Family Bike Ride

Well now that Greg's bike was stolen I figured if I blogged about how fun our last family bike ride was maybe it would help me feel a desire to spend some money on a new bike. Jerks.

(Tati maintained this pose for like 20 min. "eating" a fruit leather bar without spit dripping down her whole person. If she can manage that, then surely she can eat a little neater at home.)

(This one is for Greg. Woo-woo!)

Anyway, we woke up on a beautiful, sunny Saturday morning, packed some snacks and the kids and went exploring down in the river valley. It really is gorgeous here when it is warm. Everything is green and there are so many blossoms on the fruit trees and lots of other just flowering trees in general. We also live close to a big river with several smaller creeks and rivers. Fine, I'll say it, there is definitely some appeal to living here when it isn't snowing, or raining, or freezing.

We found this really cool park/meadow thing surrounded by trees. We were the only ones there practically the entire time we were there. The surrounding trees were cool because they masked the big downtown buildings and it really felt like we took a vacation somewhere. The girls had a great time, picking grass, playing with ladybugs, climbing trees and running around. We also had fun taking some Spring family pictures which resulted in our new header. Why does it always seem like the bulk of our usable family pics end up being when I'm not planning on beautifying before? Frustrating. But I guess when you've got it, you've got it--bed head and sweatshirt or not. :-)

(Here Chloe is feeding "Slappy" her lizard LPS some grass.)

(Chloe pretending she was a bride with her bouquet of blossoms.)

(Tati has this thing with eating dirt. She has been on hunger strike lately so maybe she really is mal-nourished.)

(Chloe tried to make Tati a bride, but she ended up looking more like Godzilla. She threw the flowers and then stomped all over them when she was done. This girl is drama city.)

(Tati holding her first ladybug on her hand. I'm surprised this ladybug lived through this whole experience. I'm sure the next one will be smashed. She did have a lot of supervision afterall.)

(She's saying, "Where'd he go?" after the poor ladybug ran for its life or flew for its life. He was no dummy.)

Chloe even managed to save Tati's life. She came running over to us breathing all hard and proceeded to tell us about how she had just saved Tati's life because Tati was about to eat some dog poop. After surviving an intense interrogation about whether or not the poop ever touched her mouth, etc., we congratulated her and deemed her the best big sister in the entire world. She really is too.

YEAH FOR SPRING! FINALLY!