climbing a mountain

We told Finn that we were going to climb a mountain. It's actually a Spencer's Butte (not technically a mountain), but who cares? :)

Ready for an adventure!

We each had a kid strapped to us.

My kid was a little sleepy.

Kenton's kid was ready for action! He walked for a small stretch of the trail until he tripped on a rock & scraped his knee. :\ But he still had a good attitude & talked to everyone we ran into on the trail (telling them all about going to the "music theater" - movie theater).

We made it to the top - sweaty, out of breath & hungry. This squirrel was SO brave & came right up to us. In fact, he took a bite of Finn's sandwich while Finn was holding it! We both had looked away for a moment & turned around to see Finn feeding the squirrel - eeek! :P We had to shoo him away.

At the top

Dad with his boys

Mama with her boys

Beautiful view

Quick poopy diaper change before heading back down. :\

In the cover of green leaves - such pretty lighting.

Almost everyone who we passed seemed surprised to see such a little baby on the trail. He was a great little hiker & hardly made a peep the whole way up & down.

We were pretty warn out but it felt great to hike. It's only going to get harder while the kids keep getting bigger...until they're big enough to hike on their own, I suppose. The second Kenton let go of Finn's hand at the bottom, he fell & scraped his other knee. :( Bummer. But he fell asleep on the way home & took a nice long nap - Mama napped too.

We woke up & tried to enjoy the sprinkler & kiddie pool on this crazy 90+ degree day. Kenton & Finn had a great battle with the hose & squirt guns. Ahhh...gotta love Summer time!