Kids and hike

Here are just a few random pictures of what we had done this summer.

An awsome fort that the kids made with almost all of our blankets. They had fun making it but cleaning it up was not so much fun

JT loves the water and can always find things and balance in them for a boat

Jenna with our two new "kids"

Lindee being cute!

Luke earned his Bear this summer. Ryan is the cubmaster and I am on the committee over Ryan so it has been lots of fun to both be in Scouts with Luke. At the beginning of summer we have a list of things that we want to do with the kids, by the end of the summer we rush to get the last few things in. So every weekend in August we have done something fun. The first thing we did was go on a hike. Now it wasn't just a little hike! It was a 7 mile hike. Half of it was up a mountain and the other half was down the mountain. We hiked into a lake and it was beautiful. We had a great time and the kids did great. Even Lindee did a good job but declared after the hike that she did not want to go hiking again for a long time!

Resting on the trail

I think we were only a fourth of the way of one of the mountains. We were tired especially JT.

On the side of the mountain resting.

Here the kids are resting by a rock. We were about half way at that point.

This was usually my view. The 3 older kids would be way up ahead while, me, Ryan, and Lindee followed.

Here we are resting on a log that had fallen over the trail.

When we finally reached the lake after 4 hours we all stripped down into our underwear and went swimming. We had our own private lake until about 10 minutes after we put our clothes back. Then someone joined us. Here is Luke enjoying the water.

Posing by the lake. It had a great view.

Here is a view on the way back from the lake.

We made it. It took us 4 hours to get up to the lake and 3 hours to get down. We were only planning on it taking us 5 hours round trip. But we made it and the older kids already want to go again. Posing by the front of the trail.