Another hiking post! This one was from the past weekend, it was perfect weather for a hike. Braulio and I hiked the Summerland Trail in the Sunrise area of Mt. Rainier (NE of the mountain). It was about a 5mi climb in, eventually coming to some wildflower meadows with lovely vista points of the mountain.

This first picture shows some rocky crags like you never see in the Appalachians ;-)

We were climbing up through a bit of a ravine.

Creek! With a very narrow little bridge.

Crossing the bridge takes skills.



Ta-da! Mt Rainier. It doesn't look nearly as imposing in the picture as it did in person, but I swear, its enormous. And very snowy.


Maybe I'll climb it one day?

It's turning into a bumper season :)

So Jason and I went out to Lowes and Home Depot yesterday and picked up a bunch of paint swatches and now we are officially overwhelmed...so many colors to choose from!

Below is the cross stitch that Aunt Linda gave us last Christmas...this definitely has to be hung up in our kitchen, so I guess this is my inspiration for the kitchen paint colors. What do you guys think? Would a pale green look nice, or should I just go with neutral colors... The living room/dining room will definitely be neutral because of the pink carpet. And I'm thinking that whatever color I choose for the kitchen I'll just carry it over into the family room, so I need to pick something I'll really like since those are the two rooms where we'll spend most of our time!