We had a 4th of July BBQ for Neil this year. A bunch of family and friends came out to celebrate--including Neil's friend Cam who was dressed in his oh-so-patriotic "Gators for McCain Palin, Don't Tax Me Bro" t-shirt. Neil smoked some ribs on his grill and people brought yummy salads and drinks to share. Here Neil's modeling one of his b-day gifts--a t-shirt from his favorite restaurant--Dick's.
Abe got an all american bouncy ball (despite the made in China label).
For the rest of the weekend we went camping in Mount Rainier National Park. This was our first time camping there and it was a lot of fun! Here we are hiking up at Paradise. Abe's favorite part was running around in the slushy snow and throwing snow balls. Silly Alaskan.
We stayed at Cougar Rock campground. We did a little hike to carter falls across the nisqually river basin. Abe hiked the entire way up to the falls (about 1.4 miles with some pretty big elevation gain).
Because Abe's middle name means "child of the mountains" we like to refer to Mt Rainier as "his mountain". We get some pretty great views of his mountain from around our neighborhood, but this was our first time getting up close. Abe was super excited for us all to visit.
Peein' in the woods.
A fun time had by all!
