Climbing and Swim

We love going on the Galligator Trail and the kids love to ride their bikes on it and at the end is a huge rock you can climb on. We went a couple of weeks ago and it was a hit as always!

 I also was brave and took the kids swimming by myself. Honestly, I think this is a first. It helps that Makenna is such a good swimmer and you put Chase in a life jacket and he does his thing, which leaves Caleb and I. We ventured to the Bogert Pool and had a great afternoon until it started thundering/lightning and the pool closed.

 All 3 of the kids were in swim for June and part of July. Makenna is a fish and could stay at swim lessons all day. Chase was so much braver this time and made some huge improvements. He's keeping his face in the water longer and getting better at his arm strokes. This was Caleb's first time and he was so excited-the first time. The second day he refused to get in, I couldn't even get him to put on his swim suit(even after bribing him!) The third time he got in and had a moment of tears but did his whole lesson. Afterwards we made a trip to the dollar store for him. The next time Steve was able to come and watch and the kids loved that! For the last lesson Caleb made sure that prizes were coming before he got in the water. He did it so I had to take him again to the dollar store. Needless to say he was glad when swim lessons were over!
I'm so proud of them all and their accomplishment!

 

4 of July

The 4 of July was pretty low key around here. The day before Caleb, Makenna and I had dipped ice cream sandwiches in chocolate and and put sprinkles on them to make them all festive. As you can tell Caleb loved licking the bowl afterwards!

 For the holiday we went and did the Drinking Horse hike. It was a perfect, not too hard hike with a fun "cabin" at the end.

 That evening we had BBQ and some fireworks and stayed up way too late watching all the fireworks around us.

 

Fairy Lake

We tried to come to Fairy Lake last year on Memorial Day but the road was still closed so we hiked the road and when we got to the trail head we were ready to turn back. So this year we waited and went to Fairy Lake last week. It was beautiful and the boys loved stopping every ten steps to throw in rocks/sticks. It was even kind of chilly and their were still patches of snow.

Visitors

Some of our favorite people came to visit in June! We loved having the Runhaars come and spend time with us. I had all of these outdoor adventures planned and it rained every day they were here except the last day! We still had a great time and just changed activities. We played lots of games. Its more fun now that the kids are getting older and can play more games.

 A little bowling one afternoon...

 We went to our first roller derby.

 Some pizza at Audrey's Pizza.

 One morning we went to the Robotics museum and the boys loved the robot room and seeing C3P0.

 Swimming at the Hot Springs. It was pretty fun in the rain!

 And our only sunny day we went and hiked the M. It was beautiful! Afterwards we had lunch at the Dinosaur Park.

We sure love the Runhaars!