Staircase at Lake Cushman....

WOW!!! The last time I went to the staircase it was almost 10 years ago. This is a really beautiful place!

We knew the weather was going to be gorgeous, and we knew we were getting Aurora this weekend, so we wanted to do something fun with the whole family outdoors. We've been brainstorming over the last couple of days. And we came up with a hike at the Staircase. And it head been about 10 years since I was last here, I went camping with my brother and my kids a few other friends.

Jeromy did go to the Men's Breakfast early this morning with Kent at our church. It's once a month. While the guys were gone, us girls packed a lunch of chicken sandwiches, chips, nu-go bars, water and chocolate pudding.

Here's the kids, with their shades ready to load up in the car to head to the Staircase...

I love waterfalls! I love rainbows more, but waterfalls are right up there!

Video of the cool water fall....

Looks like some other people had the same idea.... not too many tho....There were so many cool picture spots, I don't know how many times I said "WAIT! I gotta take a picture! Hold still!" This place really brought out the "little girl" in Jade. She kept running off the path and climbing everything. She said that nature was calling her to climb. And there's Aurora not far behind her!

There she goes climbing again...

Jade wanted to go across this log. She planned on walking across it, but it was so slippery she had to crawl across.

Here she made it to the other side telling her brother to come across...

There goes Kent...Hey- there's a big foot sighting....

We walked across this big bridge and the rushing water below was beautiful and clear...

Jeromy snapped a picture of all 5 of us, but he didn't realize that the camera was putting a shadow on his face....

After crossing the bridge there was a little path we followed. Now we are really hiking!

These trees were really weird looking, it was liking walking into another world!

There were cool little bridges to cross over along this trail...

Me and my baby....

Along the trail, they spotted a cave. Jade had to go explore...

Turns out the cave just went about 5 feet in, then it was just wall... kinda cool tho...

Jade leaving her mark for all of nature to see....

We are loving the nature (as long as I don't get dirty!)....Remember how I said Jeromy went to the men's breakfast early this morning, well, he's mentioned it to one of the guys there- Eric- that we were going to the staircase... well, on our way back from our trail, we saw Eric and his family headed in our direction! I couldn't believe we saw them. There could have been so many trails that we could have taken and missed each other! Amazing! Here's Eric, Deanna and their 2 boys!Here's Deanna and I.... she goes to the women's bible study I go to on Thursdays. Jade watches her boys along with some other kids there!

They took a picture of our family....Here's some cheese for ya.... us kissing by the waterfall, don't worry there's no video of that!All in all, we calculated we walked about 4 miles and it was awesome. I love that we were outside, all together, being active.... and it was free- priceless! These were the views of the drive out, the sun was just starting to set...Come on, are these beautiful or what???

Guess who fell alseep on the ride home? My sweet-little-cool-shades-wearin'-son Kenton...Ok, it actually took me 2 days to get that blog going. I even had to have an intervention with my mom to help me clean out some old blogs to make room for the new ones. So all that fun nature stuff was saturday, yesterday.

So sunday, today, we headed to church, with Aurora!! Afterwards, she wanted Beriah to come over for a while to play. They are so cute together!

Another gorgeous day people!!!The girls needed to make some kind of dessert for Beriah's Awana's class tonight. And she wanted to make... are you ready for this?

WORMS IN DIRT!First the girls had to dump out the chocolate pudding into the trays- dirt ya know! Then they crumbled oreo cookies to make more dirt! Then in go the worms, it really did look disgusting!Ok, I gues I should wrap this up before I blow up my computer! Enjoy the pictures, but more importantly I hope you got out there and enjoyed the weekend and thanked God for this beatiful weather we've been having!