Hiking in Papa's woods

Maddie was using this tree as a balance beam.
Macy was getting ready to try and jump over the creek, this is how it all started. They missed and then once the were wet it became a free for all.
Dylan was laughing so hard when he slid down the muddy hill, I was going to tell them not to but it was so funny.
That is Macy's hand in the bottom of the frame, she was going to catch Maddie.
The kids are looking back at me and saying, "can we jump over the water," the should have said may we, because no they did not make it.

Yesterday the kiddos were really bored in the evening, my house was too clean for projects so we took a little drive to Kris and Neal's and walked back through the woods to burn some energy. It was really fun. It is really neat to watch how easily kids are happy, they played in the creek for over an hour, picked up buckeyes, and slid down the really steap and muddy hill. I would use the old cliche that the best things in life are free, but in this case it cost me all of the clothes the kids had on, they were covered in water and dirt. They clothes are not coming clean anyday soon. I really was missing Michael, this is usually something he would do with the kids, he would have found them pretty funny. Speaking of Mike, he did get an elk. He shot it Sunday night and boy is he a happy guy. They are heading home on Saturday morning, and boy will I be a happy wife. I CANNOT WAIT.