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This is a pretty common picture for our family. Dad and kids tickling and wrestling while Mom stays out if it and takes pictures.
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This was the first morning in Oklahoma. We decided to take a weekend trip and stay in a cabin.
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We hiked Turner Falls.
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There was of course a path to walk on, but true to his inner boy, Dade had to climb on the rocks.
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AZ chose the path.
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Proof that Grayer was there!
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Don't you totally remember doing things like this? Stairs?...too easy, must climb ramp!
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Can we install one of these in our house?
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They had so much fun climbing around this "castle". It was actually designed to look like a castle and built as a summer home.
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Look at Aislyn's hand in her pocket...a new must.
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Pictures from this angle always make the kids look so tall.
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Turner Falls. Beautiful.
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There were turtles everywhere. Dain caught one so the kids could look at it. Aislyn was the only one brave enough to touch it.
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Then into swimsuits we go. We didn't bother putting Dade in his, because he had already slipped and gotten himself all wet.
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The next sequence of pictures are really a dance routine. AZ was singing a song (not heard before by Mom or Dad) and the dancing began. She had no idea I was talking pictures.
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We are definitely planning a trip back there soon.
2 comments:
hey girlie!!!! isn't that place so fun!!! mark and I go there every January. we haven't taken the kids yet... maybe we should!!!! how are you?!! miss you!!!
Looks like fun! Miss you and love you.
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