Pillar Falls

Emma loves Cheerios. If she goes missing for a while, you can bet your buttons she is in the kitchen ..having gotten herself another bowl of Cheerios. Munching away. She was outside trimming my roses with me and cleaning out the flower beds. Trying to reclaim my yard from the long winter. Emma went inside to go to the bathroom and never came back. I went in to check on her, and surprise surprise where did I find her..........

 these particular ones taste like cough syrup on a cheerio. YUM!

In other NEWS. Owen is MOBILE. He can and does go EVERYWHERE, army crawl style. He is LOVING his new freedom.

These were all taken within a 5 minute time frame.
For our weekend adventure we hiked down to Pillar Falls.

Okay, we TRIED to hike down to Pillar Falls. The trail(if you can call it that) was a mess. The whole bottom was flooded anyway so we couldn't get very far.

THis is what it's supposed to look like.

Yeah couldn't get down there at ALL, too much water.

I did suspect it would be that way, but I wanted to check out the trail for future hikes. 

Barry had run 15 miles that morning and was more ornery than usual, but we did our best and I think the kid's had quite the adventure.

 THen the trail ended...... in Water. We were not prepared to wade, so we turned around after exploring a bit.

 OWen loved being outside.  He was perfect and even feel alseep on the way back up.

 We gave Emmie and Barry and Owen a head start and the older kids and I crawled down a crevice and scrambled up a rock face to see if we could get a look at the falls.

 You could sortof see it, through the trees,

 Scary woman on the top.

 waking up from his nap.......

 Owen is EXCELLENT at Jenga, if you redefine the rules a bit.

 There had a princess ball at Pizza Pie Cafe, so the girls dressed up as Princesses, but when we got there there was at least 1000 people there and parking lot full, cars up and down the street, the line wrapping all around the parking lot. We decided to go to Sizzler instead. The kid's sat in one booth, us in another. It was almost like a date. :D

 Keeping my eye on James while doing his Math. He needs constant supervision to stay on task.

First bite of pumpkin pie. We made a couple of Pumpkin pies for President's day.

this picture is included because i like the color of my hair here. Purdy. :D (Mom stays in the picture, ...haha at least her hair.)