Hiking

Our family loves to go on day trips.  One of our favorite things to do is hiking.  Last week Ben took a day off work and we headed up to Mt. Rose.  We went to a place we had never been before and it was awesome.  We had so much fun and the kids did great!

We couldn't do anything else until Kyle got to throw rocks in the river.  This is one of his favorite things to do.  I honestly think he could do it all day long if we let him.  Makayla was climbing around and exploring things around us.  She found a really flat rock.  She got it wet and then put leaves all over it.  She was making a wallet.

Next it was picnic time.  We found a beautiful spot in the middle of the trees and spread our blanket down.  We had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chips, grapes, strawberries, cheese and Rootbeer.  Then we topped it all of with some muddy buddies.  Yummy!!!

Finally after rock throwing, exploring, more rock throwing, our picnic, rock throwing, pictures and of course more rock throwing it was time for the hike.

Oh yeah, before we could officially start the hike Makayla needed to strike a pose.

There were tons of fallen trees that we could climb and explore on.  There was one especially skinny tree that Ben bet me $100 to climb across it.  Now as some of you know I was in gymnastics when I was younger so this was not a big deal.  As I started to climb Makayla burst out in tears.  She was so scared that I would fall into the water.  As much as I wanted my $100 I couldn't make my little girl cry while doing it.  Next time for sure!!! 

The best part of our hike was that we were in no hurry.  We let the kids climb rocks and of course Kyle got to throw more rocks in the river and just take our time and explore everything.  When we were done it was a short walk back because we didn't get very far.  Over all it was a perfect day with our family.