Hiking

We went for a hike over the Thanksgiving weekend. We actually ended up hiking over a couple of miles and the kids did amazingly well walking by themselves. We don't really go that far anymore, but Grandpa Paul was forging ahead and the rest of us were just trying to drag the kids along and keep up!

The kids had their walking sticks and were whacking every bush or tree in sight. At one point Paul told Samuel he could only hit each bush once because all of his whacking was just slowing us down too much.

Bella is our little independant soul. She doesn't want you to help her do anything and while I think this is great, it can be a little annoying at times. Her hat was bugging her and she kept taking it off and then stopping and sitting down to fix it. She wouldn't let any of us touch it and if we did she would yank it away and scream at us. So we had several stops for her to fix the hat and eat her peanuts.

Poor big buddy was just having too much fun!

Yes we were taking the little ones on some difficult terrain.

It was really quite cold and so despite the fact that I looked quite silly in the jazz stocking hat, I was thankful it was in the trunk of the car!