Silver Falls

We had a number of beautiful weekends in May, and one of them, we took a trip to Silver Falls to see some waterfalls.

Jacob and Claire had their own hiking backpacks with water packs.  They were great hikers!

I love the colors at Silver Falls.  The area near the falls is permanently wet, so there's lots of deep greens.  With the sunshine, it made for some neat colors.

The two large waterfalls we saw had areas behind that you could walk.

Whereas Jacob and Claire would fall asleep in the hiking backpacks when they were little, Kate and Liam were so excited to be outside that they were awake and excited the entire time!  

They were really smiling and chattering almost the whole time!

Jacob and Claire were good little buddies on the hike.

This is the second of the waterfalls.

Afterwards, we had a picnic at the side of a little (really cold) river.  It was a fun day with the family!