One cold hike

Saturday seeemed like a pretty warm day. I guess compared to our 20 degree's the 40 seemed really warm so I decided to take the kids on a hike. We drove to Skyline Drive and hiked on one of the trails in that area. When we got on the trail the sun was no longer out and it was COLD. But the kids really needed to get out and they LOVED it and ran and ran. We saw a couple of older guys walking and one of them told us about a bridge that he took his grandkids too so the kids wanted to see if they could reach it. And sure enough we walked to the bridge. We didn't stay long as we needed to get back to the car before the younger ones started coomplaining. I only had to carry Mayah toward the end. Everyone else did awesome. It was really fun. I think I am going to have to take Don on this trail and do this hike together while someone watches the kids. It is probably about 8 miles long. We have already had two offers from people to watch the kids so Don and I can go on a date. I am really going to have to take these people up on this. These date nights don't come often.

After our short one mile hike we came back to the house and had hot chocolate. It was a great night.

Then on Sunday I didn't feel much like cooking. For lunch we just had left over tacos but then we didn't really have anything pulled out of the freezer for dinner. So I cut up a few veggies (carrots, celery and cucumbers). That was our appetizer. Then for our main dish we had snickerdoodle cookies. Remember, there are two eggs in them for the protein. To finish the healthy meal we had hot chocolate. As we were eating I told the kids not to eat too fast because we wanted to enjoy this healthy meal. That is when they pretty much ALL said, "THIS ISN'T HEALTHY". Well atleast they know. I have taught them well.