Okay, so about a week ago I had mentioned to the kids that we should hike the mountain that's basically in our backyard (not literally, but you can see it from our back windows so we call it the Backyard Mountain). Unfortunately, I knew we wouldn't be able to hike it for a bit, but Pierce heard "climb the mountain" and would NOT stop bringing it up haha.
I didn't realize when I had planned it that it would mean we ended up doing 2 hikes this week, but I don't mind. It's so good to get out. I'm in a step challenge at work and I knew my goal this week would be amazing!
Originally, I wanted it to be a sunset hike, but I forgot how quickly it really is to go up this mountain. I believe we made it up within 15 minutes (it IS a mountain though, it's 15 minutes straight up). We got up and walked around for a while, but we realized the sun doesn't set as early as I had thought so we headed back down a little earlier. Luckily, we still had some popsicles, so when we got home we let the kids have the last of those so that kind of makes up for the non-sunset part of our sunset hike haha.
Now, we've done that mountain before, but this was the first time for Pierce and Lucy and they did really well with it. Pierce had NO fear coming down and just kept leaning forward (Larry had a hold of his shirt so he didn't fall). It was also fun to point out our homes, schools, gymnastics...all the things when we were at the top. The kids really had fun playing around at the top, pretending to be Pokémon and eating the berries there (just pretend though...we VERY much reminded them to not eat wild berries they didn't know what they were).
While I'm SO excited for Fall, I'm doing my best to enjoy what we have left of Summer. Before I know it, snow will be coming and I'll be missing the warmth of Summer (not to mention how small laundry is right now because it's all shorts and tank tops haha).
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