Birthdays and Cousins

Instead of wrapping Ocean's presents for his birthday, we hid them and he had to go on a treasure hunt.

First he found the card from Grandma and Grandpa.

Next, he found a remote control helicopter. 

Then there was the DS game he wanted.

Last of all, some silly putty.

The next day, we had FAT.

My nephew, his wife and baby were in town as well as my sister-in-law and her kids, from Texas.

Look at that cute baby!

Cousins we haven't seen for couple of years.

Monday was Julius' birthday.  He wanted to go to the zoo.

We always have to climb on the hippo statue.

That evening, we had cupcakes and presents with is cousins.

He got new sand to fill the sand box.

The cousins all got to spend the night.

Boulder River Trail

We decided to take a hike in July on the Boulder River Trail.  

It was a beautiful day.  

 My sister and her family came with us.  She knew all kinds of plants along the trail and ones that were edible like these wild berries.

We walked through beautiful forests.

Zelda walked almost the whole way to the falls where we turned around.

She carried her baby the whole way too.

Daphne and Julius were buddies.

There were old logs to climb on next to the trail.

Ocean is surveying  the path.

At one point there were all these ferns growing.

And large cliffs.  Harvey was trying to climb up.

There were many little crevasses for photo ops.

Rez helped Zelda join Julius, Harvey, Mo and their cousin.

Here they are again.

Zelda and Rez didn't make it in time to join everyone else, so they go their own picture.

 

One of the favorite things was to run ahead (with an adult) and hide, scaring the others that came along.

There was a part that went up and down some.

And still Zelda insisted on walking herself.

You can see how Harvey liked it.

Here is looking down towards the river.

Zelda did get carried over the rocky part.  Daphne is carrying the backpack we brought for her.

We made it to the overlook of the falls.  They were beautiful.

Plus there was a cool tree to climb under and through. 

We sat next to it and ate our dinner.

There was a drop off down to the river on the other side of the trail, so we had to keep close tabs on all the kids, but we had a fun time.

We headed back to the start after that.  It was starting to get dark, but we didn't have any problems.

It was a fun afternoon.