Yesterday the kids and I met our good friend Nevada and her son Gabriel at the park. We played on the play scape and took a nature walk. Jackson wanted to go on a walk to pick flowers. Nevada offered to take us all on a nature hike to pick flowers and look for turtles and frogs. The look on the kids faces was priceless. I don't know that they really understood what a hike was, but they knew they were going to go into the trees.
Lets' me honest, for all of you that know me well, I do a lot of active things with my kids, but hiking is not one of them. I thought we were going to go down this cleared little path looking here and there for frogs, but no... we were dodging branches, trying not to walk to close to pickers and "watching" for poison ivy!
All was well worth it~ the kids had a blast. Jackson loved picking flowers for me and "Uncle" Nevada. For some reason this is what he calls Nevada. Nevada doesn't correct him, but instead loves that he calls her this and hopes it sticks. Once we got to a clearing we found a small little stream that the kids threw rocks into and looked for frogs and turtles. It was really a beautiful little area. I'm thinking we may go back there next month to get our family pictures taken.
Jackson, Aubrin and Gabriel were tiptoeing trying to sneak up on dragonflies and were just being silly. It was such a fun morning! I left the park with all of the little treasures the kids found on their hike.
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