Our First Family Hike!

The last weekend of February was the perfect weekend for a hike! Not too hot, not to cold! We headed to Holmes County State Park for our first hike. We packed a picnic lunch, toys to play with, a backpack for hauling kids and even the elmo potty seat! We don't pack light these days!!
We began our outdoor adventure on the playground...swings, slides, monkey bars...lots of fun!

The babies loved the "big hill" next to the playground...everything around our house is flat so I think they thought this was a mountain! They ran up and down the hill, kicked a soccer ball down the hill for daddy to chase, and even had a "stick sword fight" just like Captain Hook (we are in a big Peter Pan phase!)
The leaves were quite entertaining too...since we have very few trees in our yard we don't have leaves so they had soooo much fun looking at different shapes and sizes and Mahlon especially loved covering mommy in leaves...see his little face below!

Daddy got a big time workout chasing babies and sprinting back up the hill...carrying an extra 70 plus pounds is tough!!

We had a quiet picnic next to the lake, and then threw a few sticks and rocks into the water!

And then the hiking began! This was the very beginning when we had two happy hikers singing and talking...that lasted all of 2 minutes and then...


one went into the backpack...

and daddy carried the other! What a workout!!!
They loved looking into the creek at all of the tadpoles and bugs! I can remember loving the same thing when I was little!


Little man was saying "CHEESE!!!!" so cute!!
We had a great time on our first hike...Wesley is dying to take them to the mountains, but this was a great start...our little Mississippi mountain!