Monday, August 17, 2009

Injuries and Camping in Seattle

So while we were camping in Washington, Taylor and his brother in law went on an 80 mile bike ride up Mt. St. Helens. The ride was crazy hilly, but Taylor was really excited for this ride. The boys were really happy when they made it to the top and mostly looking forward to a much easier ride downhill.... Apparently though Taylor was unaware that speed limits are not just for cars. Turns out when you take a sharp corner at 35 mph, it doesn't turn out so well. Luckily Taylor's helmet broke his fall. Taylor survived with a cut on his nose from his glasses and his ear was sliced open by the plastic part on his helmet....The helmet however was not so lucky. Hard to tell from this picture, but the helmet is just cracked all over. After travelling 20 mi to the nearest hospital, we decided we could patch Taylor up ourselves. This is how it turned out.... The rest of the camping trip was a lot of fun. We stayed in a cabin and since there were 10 babies under the age of 4, Taylor and I decided to set up camp in a tent outside.

Back to Blogging!

So I realize it has been a long time since I have posted anything, but I have decided to attempt this blogging thing again.
To sum up everything in a year would be difficult so I'll just recap the most recent stuff. We actually just moved to a 2 bdr apartment and we are loving the extra space! Last week we went on vacation and it was wonderful! We started off by going to Utah for a wedding and family reunion.
We had lots of fun playing with all our nieces and nephews. They absolutely love their Uncle Taylor.
I wonder why....he is just a really big kid :)
We also enjoyed our first trip to Cabella's.....don't be fooled by the look on Taylor's face, he is actually very excited. We then continued our adventures up in Seattle with Taylor's family. One of my favorite things we did was go to Forks, WA....if you don't know why that is cool then skip this next part and also try not to judge me.
We took a ferry over at like 6 in the morning and drove for 3.5 hours....Taylor was the best too! He let me be a 15 yr old girl for a day and didn't even complain. The drive over was absolutely gorgeous.
We did all the touristy stuff and it was so much fun. The beaches were my favorite part. This hike to Second Beach was so pretty. Also Taylor loved climbing on all the driftwood and I caught this video of him which I think is kinda funny.


We ended our journey in Port Angeles. This sticker made me laugh....