Weekend hiking

We went hiking twice this holiday weekend and both were super fun. Saturday we headed out to Rattlesnake Ledge and played at the lake for awhile and then hiked partway up the trail. The kids spent the whole time climbing the huge boulders and naming them. We had a couple friends along and it was lovely.

The kids go past one of our local parks every day on teh bus and they've been dying to check it out for months. We finally got out to it after church on Sunday and it turned out to be a really fun park for all of them.

Chloe decided Sunday was the day she needed to have her hair done for the first time. Someday I imagine her hair will start growing for real, but at this point it's still all wispy. But it's finally got some length in the back and so she got a twinner set of pigtails to Genevieve and it was the cutest thing.

Yesterday for Memorial Day we had a jam packed day. We started out the day with a church pancake breakfast at a local park. Then we headed out to Twin Falls, which is a 2.5-mile hike that the kids completely rocked. We pulled out all our hiking poles and they loved having their own. We finished the day off with dinner at our cousin's house. It's been a long time coming that we could spend an entire day out and come home with happy kids. We don't have any diapers to deal with or naps and this newest family life phase is turning out to be really delightful. There's a million more places we can check out around here, so our weekends are looking good for the forseeable future.