Histand Family Camping Trip ~ 2013

Maryhill, Washington

The beautiful rainbow I saw from our campsite.

The Columbia River and the bridge you

cross over to get from Oregon to Washington

The boys at one of our campsites playing in the dirt

with their trucks.  We had 2 sites, 1 trailer and 3 tents.

We left on a Thursday and stayed through Labor

Day weekend, returning home Monday.

Josiah and Olivia

They played so well together the whole weekend

and became quite good little playmates.  So

were so cute together!!!

The girls doing a craft.  They took water balloons

and tied them to flip flops and make fun shoes.

Such a fun and cute idea and they thought they

were pretty cool!

Their final product and oh so proud!!

It was very warm while we were there so

we spent several afternoons in the water.

It felt cool and refreshing!

Owen and Ellis.  They played hard!

More fun at the water.



Ellis and Kara

Another craft.  We could not have fires which was such

a bummer!  Camping isn't quite the same without them.

So grandpa brought tin cans along and we made

little tin lanterns to hang up around the campsite.

The kids had fun making them!

Uncle Ron helping Olivia make her lantern.

We took a drive one afternoon and drove to an

exotic animal farm and some beautiful country.

You can see Mt. Hood in the background.

We stopped at Maryhill Museum and had lunch and

walked around the grounds and saw some neat things.

The kids posing for a few pictures.

Ron, Kara, Aaron and I stopped my the Maryhill

Winery and did some wine tasting.  The place

was beautiful and impressive. They host lots

of events and concerts.  Willie Nelson was there

the week before.  Would have been fun to see

a fun concert.  We bought a bottle of wine and played

a game of bocce ball and got our butts kicked, but

it was still fun and we had a good time.



Sunday morning Daphne and Lili did a little church

service for us.  It was so cute and well thought out.

We even had communion  What a fun

camping trip.  The kids had a great time

playing with their cousins.   Of course

we had good food and great company!