Our Girls

Our Girls

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Winter Outing

 

We were going a bit crazy in the house today, thankfully we had some sunshine to go out and enjoy a winter hike at Riverside State Park.  The river was rolling!  We even went out on the swinging bridge at the Bowl and Pitcher, was a bit eerie to feel it moving under you with the current.  Thankfully, we didn’t stay on the bridge too long! 

We had a great time enjoying the trails, and of course had to do some off-road hiking too.  The kids were eager to explore a little!  I think the hit of the trip might have been the patch of black ice we found that the kids were sliding down.  Was great til Elaina (why is it always Elaina?) fell and hit her nose (why is it always her face) on the ice.  That pretty much ended the ice-sliding!  There was no blood, so she toughed it up pretty quick!

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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Fall Leaf Festival 2010

WOW!  It has been a long time since we posted any photos on the blog, sorry!

We spent an absolutely beautiful fall day at Finch Arboretum enjoying the outdoors.  The girls really look forward to the leaf festival, and this year there was even a leaf pile!  YEA!  They played in the gigantic pile of leaves, climbed trees, scaled rocks, and explored the park for hours!  Such fun!

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We realized it had been a really long time since we had a picture of just Mom & Dad together, so each of the kids took a photo of us today.  With a little editing, we were not so well centered :) they look pretty good!

 

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Monday, July 19, 2010

Another Lovely Day at Larson Beach

It just doesn’t get much better than this: Fun, Sun, family, boating, swimming and a birthday celebration!

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Our first Geo Caching Hunt

The girls have been wanting to try geo caching, and we finally got Justin’s GPS and had a fun family adventure.  We went to one of our favorite local places, Riverside State Park and had a nice little walk looking for treasures.  It took us a few tries to be successful, but we did eventually find one! 

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We had to take a little break from all the fun to play in the river for a little bit!

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