I didn’t realize when we bought our house that we now have a provincial park less than 15 fifteen minutes away. North and East from our house is Big Hill Springs Provincial Park. There isn’t a steak house, a candy shop, a 7-11 or anything else where you can buy something sweet and yummy but there is beautiful views, year long flowing waterfalls and a nice, easy trail to walk. There are bears and cougars in the area so it’s best to stay on the trail and make a lot of noise which was very easy for us. Making noise has never been hard for my kids. In fact, while I’m sitting quietly, typing out this blog post, Jason is sitting next to me watching another DVD of Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe. David is hopping all over the room, ramming his cars into each other and hollering at them to be careful. It’s a noisy house and it’s not even 9:00 in the morning yet!
This was the first time that we hiked the trail and I wanted a picture to mark the start of our journey. This was really funny when less than 45 minutes later, walking at a 3 year old’s pace, we were at the end of the trail. It was beautiful so we kept stopping to take pictures of the spring and play in the water. We saw lots of animals tracks but no animals besides the birds.
Jason was having so much! He kept searching for large boulders to climb onto so he could sit and ask me to take a picture of him. Then he would find a way to climb to the top of the waterfall and ask me to take a picture of him there. The he would climb a tree and ask me to take another picture of him. Somehow I get the idea that he could be perfectly happy to be in the mountains every day.
A mother could never be more proud.
don’t you just love the summertime? I can’t believe how homesick for all of you these pictures make me feel.