Spontaneous

Many of you know my good husband. He's hardworking. He's an engineer. He thrives on plans. One of his favorite questions is, "Ok, so what's the plan?" Today he emailed me at around 2:00, and said he wanted to go on a hike this evening. I was pretty surprised! He's never been so spontaneous! He took us to this nice little trail. It was a perfect evening...overcast, breezy, 70-ish degrees. My regret...I forgot my camera. Grrrr. That makes me so mad! Thankfully, I had my cell phone. Here we are at the trail head.
Following the leader.

Raychel said, "Mom, those flowers are gorgeous! You need to take a picture because they are your favorite!" It was all she could do to leave them be. My girl loves picking bouquets of flowers for me.

Almost there...

Enjoying the view.

I cannot tell you how happy I was to get this picture! I am so bad at taking those self portraits. To some people it's like second nature. Not me. We captured this beauty after 2 tries!

Daddy and his favorite ladies. So our girls will have nightmares this week about...mountain lions. On the way back to the car, James was telling the girls about all the big, hungry mountain lions that live where we were hiking, and how they love to eat little girls. THEN we saw a dead rabbit. He told them that the mountain lion had gotten a hold of that rabbit, and was coming back later to finish eating his dinner. We'd walk a few steps and James would shake a bush a growl really loud to try and scare everyone (which it did scare everyone). Anna turns around and goes, "Knock it off, Dad. I know you're just tryin' to scare me." Miss. 'Tude. The whole ride home was mountain lion conversation and questions. Finally, James says, "Your Papa loves mountain lions. He knows all about them. You'll have to be sure and ask him all those questions." HAHAHA! I'm sure Papa will be so glad James deferred all questions to him!