The forgotten photos

Somehow these photos were left out of the Bend post...

Aiden and Aubrey are two peas in a pod when it comes to personality!!

Ainsley at the obsidian flow

Aubrey and Ella at the obsidian flow

Family photo time!!

In the parking lot of the obsidian flow, the chipmunks would come right up into the kids hands and eat snacks. Of course, this type of behavior is highly discouraged not allowed. As we were heading into the obsidian flow, we passed a park ranger and she stopped to chat with the kids. What do you think the first thing the kids told the ranger was? Yep, "We fed the chipmunks some goldfish and they ate them RIGHT OUT OF OUR HANDS!" "Oh, I know how exciting that can be but we don't want to feed the chipmunks because then they aren't afraid of humans and might get hurt," the ranger tells them. "I'm going to feed the chipmunks again!!" SShhhh!!! This was one of those parenting moments when we struggled to do the right thing. We are cityfolk; feeding wild animals isn't something we do on a daily basis and little chipmunks are cute. Do we want to be responsible for the reduction of the chipmunk population because we fed them? No. But will our few goldfish crackers really cause an extinction? Probably not. So we may have shared a little bit of our lunch with the resident critters ;-)

Ella, Nathan, Aubrey and Aiden

Such beautiful scenery!

Neal took the maiden voyage down the waterfall before we turned the kids loose!

Caleb and Ainsley! I may be biased, but we have the cutest kiddos =)

I think this marks the official end to summer. All the camping photos are shared, the blog is up-to-date and the sunny days now require jeans. At least we can say we had the most fun possible this summer!!