I had a panic attack last weekend when I realized that school starts NEXT week!! Where did our summer go? We have not had near enough structured play days. And when I say structured I mean; I want picnics, four wheeler and horse rides and excursions to the dunes. We haven't done any of those things yet, so now we cram!! There's always got to be one last swimming activity, one last four wheeler ride and at least one trip to the dunes before we are doomed to bedtimes and schedules for another nine months!
So when my friend wanted us to join in a water day, we jumped at the chance. To make it even better, it was a backyard relax party. No crowded pools, and no paying to swim. Just a bunch of kids, a canal and a blowup water slide. It was especially fantastic because the babies did a lot of this!
Saturday afternoon we decided to take the kids on a four wheeler ride to Packsaddle Lake. At the last minute Grandma and Grandpa Crapo joined us to make it that much funner. This is truly the only activity that we can ALL enjoy at the moment. Reason being; Hagen LOVES the four wheeler and brings me my shoes and tuggs at my finger multiple times a day to take him for a ride. Basically any other activity involves me chasing him all over the place and him throwing a fit or two. The four wheeler is the only place we can both thoroughly enjoy!
It was a lovely ride, and an easy trail until the last 1/4 mile where it was straight downhill with lots of rocks but we made it. Grandpa was pretty nervous about how we were going to get out, but then again he worries a lot. The Lake was beautiful and the water was pretty warm, we noticed a rope swing some college kids play on and we are hoping to back another time to try that out.
After we washed up in the lake and snapped a few pictures, Grandpa was antsy to get up that hill. He was afraid some of us were going to have to walk, but we made it and it didn't seem as bad going out as coming in.
Hagen zonked out on our way back and Grandma and Kallie wanted to go eat. I had to take a picture of Grandma and show her how dirty she was because she didn't believe me that we were all way too dirty to go anywhere! She was a little shocked when she saw herself, so we just ended the evening with homemade fries at their house!
2 comments:
That looks like a lot of fun! I love Patty's face at the end. LOl! you know your having fun when your face is completely covered in dirt.
Love your cougar pride post! So true! Too many people are teaching their kids to "run away" from something because they think the grass is "greener" somewhere else. I too agree that as parents we have to teach our kids to work hard and to do their best. Every school has its own set of problems. That is part of life...why teach your kids to run away from that...learn to enjoy what they have and work hard! I love where we live too! That is why we moved back to Egin to live in a great community that we both grew up in! Thanks for the great post!
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