TRAIL HOPPING

In my typical fashion, I abandoned laundry (but did the dishes!) and took the girls out. This time it was for location scouting, but I ended up just taking [a million] photos of my girls enjoying themselves on the trails.

Miss independent. In her own little big world.

Last Saturday the girls and I took and day trip to get the girls summer clothes (and of course  accessories!!). We picked up my mom and made it even more fun of an outing! Penelope chose dresses over shorts, and I am LOVING the choices we made!

She saw a “money.” By that I’m sure she meant a large bird. :)

Oh! The hand holding…

At trial number two we had a picnic! We started out at the picnic table, but the wind picked up and we polished lunch off in the back of the van.

We had a little shoot on the railroad tracks, and Penelope scored a rock on her way back to the car. Amelia did a face plant, and scraped her arms and hands pretty bad, so we cut our trip short. Well, we were 2+ hours into our outing, but only walked one of the three trails we intended to.

No doubt on the next sunny day we’ll finish those trails! I’m so grateful I can stay home with these beauties!!

SUNDAY HIKE

Sunday (before we tackled the shed), we went on a hike as a family.

No reason you can’t look good doing it, right?

Penelope was so excited when she discovered these. Zack told her they were for throwing…so, that was fun. At least no one was harmed.

Penelope was so interested in “all things” that her and I often ended up pretty far behind Daddy and A. Worth it though!

We stopped for a cracker / water break before we entered the forest portion of our walk. As you can see, Penelope brought Raggedy along in her “pack-pack.”

Miss A even enjoyed some crackers, even though I’m pretty sure there is milk in them.

Zack pulled some moss for me to show how thick it was. I had no idea it was only green right on the surface, or how deep the roots go! Pretty cool find!

Zack and his ladies on the way back to the car.

Our loot. Safe to say we raked it in. Later, as we went inside for the night, Penelope scurried to fit all of this into her little hands. I helped her out, and she immediately went to find them in the morning.

Family Stroll : : In Photos

[Serious photo overload!]


Just what we needed! Beautiful crisp air, noises of nature, lots of hand holding, and an array of autumn leaves! On our walk a deer jump out and ran (hopped, really) right out in front of us, so gorgeous! To fast for my trigger finger to capture, so I didn’t even try, I just enjoyed it. OH! and we found a turkey feather, which Penelope found to be gross and not the least bit interesting. :)
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