Our fall hike

This weekend we had fun doing lots of different things, a kind of hodgepodge eventful weekend.  Saturday we were invited over to Ellie, Lucy and Lily's house for a play date.  We have not seen these adorable girls in a while, so it was so nice catching up with them.  Their mom, Katie, went back to work full time in April, and it was so nice to see all of her kids adjusting so well.  Ellie is 4, one day younger than my girls, and Lucy and Lily are 2 & 1/2 year old twins. My highlight of the day -  playing the memory game with Lucy!

Sunday after Sunday School we decided to go on a hike at Lebanon Hills Park.  The weather was a bit cool, at about 45 degrees, but we all dressed warm and headed out.  Katie and Allie were so excited to walk, running the first leg of our journey.  We were able to stop along the way and enjoy the fall day and Katie even found a huge mud puddle where she managed to get one of her boots stuck in the mud. 

About 30 minutes into our journey we had to make a choice if we were going to turn around and head back or follow the trail around the lake.  Being that Todd and I had never been on this hike around Jensen Lake before we decided to continue on the trail. It couldn't be that much farther back to our car right?  Well we made the wrong choice, and as Todd would describe it the hike from he_ _, we found out that at that point in our journey we weren't even a 1/4 of the way around the lake.  I would have to say that Katie and Allie did remarkably well, walking over a mile on their own , but there came a point in time where we had to carry them.  We ended up carrying them over a mile up and down many hills.  We later found out that we hiked about 2 & 1/2 miles.  I think we learned our lesson to always check the map before we start!  Todd and I were pretty exhausted Sunday night!