weekend hike

We have recently decided that it is time once again to change our plan.  I know you have heard this before.  Our plan was to stay in Idaho for a year and enjoy all the seasons!  Although Sandpoint is a beautiful place it has been a struggle to live in such a small job market.  So Oregon will be our summer home again.  We do have a few stops before we settle down for the summer.  We hope to keep you all updated and share our journey with you.
Since our time is limited in Idaho we are trying to take advantage of what mother nature has blessed this place with.  The snow is melting in the foothills of the mountain and spring is in the air, we decided to take advantage of it this weekend with a hike.

Round Lake State Park, is just a few miles from home and a perfect day hike for the three of us.  We enjoyed not being all bundled up, the fresh air and all the day had to offer.  We saw so many birds the best of all a few bald eagles!!

We hope you had a great weekend!!!  Our plan for the week is to do some skiing and maybe explore some of the towns around us.

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Baby its cold outside!

 It was a weekend filled with Christmas spirit.  We have streets filled with snow, and if that does not scream happy holidays I don't know what does!  Being in the holiday spirit we decided it was the perfect time to find our tree.  Seeing that we now live in an area with trees we thought we should go find our tree National Lampoon style.  And that we did!  I would love to say we found a beauty, and there were bright lights shining down and angles singing..... but it didn't go down like that.  Scared of getting stuck we didn't make it too deep in the forest, so this one is more of just off the side of the road with me on watch out for other cars.  Oh and let me tell ya she is a lovely creature.  Not wanting to buy Christmas decorations we have become crafty and kicking it old school this Christmas, cinnamon decorations, popcorn and cranberries.  

For these lovely decorations I got the idea from Pinterest of course!  Yes hers are beautiful and ours look a little rough.  We used a knife and she had cookie cutters.  I say they just go with our theme this year, a very rustic Christmas.

We finally made it up to the mountain to ski!!  I wish I had pictures of us on the mountain but it was way to cold, way to windy for me to even think about taking my hands out of my gloves.  So all in all we had a wonderful weekend.  The only hiccup would be my boots have finally hit retirement and just gave out on my today.  I have never seen a pair of boots do this before!!

Just in time for Santa to get me a new pair!  Hope everyone had a great few days off.  Tune in tomorrow for the start of our Europe trip post!

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