Monday: Pine Creek Play Day

My friend Debbie has a tradition with her kids where they camp for 4 or 5 days right before school starts for one last summer HURRAH! They have other plans this year (since all but one of her kids is a nearly-grown teenager), but we still had a play day/ picnic up at Pine Creek on Monday.

Jenny, Haylee, Rosalie, Terin, Danny, Cassidy, Heidi, and Addie walking toward the creek
Jenny, Cassidy, Haylee, and Terin (beeeeehiiiiiives!)

Heidi feels the icy-cold creek water

James and Rosalie join in

Shoes on the creek bank

Danny and Addie at the creek

Heidi, Debbie, Hannah, Me, and James just chillin'

Me & my cutie-midgey-niece, Hannah

Heidi & Aunt Debbie=Best Pals

Heidi, James, and Hannah coloring on the picnic blanket

Heidi

Rosalie, Addie, & Danny checking out some butterflies

Addie & Danny in the woods

PEEK-A-BOO!

Aunt Debbie sent the kids on a fun treasure hunt (for tootsie pops!)

James and Hannah opted out of the treasure hunt cuz they were too tired!

They had a drink and watched a Thomas DVD instead.

Addie enjoying her sucker

Danny relaxing in Aunt Debbie's hammock

Addie & Danny got the life...

Debbie & Heidi

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On the way home, we encountered a

Montana Roadblock...

(don't mind my nice cracked windshield)

I took this out the passenger side door...how now, brown cow?

Around the bend we found another roadblock, this time with horses.

(this is the ledge where Rich & I were engaged, BTW)

This is the last switchback coming down Pine Creek road...

the ranch is in the distance there...

I love Paradise Valley!