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I had been dying to escape the summer heat ever since we got back from Cali...so we finally coordinated a time and headed north for a weekend full of cool weather, hiking, biking and family fun!

We had an almost perfect weekend...it rained, but we seemed to miss all the worst of it. We hiked, but the kids were all troopers and enjoyed it. We got lost, but the kids took a nap and were recharged for the next hike. We found the property we are going to build our ranch on...

but, it wasn't for sale. We mountain biked down fun hills, but we eventually had to come back up them. We had a volcano all to ourselves, full hundreds of dandelions, that NO one wanted to leave...but, eventually a poopy diaper forced us out. We saw many landscape shots that I wanted to stop and take, but screaming kids kept us on the road. We had no cell service most everywhere we went, but we had Owen's undivided attention. And, we had truck that wouldn't start, but a rock fixed that.

And again...I wasn't ready to leave and come home.