Mother's Day - Mount St. Helens

On Mother's Day, PNW folks  have a tradition where they climb Mount St. Helen's in a dress to honor their moms.  Thanks to an invite from our good friend Carolina,  Lucas and I were able to partake in this fun (and exhausting!) event this year.

We left for the volcano on Saturday night, camped in the trailhead parking lot with a bunch of other climbers, and left for the summit at 5am on Sunday.  We summited around 10:30/11ish and were able to glissade (literally slide down the snow on our butts, for those of you who don't climb) about 3000 of 5500' of gain we climbed that day.  It was a fantastic day with sunny weather and lots of meetings with friends along the way.

We made it back to Seattle in plenty of time to have drinks with Mark and Megan, Lucas' friends from college, and it was wonderful catching up with the cute couple!

An Anniversary and some nature therapy

With two posts, this is officially my longest blog ever!  Lucas and I stole away to Camano Island to celebrate four years together.  We brought Kaia, went for a long walk, and had a bonfire on the beach where we had our wedding this past October.

Just for fun, here's a picture of Lucas, me, and Kaia at our weekly Pub Trivia :)

After a couple of busy weeks for Lucas in grad school and me at work, we skipped over to Leavenworth for a quick jaunt up Sauer Mountain and took Kaia on her first camping trip.  The weather was a little rainy but warm and clear enough for good views of the surrounding ridges.

The wildflowers were beautiful, and Lucas
was showing his Gamecock pride!!

Summit!

"what?"

Both weekends were awesome and we're looking forward to bigger adventures once the snow melts!