Back to the cabin!

After having many commitments in town during October, we are finally able to make it back out to the cabin! Last weekend we had Sara, Jay, and Josie over and it was so nice to catch up! Josie is an happy, beautiful baby girl and a delight to be around. Reed liked teaching Josie things, like how to play "Guess Who."

We also made sure all of the kids had the correct fitting ski and snow gear. We do! Now - we just need to wait for some snow!

This weekend, we went for a small hike around the Leavenworth ski hill which was fun in the crunchy leaves.

  

This is also the site for the Leavenworth Summer Theater - something we are looking forward to taking the children to when they are a little older. The view over the valley behind the stage is breathtaking (but we missed a picture of it).

 After the hike we went to Gustav's for dinner - one of our favorite restaurants in Leavenworth. Big thanks to Dirk and Annie for the gift certificate! The kids loved that we splurged on ice cream sundaes!

 

Eben took us driving up on the ridge behind our house - there is a whole maze of forest roads back up there. We had to move this tree out of the way to get by. That was a big effort. 

 We also had some trouble with the low front faring on the Durango and ended up having it get pulled mostly off by a big drop off into a mud puddle. When we noticed it hanging mostly off, Eben ended up cutting it all the way off with a corkscrew knife. Looks all fine now, but probably losing a mile per gallon without the same aerodynamics.