Spring Break Plus

Boards are over. Dev took this grueling yucky long test March 15th and 16th. All the studying he has been doing paid off I’m sure. I think I'm as much relieved that it’s over as he is. It has been hard to not have him around for the past few months. 

The week right after his test came SPRING BREAK!!! I  have been looking forward to this for a long time. A very long time. Not only did I get to spend all week with the husband, but we planned a trip to the Redwoods in California with some friends. There’s nothing that could be wrong with that plan! We left for Crescent City, California on Tuesday. The plan was to meet up with our friends, the Johansen’s, and then later the Bolick’s would meet up with all of us. The drive down was GORGEOUS. Wonderful sunny spring weather. Perfect! We stayed in a 3 bedroom house that was better (bigger) than I expected. It was in the forest near a river and one day, I hope to retire to a place similar :)
Here’s Dev and Nate next to the river:

Here’s my cute little fam on the patio of the house

The first day we were there, we drove to Jedediah Smith Redwood State Park to go on some hikes to see the big trees. I was a little worried that our spring break would be ruined by the rainy weather, but it couldn’t have been better weather for hiking. We actually got to see some sun!  Here are a few pictures (yes, a few. I could have put a ton more)  highlighting our little hike:
Cameron and Dev

Me and Nathan
The group of us: Johansen’s, Bolicks, Farr’s

The guys: Randy, Devin, Eric


The gals: Tana, Me, Katie (notice how I pawned off my child for someone else to carry :) Thanks Katie!)


It took all I could muster (is that a word?) to stretch from one tree to the other

The boys did fantastic on the hikes! This was their first trip in a backpack carrier and I think they LOVED it. We were hiking for a few hours and they were so content to sit there and look at all of the trees around them.

The second day we were there, we got to drive through a tree. Pretty exciting, I know!

We also stopped to see the 50 ft Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox, Babe.

It was an extremely fun trip and I would recommend it to anyone! It was a ton of work and I really appreciate now what my parents went through in order to take me and my siblings on all the vacations that we went on as a family.  But it was so worth it! It was also fun to go with some friends that we will soon be1 leaving as we go on Devin’s clinic rotations. I am going to miss them!!!

And as you may have noticed, Nathan is sporting a pretty sweet cranial orthotic. Yup, we’ve started that whole process to get his noggin’ fixed. And I think this picture sums up how he feels about it and how I feel about it:

He is being a good sport about it though. He is a bit more fussy as he’s trying to get used to it but he’s doing fine. He wants to be held a lot more and his pacifier is working overtime these days. Because he’s still getting used to it while sleeping, he did get to sleep in the big bed with me on our vacation while Devin slept on the couch and I think he thought that was pretty cool:


So now the spring break is over, the next countdown begins for our move up to Washington (but wait, let’s not forget about the countdown until my 3oth BIRTHDAY! Oh, what to do to celebrate?!). We don’t have a moving date and we don’t have a place to live. We’ve got less than two months. It’s going to fly by.