Family Day at the river

Last Sunday, we took the kids up to Auburn to play by the river. We stopped at Venita Rhea's, our favorite breakfast place, on the way and then found a spot to park and hike down to the river. Sometimes we don't think ahead too well on these adventures and this was one of those times. We brought the stroller for Kate and had to carefully hike down a big hill with it to get down to the water. People watching probably thought we were crazy pushing a stroller down a hiking path, but Kate thought it was great fun. On the way back up, I carried Kate and Heidi rode in the stroller while John dragged it behind him like a sled since the wheels wouldn't even turn in the rocks. The kids had fun throwing rocks and casting their fishing poles. They just love to be outside and the weather was so beautiful. Heidi was quite adventuresome in the water. Good thing she was wearing her boots because she just wanted to stomp around in the water. She did fall down though and was not happy about getting wet. She solved the problem by taking off her clothes and just wearing her onesie and boots. Ben and John threw lots of rocks and Ben worked on learning to skip rocks. John also took Kate on a hike over to the waterfalls which made me very nervous. She liked it though! It was such a nice day to get some fresh air and enjoy God's beautiful creation.


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