If there's one thing I can say positively about my awesome kids, it's their love of nature. From their first adventure, to the first hike, these two always seem to be down for whatever I can come up with - or in this case, what their Aunt and Uncle can come up with! Chris and Janie invited us on a trip to Mount Rainier. I've only been once before, and there was minimal exploring because of the snow. This time around the snow was cleared off most of the roads, so we were able to go from once side to the other and make an entire day of it! We packed lunches, picnic'd on some benches on the side of the road with a beautiful mountain view, and checked out everything we could find along the way!

Exploring the Grove of Patriarchs, which is translation for seriously huge trees! Of course, they still aren't comparable to the giant Sequoias that are native to California (we visited last summer), but they were quite large. The trees were a few thousand years old and trails were scattered all around and throughout them.