Eagle Crest Family Vacation

Self portrait at lake billy chinook

View at base of smith rock
My cheesy, artsy picture of M & B making daisy chains

B and baby Canon or "Candon" as she would call him

Kelly and I at the top of Pilot Butte

Smith Rock

Coolest park in downtown Bend, they had a rock climbing wall!

Relaxing and playing babies at the condo

LOOOOOVES the water

Do you see the mischief in those gorgeous eyes???

What a fantastic week we had! Matt had 10 days home with us...and it was glorious! Brooklyn crashed into the bathroom counter the night we left for vaca and had a huge bruise (two actually) for the entire trip on her sweet cheek. Yup, that's my girl. This was not the first time I have felt paranoid that people were looking at us like "what did you do to your kid". She is so darn determined to do what she wants, when she wants and how she wants it, regardless of the consequences. We have been praying about how to cultivate and nourish this spirit of hers while keeping her safe, in one piece and without broken bones.

I digress. Vacation was woooonderful. We had the cutest little condo over at Eagle Crest resort in central OR where we did a whole lot of relaxing by the pool, picking flowers out back by the creek, listened to lot's of "musac" as B calls it and eating. It was all that vacation should be! It was also the first time we have been away for more than a day or two just the three of us.

We went to lake billy chinook, hiked around smith rock, climbed pilot butte with the Vlach's and their new baby Canon (or as b calls him "baby candon"), had a great visit with G'ma Carol and G'pa Keith, ate out a few times, went to several parks and hung by the pool. Couldn't have asked for nicer weather, low 80's the whole time. Fabulous.

You know how you know we are first time parents, because we thought we had the greatest travel plan all figured out for B's schedule. Ha! Best laid plans. We left Thursday eve at 8, thinking B would crash and just sleep the whole way over. Nope, she was up til we hit Sisters, so she didn't fall asleep til 20 min before we got there. Thankfully she was in a great mood the whole drive, singing and talking to us. The ride home was another story. We planned that trip around nap time. Left at 1, she crashed 10 min after we left and woke up 30 min later- in a FOUL mood. So from Detroit lake on, she pretty much cried. We were ready for a vacation from vacation by the time we got home :) It's hard work being two years old and confined to the car seat.