Mom's day at Turkey Run

What is quickly becoming a Mother's Day tradition for our family is to grab a quick lunch after church and head out to a park for some hiking and photo shooting.  This year's destination (after lunch at Steak 'n Shake) was Turkey Run.  This Mommy likes to shoot photos so be prepared....there's a lot of them.

Out on trail #3...the rugged one. :)  In my opinion, you can't go to Turkey Run and not hike trail 3.  It's why you go in the first place.  We've had a lot of rain recently so it was especially muddy and wet.

And we always go to the right to start the loop.  I think it's easier to hike up the creek bed, especially when it's wet and you get to go down more stairs than you go up.  So less of this type of view!

Some of the critters we encountered.

FYI - Dusty's not one of the critters. :)

After hiking trail 3, Aaron wanted to show us a place along the river that he had been at when he went with friends to the park last month.  He claimed it wasn't that far.  So we headed off on trail 4 and after what seemed like 947 steps and 4.5 miles we arrived at a sandy place along the river.  No one around and the kids had fun in the water and looking for rocks and fossils.

Dusty with his 2nd rock skipping attempt.  The first made an obnoxious "kerplunk" sound and skipped nowhere.  He claimed that was his "warm up".

Time to Play with Hay

From last week's playtime with Hayden. :)

Spring Photos

Finally....several warm days! :)  We took full advantage of the warm weather by heading out to the art museum grounds to grab some photos.

Spring Kindergarten Program

Tonight was Rachel's kindergarten program.  The kids were cute while singing and playing instruments.  Rachel wore a cute little dress and I fixed her hair with a headband, sprayed some hairspray and off we went.  I dropped her off at her class and went to the gym.  When she marched in her hair was a complete wreck!  She had taken off the headband and put it back on.  This was the result.

And Isaac, he pulled out all the stops!  Fancy :)

Camera Randomness

Time for your favorite type of post.....random shots from my camera.  Translation:  nothing much going on here.

Rachel's soccer photo

Dusty feeling the power after mowing the lawn for the 1st time this spring.   I think the power comes from his socks!

Daniel moving the goods at the Awana store

Lilac bush in the backyard

Easter Shots

Too tired to be descriptive about the photos.  You get the idea. :)  Great day!

We've got eggs!

Easter Eggs

Deviled Eggs

and Jello Eggs!