Holiday Weekend Adventure: LaPine State Park

Thank goodness for holiday weekends.  I really needed a break.
We went to central Oregon this weekend and stayed at LaPine State Park.  It's a really nice park, it's just unfortunately 4 hours away.  We had a camp site that backs right up to the Deschutes River.  So, we did quite a bit of hiking along the river on Saturday morning.

Why yes...that is Levi's robot grabber in the picture.  He insisted on having it while we hiked just in case "someone needed rescuing."  He calls it his "rescue grabber."

On Saturday afternoon we met up at Lava Butte with our friends, Mark and Mindy, who recently moved to Bend.  Levi really loved walking around in the 7,000 year old lava flow.  He has a pretty big obsession with volcanoes.

Love the view of Mt. Bachelor in the background of this photo.  Have I mentioned how much I really love central Oregon?  The smell of Ponderosa Pine gets me every time!

One of my favorite moments of the weekend was Levi making a "camp fire" and roasting his own marshmallows.

And of course he was very excited to help daddy build the real fire.  This was all that remained of the two marshmallows daddy roasted for him!

Overall a great weekend.  Levi's last day of school is Friday and I have 13 more...
Summer is almost here!