Father's Day Hike

For Father's Day, Ty wanted to go hiking. We went up to Thomas Creek and went on about a 3 mile hike. Ty likes to run and mountain bike up there, but this was the first time at this creek for the rest of us. It is really pretty up there, especially by the creek where there's a bigger variety of tree, plants, etc. than mostly the pine trees surrounding us.
At the beginning of the hike, Aidan, Finn and Brogan stayed with me while Ty and Connor ran up the trail ahead of us. We were about halfway to our destination when they met back up with us. Aidan had made walking sticks for himself and the twins. Finn kept offering me hers, but I had to tell her thank you, but it's easier to walk without it (in my opinion). Everyone kept throwing sticks in the creek for Chessie to fetch and she would only find them about half the time, but she loved it. At one point we were up above the creek probably about 4-5 feet and she had gone in the creek to get the huge stick Ty threw for her, but she couldn't get out and was not going to let go of that stick. Ty had to grab her by the collar and help her up. The kids had a lot of fun exploring and finding huge pine cones and places to wander through. People go horseback riding up there too, so there were a ton of piles of horse poop to avoid although Aidan told me Brogan stepped in them a couple of times. Eww! Towards the end of the hike there was a cool place where a bunch of trees had fallen over the creek and I had the kids climb over them for a picture with Ty. We had a good time spending time together.
Afterwards we went to see Crampa and have dessert, but we were a little earlier than planned and had dinner too and just hung out for awhile.
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TY AND POP!