We went to an "Adult Only" dinner one night with excellent company and fantastic food. I fully enjoyed being out on a "Date" with my sweetie! By the way, Pistachio Gelato is AMAZING!
We were then lucky enough to spend the weekend camping with our "Old School" chums and besides a few mosquito bites that swelled up Eva's eye- we had a fun time cooking over the fire, making even more smores, watching the 500 squirrels squabble for our crumbs,
sleeping in a vintage tent that despite all odds survived the rain storm, and taking hikes that opened up to magnificent views.
We totally had a moose cross the trail in front of us! (killing me that I didn't get a picture)Liv's favorite part was all the wildflowers. She would have taken the entire mountain home with her. I did convince her that we should just take some snapshots of her favorites to print because they would last much longer!
When I was a little girl I had a "Flower Journal" that I took on all our family backpacking adventures. Everyone, even my brothers, would help me to find a new blossom that I hadn't clipped and taped onto my pages so that I could go home and find out what it was called. I wish I still had that book... but I think it is something that Liv would like to start doing on our next mountain adventure. I found out this week that all three of my girls are great little hikers! This is wonderful because I have lots of trails that I want to take them on!!If all that wasn't enough, we then hit up the City of Fun Carnival (long story, but we missed the Strawberry Days Event) and here are the highlights of the twinkling light filled eyes and brimming smiles of our children.
Eva was so excited to go on the Farris Wheel- declaring more than once "I am big enough!"
A busy week, but a pretty awesome one to say the least!
6 comments:
I hope you don't mind that I'm stealing some of your pictures. I want your camera!
I can't believe Eva is old enough (and brave enough) to get on that big ferris wheel. That's a huge deal!
Looks like you had a great week. I'm going to have to be more proactive in keeping my kids entertained this summer. A new baby is not a good excuse in their eyes.
I just remembered that you didn't even have your fancy dancy camera on the campout. You took those shots with the kind of camera I had. So I should probably say that I need your skillz not your camera.
I LOVED that camping spot. It will be our secret and we will use it every year. The view from the other side of that hill was so breathtaking!!
I love the pic of Eva on the ferris wheel! SO cute. :)
What fun! I LOVE those pictures of the flowers, and I think that making a flower journal is a great idea--I wish you could find the one you made as a child! That would be awesome!
To be honest, I had know idea you'all are interested in camping!! How great that you had a good time (minus the mosquito bites!)
So fun!! I love that you guys went camping. We have yet to do that this summer.
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