Reasons to be Excited for Spring (Northwest Style)!

It was suprisingly warm here today in Portland (and then it rained like crazy, but let's ignore that). I can't believe it's already spring, I feel like winter barely happened. Maybe that's because I had a newborn and my sense of time is all over the place! I'm actually happy winter is more or less over because now we can look foward to the greatness of spring.
A little list of my favorite springtime things:

1) Away with the coats!I hate having to feel like I'm wearing the same thing everyday with my winter coat.

2) Tulips- my favorite flower, which works out because we are only a couple of hours from the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival just north of Seattle.

Photo by Scott Lechner on www.tulipfestival.org

3) Hiking-In the Northwest we're gauranteed rain for at least another couple of months, so camping is out of the question for me until late summer,  but at least everything will be super green for hiking!

4) Travel- Once the weather improves everyone tends to take roadtrips. We'll be heading to two of our favorite places: Missoula and Seattle!