Hiking!!! (Otherwise known as Kirsten's new favorite thing)

I love hiking!
As long as the hikes aren't too long or too steep, or seem designed to make me ultra-aware of how out-of-shape I really am. :) Short, easy, beautiful hikes are my kind of hikes!

Stephen and our good friend Chance took Kirsten on a hike a few weeks ago. I didn't go on this one (I was at home with baby Natalie), but Kirsten had an awesome time! Don't even think about mentioning the word "hiking" around her or she thinks she's going to go hiking now and she'll run around yelling, "Hiking, hiking!"

Check out those cool rocks!

We bought our baby backpack when Kirsten was one year old and we took our trip to the gorgeous Olympic peninsula. She wasn't even walking yet at that time, just crawling! When she was one year old she loved being in the backpack, feeling the motion and looking around at everything. That was an awesome trip!

Kirsten still fits in the baby backpack, and she still enjoyed riding in it!
They met some strange Washington wilderness creatures on their hike. . . like this adorable fuzzy little guy! I guess Kirsten thought it was a "bee" and she was a little scared of it. (She stepped on a bee while she was in California. . . so most bugs are "bees" to her now).

And that is a seriously huge disgusting slug! Holy cow!

Kirsten was SO excited to be hiking with the boys!

She rode in the backpack part of the time. . .

And climbed around for the rest of the time. She was in hog heaven, with all those logs and rocks to climb all over!

I know we're incredibly lucky to live in such a beautiful place, with more hikes than we could ever complete! We need to take advantage of it more often!

So I want to know. . . Where is your favorite place to go hiking?