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Friday, May 31, 2013

Summer: Memorial Day and Red Cliffs Hiking Day


I'm super happy when Shane's Day off coordinate with holidays!  It makes it especially fun for when we want to have people over, like the Harris'!

Memorial Day BBQ - 






We pulled out the water slide and let the boys have at it!  While they played in the sun and water the adults visited and grilled up some burgers and dogs.

The menu included Holly's orzo pasta (yum), veggie tray, watermelon, ice cream cones, soda, various assortment of chips, beans, a trio of black olives, and all sorts of delicious.




Then on the 31st, we had
Red Cliffs Hiking day!
Which we also LOVED!


I love Red Cliffs for many reason.  In college Shane introduced me to the fantastic place. (We may have done some kissing on the trail.)   Another time Jessica and I grilled hamburgers there, and in lieu of a spatula, we used my truck ice scraper to flip the burgers.  And another time we (Rob and Alex) took my dog, Corbet, with us and I had to wade out in the swimming hole and he had to swim out and I pushed him up the waterfall so he could keep hiking with us.  These are some of my favorite college memories. Red Cliffs has brought me lots of Happy times, and this one was no exception.

Hollow Tree

Above the Hollow Tree
The gnarly growth



The twisty branched Cottonwood
The place where I pushed Corbet up the falls



However, there is no running water today!







Today Holly and I took Kidlets and a Picnic!

The kids again just enjoyed being alive in the great outdoors.  It was sort of shocking to have NO WATER in the stream when we got down into the stream bed.


They adventured and did all the things boys love to do: play with sticks, throw rocks, chase lizards, play in the water, etc.

Victorious rock climbers
After the picnic we were in for an even bigger surprise: the boys found crawdads in the stream down by the picnic area!  So more sticks and water play commenced.  Another VICTORIOUS summer day for Team Petty and Team Harris!


Looking at Crawdads

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