Butte Hike

We took advantage of a beautiful Saturday morning to hike the Butte. It was Charly's first hike and she did great! The bugs were awful! There were parts that we ran through just to get past the bugs, but we had a good time.


Charly was amazed at how tall the trees were.
She would get behind and run as fast as she could to catch up with the bigger kids.

Caitlyn loved this big rock on the side of the trail.

Stopped at the lookout...
Two little hiker men.....

...and a hiker princess!!

Caitlyn, Mom, and Emmy

The girls..................
David and Caitlyn

Yummy trail mix!

Proof that David was there ;)

Emmy just wore herself out with all that walking.

Dawson loved being outside and loved being a "Hikerman" even more.

Austin carefully removing the unwanted elements from his trail mix.

A girl and her Daddy....

All in all it was a great day. We didn't make it to the top since Charly couldn't handle the boulder climbing and having Emmy in the carrier threw off my center of gravity. But the boys have vowed to return and try again another day. So maybe there will be another adventure at the Butte this summer!

A warm afternoon in the sprinkler

It was very warm afternoon one day and the kids wanted to play in the sprinkler. (All except Austin who stayed inside to get some quiet time.) They tried really hard to spin in circles through the water spray. I caught them in different parts of their spin which is why some of the pictures are of weird positions.

My beautiful Charly bug...


Charly didn't want to run through the water so she would run around the sprinkler.

Caitlyn did pretty good.

Dawson was pretty good at getting all the way around.

She finally ran through a couple of times.