" The Red Mountains"

This past weekend we spent in Sedona - or, as I told Nate when we counted down, that we were going to"the red mountains". The kids had a wonderful time! (mommy and daddy are wishing for a bit of sleep but it was fun to watch the kids have a good time!) They both did awesome in the car, watched a bit of a movie but otherwise played with cars, looked out the window. As soon as we got there we had some lunch and then began our first hike - West Fork Trail. This is one of our favorites since it takes place going in a creek, so it was cooler down there (what a relief it was to get away from our first few days of 100 degree weather, but even a few hours north it was still around 90).

No daddy, not in the water!

 

 

 

 

After about three hours hiking, (I was so proud of Aaron, missing his nap and all he walked a lot of it and really enjoyed himself!) we checked in to our hotel and then went to an organic Italian place called Picazzo's. Their berry sangria was the best! So good, in fact that mommy had two ;) By the time we were done there it was already time to get ready for bed so we went back and "attempted" to get everyone in bed...we're finding out more and more how we need to avoid just having one single room! It took about two hours to get everyone asleep.

The next morning we went on one more hike to see the "submarine mountain".

Brother, hold my hand please!

We had lunch and left for home soon after. No doubt the boys were in their glory, being outside. One of them is bound to have a job something to do with that- mountain rescue, park ranger, professional fisherman...something that involves being outside!

Daddy and Nate have plans to camp out with our church over Memorial Day weekend. Nate will be just delighted. I'm sure the countdown for that will begin soon...