A New Place to Hike

On Saturday we headed up to Estes Park, but as we got outside of Boulder, the boys just weren't excited about the drive to get up there. With the help of my handy dandy iPhone, we found a place in Lyons called Button Rock Reserve and walked in there for awhile. We were out of practice and therefore quite unprepared to do any real hiking, but we hope to go back and trek back to the main reservoir sometime soon.

That evening we had out first bonfire of the year and Asher roasted his first marshmallow(or rubbed it around in the ashes anyway).

Asher's Own Style

Temper tantrum

Samuel put on a good show on the way out of school today. I'm such a
good mom, I just took a picture. ;-)

My Little Partners in Crime.

Happy Mother's Day!

I have to admit that I didn't take full advantage of the perfect weather this Mother's Day. After church and lunch, I took a long nap while Jeremiah and the boys played at the park. This evening we went for a walk on the path by our house and enjoyed the end of the day.

Breathe in deeply, can you smell the lilacs? The air is fragrant with them right now, its wonderful.

Time to head home.

Sleeping Baby

Asher fell asleep on a beanbag chair this afternoon and I had fun snapping some pictures while my "baby" slept.

An Eventful Walk - Warning: Long

Since Jeremiah is gone for the day rocket-ing and it is such a nice day, the boys and I decided to go for a walk at one of our favorite spots, Josh's Pond. It got interesting about 30 seconds after we got there. Samuel took off down the path running almost literally into a goose who I suspect had a nest nearby and was not happy to see us. She chose Samuel as her victim and chased him, mouth open and hissing, scaring the poo out of him. After we ate lunch, we continued our walk only to have Isaac and Spencer almost immediately have a traumatic experience of coming face to face with a snake. Or rather foot to face as Isaac stepped on it before he saw it. Isaac and Spencer were both sobbing, Spencer because he was scared of the snake, Isaac because he felt badly for having stepped on it(I think he was a little scared too). For some odd reason, we decided to press on and about 15 minutes later Samuel fell right onto a cactus. I picked the thorns out of his hand and then we had to disrobe him in order to sufficiently get the thorns out of his leg and pants. We did leave shortly thereafter. I didn't see too many people around, but if there were, they certainly got a good show.