Nugget Falls

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Daycare was closed on Monday, so I took the day off to play. 

First up was swim lessons. Gabe is doing so great that his teacher actually thinks he could qualify for swim club. I’m not sure about that, but the kid has made incredible progress and I’m super proud of him.

Next we had to go rescue Freddy from the pound. He’d followed us to Gabe’s game on Saturday and a last thought he was going to get hit by a car and took him in to animal control. But the good news is that we realized while trying to get him home that his rabies shot had slipped through the cracks, so we got that taken care of. We definitely don’t want to be dealing with rabies…

Then we all hiked out to the waterfall: the boys and I, Laurie and Nathan and Bryson and Katilyn. Between the three boys, there was no concern about bears, as they made so much noise that all bears had probably left a 5 mile radius… Gabe and Bryson particular enjoyed hiding behind rocks to scare us. They weren’t nearly as excited about it when Nathan hid being a rock and scared them…









Gabe insisted on climbing the giant rocks. 











Laurie is gutsy, letting Gabe take some pictures…



And then just as we started back home, it started raining. Luckily no one minded.



Then we got home and got some lunch. Then I took Bella to the doctor to get her cast off. She’s still got a walking boot for a bit, but her foot is looking so much better!!



Then Laurie made dinner for everyone and we managed to squish a lot of people around our table.



It was a pretty great day.

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