Homestead Fun

My kids all time favorite place to go... the Whiting Homestead, where a kid can be a kid. Growing up, we spent a lot of time there. Some of my best memories were made there. Now my kids enjoy it, maybe more fully than I did. They seem to specialize in wild life, I stop at the water snakes...

Here's my girls- day 1- how can you tell??? They're CLEAN.

They love to hike the mountain.

Even "H" hiked it all by herself this year. I couldn't believe it. She made it all the way, and any time Steve or I would say hold my hand, she would say "No no, I can do this". She had so much determination, it was pretty cool to see.

Here she is at the top, clearly proud of herself.
Even Jasmine loves it. She can always find someone to play fetch with her. She loved playing fetch in the lake.Steve's family came up for a little reunion and we hiked the mountain again and picked wild flowers on the way back. The girls had fun making their own bouquets. That's one of my favorite memories as a child... picking flowers for my mom.

Here's some of Steve's family after our hike...which was super fun...Vikki and I ran down the mountain like we were crazy. We had to stop a couple times because we were laughing so hard.

Here's little man, being like his big man and catching weird things.

Frog...

Crawdad...
Like father, like son... they would catch them with their bare hands!

Horny Toad!!! One of the cousins even caught a water snake and they played with it all day. What fun!

Here's what they do when it's raining outside.

(There is no TV- it's awesome!)

Picking "Sugar Flowers" with "Sugar Daddy" :)One week is never enough...I guess we'll have to go back up there. Darn.