Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts

Friday, October 17, 2008

First Family Campout

Mahoney State Park in Ashland Nebraska is a great park with lots of kid friendly activities. They have horseback riding, mini golf, a giant indoor playground, water park, ice-skating rink and togogan run. Too bad that nothing was open!!!


One of the beautiful views from our hike.




Our awesome tent, it has three rooms. They've certainly come a long way since I was camping as a child, It only takes 10 minutes to set up.


We looked online and chose this great spot in Little Creek. It wasn't until the evening that we realized our true location...


We were seranaded by crickets, a coyote and an owl but these lovely sounds were drowned out by Interstate 80, a couple of helicopters and trains going past every 30 minutes (sounding their horns loudly) along a track on the other side of the wood!


Here we are packing for the hike.

little Kaeleigh waiting patiently for some breakfast. She has a cold nose...aawww

The kids are toasting marshmallows for our s'mores. It was a race to find firewood before the darkness came. We cooked foil dinners and tried to boil water for hot chocolate but didn't cover the pot and ended up foregoing the drinks


Kaeleigh and her handsome chauffeur


Kaitlin on the trail

Braden's GQ pose.



left...left...left...right...left...everywhere we go, people wanna know, who we are, so we tell them, we are mormons, mighty mighty mormons.



Monkey #1
Monkey #2


The observation tower was quite high so I stayed below with the baby. Kaitlin was a bit nervous because the tower swayed in the wind.


We had a great time and plan on making this an annual thing. Thanks for reading my incredibly long post. I hope you enjoyed it :)



Monday, June 23, 2008

The Robins Take Flight


This little cutie is one of three that left the nest and is now being feed by it's parents in our back yard. It's funny to watch it crashing around. We found it taking shelter from a storm by standing up against the bottom of our patio door. Good luck little fella!

Now we have a second nest in our tree housed by more robins!