Hiking Adventures

One of my goals for this summer is to go on a hike once a week. We have lived in Washington for 5 years now and I want to get out and see more of it. So this week was just beautiful! I decided to take the kids on a hike we have never been on, but when I checked the website it said it was great for kids. How hard can it be to take 4 kids on a little hike?

 I brought the moby wrap so I could easily carry Jacob. But he wanted to walk the first little bit and we started out great, all smiles.

 So if any of you know my brother Joshua, he has a long goatee. Noah found this moss growing everywhere along the trail. He picked some and put it to his chin and looks just like my brother! Ha!

 The kids had so much fun playing on all the old stumps and rocks along the way.

 As we got further along the trail I started getting really nervous. We passed a big group of older folks coming down and they all seemed amazed that I was hiking with all these little kids by myself. One man warned me that the trail narrows up ahead and to keep the kids close. Well the trail did narrow and that wouldn't be so bad, except the trail was very high up above the river. I was constantly telling the kids to stay away from the edge, hold my hand, don't run and other such things a protective mother would say! I could just see one of them running along and then tripping and falling to the river below. Ugh, I'm such a worry wart!

 Daniel was running up ahead of me and tripped (don't worry, we were not near any big cliffs he could fall from at that time). He fell on his head and got a little "battle wound" on his forehead. You can't take 4 little kids on a hike without at least one scrape or bruise.

 This is a view of the river below us. We weren't too high up at this point. It was beautiful up there.

 One mile up the trail was the 1st of the water falls. This is as far as we got as it was getting late and we needed to get home. 2 miles is far enough for us, especially with carrying a almost two year old.

This was a cool old tree along the trail and the kids begged me to take a picture with them on it. What you can't see is that just behind the tree it drops off over 100 feet to the river below. It was a fun hike, but I think our next hike will not have any cliffs or raging rivers for my littles for fall off or into.