru lady was being so weird. Then I got home and looked in the mirror and realized why! Creepy!!)<br />
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If would have asked me right after if I would ever run H2C again, I'd tell you no. But after thinking about it a few days later I'd like to try it again and beat my times and over come the mental aspect of it.</div>
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The weather had cooled down enough today to play out in the backyard. I'm hoping it holds out for Hood to Coast this weekend.</div>
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Here's a picture of Joshua and his now "finished" tree house.</div>
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I love the colors he choose. Brown of course had to be the main color. The green is to match the leaves of the willow tree. But most of all I love the door.</div>
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Lulu did a little swinging while the boy's played in the fire.</div>
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Noah and Joshua were rummaging around upstairs and eventually, after emptying all the drawers, ask for help finding black clothes. Why? They were playing spy. Probably they were Tongan spies because they ended up using the shirts as lava-lava's.</div>
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I marinated a couple of pieces of chicken and then roasted them on a stick over the fire for lunch. Only I told the kids it was a skinned rat. (We like to watch "Man vs. Wild" and Bear Grylls is always doing crazy stuff like that.) Arwen got home from a game party and I told her we roasted "rat" but then told her it was really chicken. Joshua got really upset because he thought it really was a rat and chicken wasn't nearly as awesome. Gross adventuresome kids! </div>
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We went to Nike on Saturday to pick up our Hood to Coast packet. The kids had a fun time playing in the fountain and trying samples of "running food." From there we headed up to spend the day in the Gorge.</div>
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Here we are on our way into Oneonta Gorge.</div>
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It was pretty hot up here by the road but when we got into the gorge it was perfect. We spent an hour or so playing by the mouth of the gorge and snoozing in the hammock, balancing rocks, exploring trails, and splashing in the river before we ate our lunch of bread and cheese. </div>
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After lunch we braved the log jam. Getting over was not that bad. The kids were pretty good at staying put when I told them to hold on so I could go ahead and shuttle them one by one to the next safe spot.</div>
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After the log jam it's easy going in the shallow water for quite a ways. We just meandered and splashed around. Then we hit the deep spot. Noah was excited to swim through the deep part until he was neck deep in the freezing cold water. I perched him on a rock to drip dry on the other side and decided that I didn't want to do that 3 more times. Oneonta was crowded and there was a steady stream of people braving the deep cold water with yelps and screams as the freezing water got deeper and deeper. No one was scaling the rock wall to avoid the water and I took that way back to get Joshua. He latched onto my back and we took the wall back to Noah. By the time I was headed back to get Larkin the wall had become a popular alternative to the drink. I had to go over or under people that were less confident on the wall with Larkin and Arwen. Even if you are no rock climber the worst that will happen on the wall is you'll end up in the water where you would have been. </div>
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Here we are at the falls. It was freezing. The air was full of freezing mist from the falls and it was windy. Noah really wanted to swim in the pool under the falls and tried to get to it but got frozen as he got close.</div>
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There were a lot of petrified people on the log jam and the way back and not much movement. We had to take some crazy routes to get to the other side.</div>
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On the other side of the tracks there was sun and shallow water. We found this little "coffin" and all the kids put on their sad faces.</div>
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Eventually we made our way to sandy river to do some swimming. It was hot and we hiked a bit to find a good place to swim. The river here was shallow enough for the kids all the way across.</div>
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Somehow I managed to keep all the kids sunburn free and fed all day. We even found an apple tree on the way to the river. It was protected by thick blackberry brambles. After being punctured who knows how many times I was able to get two of them. They were delicious. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One night after bedtime screams of terror spilled out of the kids room. Taking an easy guess I call Noah down stairs, but <i>Masked Underwear Sock Bunny</i> came down the stairs instead. What little princess wouldn't scream in terror with this sneaking around her room?</span></div>
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