Saturday was supposed to be rainy and cold but when we woke up it turned out to be incredibly beautiful! Once we did the rounds of extra dance rehearsals and yard work we headed off to the Dinosaur Park for some hiking and family time. It turned out everyone had the same idea so it was kind of crowded but the butterflies are starting to appear and nothing gets the littles excited more than the gorgeous colors of the butterflies!
If you read the blog you know that I am a sucker for these weird things that you stick your head in! My kids - apparently love them too!
Even Bob gets in on the pictures when he can look like a long neck dinosaur!
My five gorgeous children!
Will they ever all look and smile at the same time? Probably not but this Mama keeps trying!
Molly insisted on taking one of Bob and I! She is such a good photographer!
The seven Harding - Wheelers - how lucky am I?
The girls!
Ellie LOVES hiking, running, walking, bouncing! She loves to be moving!
My sweet baby girl!
Sisters!
Lizzie Bug being reflective while she balances on a rock!
Annie Bananie loves playing in the rocks by the butterfly garden.
Lizzie is such an athlete - she goes to the highest point on the wall and jumps without even thinking about it! Love her spirit!
I love this picture of the girls jumping together - they had the hugest grins on their faces.
The four girls jumping!
This is the log that Molly wants for our living room - she thinks it would make the perfect couch!
Balancing on the fallen tree!
Lizzie needs some help from Daddy to do what her big sister did!
It's all about balancing in this family!
I love this picture! Everyone just happened to stop near this huge tree so we could watch the butterflies over the swamp. I suddenly looked over and realized that my entire world was smiling up at me next to a 300 year old tree - so I did what any good mother would do and grabbed the camera!
Annie's butterfly, Twinkle!
Taking a rest!
And again - whatever Molly does they all do! The joys of being a big sister!
Annie trying to get a flutterfly to land on her!
After an hour and half of hiking we headed back to our favorite rock for some water and a snack!
Ellie Bean loves being outside and moving - she kept yelling, "I'm so happy!"
Annie banged into Gavin's teeth at school and has a giant bump on her poor little head - that being said, she is still unbelievably gorgeous!
My beautiful baby girl - every day she gets more freckles along the bridge of her nose!
Mommy and Molly taking a break in the grass and having a snack. Molly and I did the real hiking trails in the back of the park - they were very tiring! Love anything I can do with my Molly-Girl!
Daddy was sitting on this rock and once I took a picture of Ellie hugging him all the littles followed suit! Too cute!
Annie and Daddy
Elizabeth Mack and her Daddy
I was trying to get a nice picture of our twins but they were not cooperative in any way! Lizzie was so interested in her pretzels that she barely looked at me!
And this is our twins - laying on a rock, munching on pretzels and smiling up at Mama! Life doesn't get better than being these girls Mom!
My sweetie girl!
All in all a really relaxing and nice weekend. We have lots of fun stuff coming up in the next few weeks so it was nice for the seven of us to get out and do something together! My guess is that you will see more pictures of us at the Dinosaur Park since it is the place the kids always want to go when we ask them! Sounds okay to me!
GNM - ILY!
