Memorial Weekend

It's been an incredibly cold spring.

The coldest spring on the books actually.

So when my sister invited us to Torrey for Memorial Weekend,

we jumped on the opportunity for warmer weather!

Grandma and Grandpa came too.
It was such a great time!

The weather was warm, but It was a little windy.
The kids had a blast on the three wheeler and motorcycle.

We spent most of our first day just hanging out,

 playing on the three wheeler and motorcycle and we

took a few short hikes.

We stopped at the river and told the kids they could get their feet wet.

That lasted for all of about five minutes.... Right after the group photo above

Nadya lost her balanced and grabbed Carter in a desperate attempt to stay dry

and pulled Carter in with her.  He was not happy to say the least.

So it was pretty much a free for all after that.

The kids moved on to sliding down the rock-

Which wasn't a great idea considering they all walked away with new holes on the bottom of their shorts.

Oh well.  They had fun!

The wind didn't let up at night,  so we didn't get to have any great fires outside.

But, that didn't stop us from making smores.

The next day we drove the 40 minutes or so to Boulder to hike Calf Creek Falls.

It's a six mile round trip hike to an amazing water fall.

The kids did awesome!

Hallie, our slow poke, was the first one in and the first one out.

Apparently, she no longer wants to be known as the slow one in the family.

Carter kept telling us along the way that when we finally got to the waterfall, he was going to dip his head in.

Which he did, more than once.

The waterfall was beautiful and I was so proud of the kids.

They hiked their little hearts out!