Evan and Hannah's Wedding

Matt and had the honor of being invited to celebrate Evan and Hannah's wedding in Oregon and it was a beautiful weekend! It was the first trip we had taken alone since we went to the Florida Keys a few years ago and it was nice to get away. My whole immediate family was there so we didn't get a ton of alone time, but we did have our own Airbnb and got to have breakfast together each day. We got there on a Thursday and the rehearsal dinner was that night.


Friday was our free day and me, Matt, Dad, Janet, Jennifer and Allison drove around to sightsee and did a few short hikes. We drove across the Washington state line to have lunch too.




Everyone was pretty tired that night, but me, Matt, Jennifer and Allison went to a wine bar for a couple of hours at the hotel where they were staying and watched a musician 

We wanted to do a hike that day that we did not have time for, so me, Matt and Allison left about 730 Saturday morning to do the 2 1/2 mile hike up to Multnomah Falls. Those switchbacks were steep! And that would've been pretty challenging for some of our group the day before, so I'm glad that we waited, but the views are worth it!



The wedding was that night and it was beautiful. I was so glad we were able to be there to support them and get the weekend with the family





The girls were at our house with Yaya and had a great weekend. I heard it was pretty low-key, but they did some shopping, some cooking, yaya got to watch riding, Katie went to a birthday party and they had lots of time to visit and hang out together 



We were so thankful for her to be here with them and all the animals and to get them around everywhere they needed to be. It's always so much easier to be gone when we know they are happy!



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