Get up and Get out

"I'm too sexy for this pack"

Striding it out

Just a little morning rock climbing

Yep I'm a model :)

Happy to be sitting after a challenging hike

Every little boy needs do this with their dad during the summer! So cute! Stocky was in little boy heaven!

Relaxing playtime for the kids. I love how they just kind-of separated and starting doing their own thing in the dirt :)

Handsome husband and strong baby carrier :)

The lake!

What they did when I said to pose :) Liv posed with her stick and Annabelle threw up her arms. Haha

Sliding down dirt hills and loving every second!

Uncle Josh

Aunt Robyn

Parents and lovers :)

Hmmmmm...in hindsight...why was I allowing him to eat something with those dirty hands?!

Liv on the way down--still plenty of energy to spare :)

We woke up the girls bright and early to go for a hike up at Brighton. It was such a great little hike for the kids! Pretty challenging for them to feel like they really accomplished something, but not too challenging where they complained a lot. They all did great and especially loved the parts where they got to climb up the rocks! Josh was a trooper with Stocky on his back--I do believe this is the last hike Stockton will ever be photographed in the backpack :)

Activities like this remind me of when I was young and how much we loved going on little hikes and playing in the water in dirt. It makes me so happy to see children out hiking and experiencing nature. They are away from the city, getting dirty, seeing something they've never seen, and allowing their imaginations to guide their play with nothing but mother nature to use as "toys." :) Josh and I both talked about how we need to make an effort to do this much more with our kids in the summertime.

When we got back to the car, we had a lunch packed for each of the kids that they devoured on the car ride home :) We returned Liv back to her house ready for bed at 1:00 in the afternoon :) What a great time for the girls--they had a blast during their time together. And as always, we loved having Liv in our home!