Happy Trails!

 One of our neighbors told us about an awesome trail about 5 minutes from our house.

We have been wanting to take the kids there, but for some reason, it's taken us a few weeks to get our act together.  Well, this weekend it happened!  It was perfect weather, cool in the mornings, so we packed up our wagon and a picnic lunch and headed out to the trail.

Colin was hoping to see monkeys, turtles and moose.  Maggie wanted to see birds.

It was about a 4.5 mile (round trip), paved trail with lots of other families and pets walking by.

Every couple of minutes there seemed to be something that was really cool, like a waterfall, trickling stream, or an old rusty bridge.  The kids loved riding in the wagon and sipping on their lemonades.

 My boys enjoying a  beautiful morning

 The kiddos and I (too bad Mags couldn't stop sucking her thumb or rubbing her eyelashes for the picture!)

 Not far down the trail was a really shallow stream, and after Colin poked at a few of the bugs with a stick, we were brave enough to walk around in the water.

It was cold, but lots of fun!

Walking in the stream

 Love this cutie pie!

 Colin and Maggie found this huge rock.

This huge rock was perfect for....silly faces!

These kids crack me up!

The kids loved when Brian would RUN down the hills with them in the wagon.

I got left behind, but had lots of fun watching them laugh so hard.

Plus, there were lots of families walking their dogs. And the kids wanted to pet each and every one of them...

One of our last stops was this beautiful waterfall (you can kindof see it in the background of the picture).

There was a pretty big drop off right in front of where Brian is sitting.

The kids had fun throwing rocks as far as they could...trying to hit the waterfall.

We spent just under 2 hours walking along the trail (with many stops), and then had a picnic lunch by our car before we headed home.  Colin and Maggie wouldn't stop talking about how much fun it was, even if we didn't see any monkeys...

:)