Hiking Adventures

When you know it's going to be a beautiful day after it's been cold and snowy, what do you do? You go exploring!

 Especially since we are in a new place, we love to just drive around and find new adventures.

Since it was going to be so nice and we had been stuck in the house, we decided that we wanted to do a little bit of hiking. So we drove to Colorado (we are about 10 miles from the state line) to go to the Devil's Backbone to do some hiking. 

Prior to going hiking, we stopped at Sheels, our new favorite store to shop at to buy the kids their own Yeti cups. Being here and the high altitude, we are dealing with some dehydration issues, especially with McKaila. So, the kids got to pick out the cups they wanted to help them drink more water and they each wanted cups like mommy and daddy.   

After some shopping at Sheels and some pizza eating at Pizza Ranch, we drove to the Devil's Backbone. We had drove through the area one other time and did get out of the car in an attempt to do some walking, but it was so cold, that we didn't get too far. But, that time we did get to see some elk roaming around. And unfortunately, this time we didn't see any, but we did get to witness some beautiful views.

The girls wanted to go a little higher up the mountain and Logan was tired, so Courtney took the girls up the mountain some more, while I walked back with Logan. The girls really enjoyed it and thought it was so cool that they were able to climb up to the top. 

Hopefully next time, Logan and I can climb up more of the mountain because it sure looked beautiful from the pictures. 

The kids did a really great job with the hike. It was pretty rocky at times, but they did awesome! 

It was a pretty awesome day and I am looking forward to more days like that, where we can get out of the house and hike up some mountains. And I am sure, in the spring/summer we will be spending most of our weekends doing just that!

The beautiful sky on our way back home