Party on the Trail

Have you ever gone hiking with 17 people? Have you ever had 8 of them be 8 or under? This Sunday we did just that with the whole family. This included the Farmers (5), Taylors (4), us (5), Nana, Papa and Neena. Quite a group! We hiked to Wind Cave and had a great time doing it!

Here are the Elite 8. LOVE that we can do this kind of stuff with them now.

Also love that they all know how to pose for the camera!

Nana and Neena

We were quite the intimdating group to other hikers. One person asked if this was a school!

The kids are so used to me that if I say their name, they just look at me and smile! Pretty Julia!

Logan

Makenna

Cam

Izzy's first hiking trip (Michelle and Scott's dog). She did great.

Taking a snack break. Notice Morgan's cast (she broke her arm a couple of weeks ago). What a trooper she was hiking with only one arm to use!

Megan playing with Mom's camera.

Camden and Daymon

Cousin fun!

The grandparents and Morgan

Delaney did a fantastic job. She really walked most of the way up!

The hike leads to Wind Cave. We ate a snack here, rested and fed the chipmunks. This was the end of the ascent for the youngest kids and a few of the adults. After a rest, they all headed back down It was 1.6 miles to this point.

My sweet husband who is so excited that our kids are old enough to hike! :)

Some of us decided to hike the rest of the way up to the summit. This included the five oldest grandkids (Julia, Riley, Logan, Makenna and Camden), Greg, Christian, Dad and myself.

Here is Makenna at the top!

And Makenna and Camden

Papa and Riley

We climb all the way up to the top and what to do the kids do there? They play house! Wish I had taken a picture, but they found four rocks that formed a little square they could crawl inside of and they played a quick game of house. Silly kids!

Then we headed all the way back down. A long, exhausting and fun hike! :)