Thunderbird Mountain

Since David is no longer really allowed to run, hike or anything of that "fun" sort (thanks to horrible knees and bad ankle), we've been talking about how I need to step it up and make sure to take the boys out to do those sort of things.  

Saturday morning turned out to be a perfect opportunity to take my two little men for a hike.

Usually when we go to Thunderbird Mountain, we just do a very simple loop.  However, this time the boys decided they wanted to go to the top of the mountain.  So, that's what we did!  The boys did SO good!  I didn't hear one single complaint, no requests for rest breaks, they did a very good job of following the "trail manners" we had talked about and they made sure they drank lots and lots of water.  We even made it without any scraped hands, elbows or knees!  We did, however, come home with a few new rocks to add to our yard (I would really appreciate it if the designers of little boys clothes would make their pockets about half of their current size.  My little boys can squeeze way too much into those pockets of theirs!!).

When we were done and headed to the car, a lady stopped and asked if Kehlton had hiked the entire mountain.  When I told her that he had, she was quite impressed.  I am so proud of both of them; they were such good little troopers.

(Fyi...our new temple is just to our right a short distance.  Had the kind man who was taking our picture taken another step backwards, you would have seen it in the photo)

Unfortunately, I think we probably only have a few weekends of decent hiking weather left before it gets too hot.  We'll have to make the most of it while we can!