its been a lovely summer, I’ve discovered my love for berry picking…
we did some awesome hiking, including a 20 mile hike (in one long 14 hour day) in the Columbia River Gorge, which was the hardest physical thing I have ever done, even compared to birthing Rayna which is mainly because I did not fully birth Rayna in the true~est sense given my c~section/hospital experience…i am at peace with my birth and realize the way the system in America is…I started to watch the Business of Being Born and stopped it was intense, I’ll finish it one day…I am not even sure I want to have another child, it has been an intense journey for me especially after meeting my soul mate and blending us three together that is quite a journey…marc and I had 2 weeks to ourselves that was really cool…we had great fun as a childless couple, we never experienced that to the extent we did these two weeks…we chilled out, and thouroughly enjoyed ourselves.
now we are back to being parents and I have a child licking my arm and cant blog anymore…
stole a few quiet moments:
we had 3 bear sightings one was a mama bear with one cub, another really scared me…we were on our way down from our hike and i look across a bridge from us to see a big (in my opinion) black bear, I thought he was going to come across the bridge and I got a little panicky and i said Oh my god marc what do we do and he said, watch it and take a picture 
it ended up going under the bridge …last summer I saw about 13 bears between Mt Shasta, Sequoia and Yosemite and I didnt get scared like I did this time, I was more scared on a solo hike I did of the prospect of seeing one than I was actually seeing them…hmm.
