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Easter

April 15, 2020

It was not a normal Easter around here but we still had a good day. We had dyed eggs the day before…

eggs

and the bunny did come so the kids were excited to get some treats…

eggs

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He also hid the real eggs outside and lots of fake eggs inside. A fun hunt for all!

eggs

The weather wasn’t great and we had some severe storms that night. We tried to get out for a bike ride but didn’t make it very far before the rain came.

bike

We did make some cupcakes which made the day special.

easter

Other than that, I took a much needed nap, the kids watched The Goonies for the first time, and we all had pork tacos for dinner. Easter indeed! Hope you all had a good one!

I didn’t pull any big pranks this year but I couldn’t resist getting the kids at least a little! When they came down for breakfast I told them I had made them some brown-eees! Yum! They were pretty excited until they took the foil off!

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hahaha! I didn’t lie!

brownies

Later that day on our hike I told them that the Governor had just made an announcement that all kids were going to have to repeat their current grade again next year! I totally fooled them and they were not happy!! hahaha! Thankfully we’ll be moving on to K, 2nd and 4th grade next year – if we all survive home school that is!

Cheaha

April 13, 2020

A week ago Saturday with Robert in tow we made the drive to Cheaha State Park. We even got to drive through Camp Mac on the way! We started with the easy hike/walk to Bald Rock – pretty nice!

bald rock

chetah

bald rock

We then headed over Pulpit Rock which also had some great views.

chetah

Robert even got a bit daredevil and climbed out onto this rock!

chetah

Don’t fall!

chetah

Was this staged? I’ll never tell.

chetah

The goal of our day was really to see a waterfall but we kept getting detoured because of trailheads being closed. We finally managed to make our way to Cheaha Falls though and it was pretty cool!

falls

It was a long day of adventuring and we all felt like this on the long drive home!

chetah

Thankful for the time spent together on another beautiful day!

King’s Chair

April 10, 2020

Another day, another hike! Last week on a slightly more chilly day, I took the kids out to Oak Mountain to hike up to King’s Chair. They weren’t quite so sure of the temps when we started…

oak man

but we quickly warmed up and enjoyed the adventure.

oak man

We went to King’s Chair by way of Eagle’s Nest. It was a pretty aggressive uphill hike but the kids did great!

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eagles nest

Climbing up Eagle’s Nest seemed like a good idea until we had to get down!

oak man

We made it then were finally on our way to King’s Chair!

oak man

When we got to the top we were pretty impressed with the view!

oak man

Not a bad place to stop for a snack! We were then going to head back down the mountain and got back on the trail only to see a sign pointing up to King’s Chair! We hadn’t even made it to the top yet! I’m so glad we noticed that because we definitely wanted to sit on the throne! The views up there were even better…

oak man