Tuesday, July 05, 2016

Back to Nature

Just a few weeks ago we decided to start doing one of our favorite family activities again; hiking!

Although, there aren't very many true hiking areas in Topeka, we found a kid friendly place to do a little nature walk on afternoon.

Theres a cute little pond and trails around Clarion Woods, so we went there to check it out.

It was the perfect amount of "hiking" for John & Ellie, especially since it was hot out. Grace was a little champ and slept the whole time in the wrap that I wore. 

It made me miss Germany a lot, actually. Germany is just gorgeous and has forests everywhere, so there's never a shortage of where to go to have a little fun family adventure. Clarion Woods will do though ;)


yes, okay, i did have to ASK them to hold hands lol





so sweet :) 


John loved finding rolly pollie's 




John and Ellie refused to wear tennis shoes. Ellie was wishing she would have
when she saw how muddy everything was!






nice sized deer tracks!

After taking this photo, we saw one prance through the trees about 15 feet away. Pretty fun!


 I tried desperately to get Ellie and John to hug underneath this little canopy of leaves, but she wasn't having it. Leave it to John to strike a silly post for me though :)

This girl is OBSESSED with flowers. I'm pretty sure she stopped to smell
every wildflower she could get close enough to that didn't have any
bugs present on the petals ;)















this is about as face on to the camera as she got 



hydration break! 

Daddy put flowers in Ellie's hair :) she loved it!


me and the three littles :)






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