A New Year's Hike

 The past few years we have spent New Years Day playing in the snow with our friends, the Wagners.  Unfortunately, this year there wasn't really any snow to be found so we opted for a hike.  Just before Christmas the Wagners moved into a new house with a perfect location for straight out into one of our favorite recreation areas, Peavy Arboretum.  Bekah made a map of where were headed for Allison, in case we got lost.  The girls were really good about keeping up with the Daddies to make sure they didn't get lost!

 We hiked up to the lake and the girls enjoyed a snack and throwing rocks into the water.  They had to coordinate their throws so all of the rocks went in at the same time.

Then we spent some time playing at the logging obstacle course.  This 'see-saw' made the girls a bit nervous and took quite a bit of effort to get moving!

The Heidi-bug was not so sure about her backpack.  When we first headed out she was quite distraught in fact.  So, we took a picture, of course!  Eventually I carried her (playing with my hair was comforting apparently) and that calmed her down.  Mark did take a turn and as long as I was out of sight she was fine (I guess she is still more of a Mommy's-girl than we realized).  She was tired and hungry by the time we were done, but thankfully I think she is at least somewhat over her fear of the backpack.  For now.

With all of the fog around here things were pretty cold.  Nate was the official hand-warmer for this trip (who knew we needed gloves!!).  It was pretty cute to see the girls hanging on to him!  We're looking forward to more adventures in 2014!  Hopefully some with SNOW.