Almost Too Late..............

We're always excited to have the kids and grand kids visit and this last weekend the Keppy's were on the calendar!  They arrived Friday early evening and were amazed that the trees were STILL beautiful here on the property!

Did we have big plans for the weekend?  Not really - but sometimes that makes for the BEST weekends!!

Papa's pancakes were in demand on Sat. morning and Kenzie was thrilled to see her name all written out!

After packing a lunch and grabbing jackets, we headed over to Mueller State Park - the kids love stopping at the Nature Trail for kids and walking around the lake!

We had picked out the hike we wanted to take by remembering what trail we had taken a few years ago that had beautiful aspens!!  Unfortunately they were past their prime this year but there were still plenty of trees to see!  It had rained a little bit the night before and between the rain and the dew, all the aspen leaves on the ground were covered with water drops - it always amazes me how the drops stay on the leaves!!

Evan and Kenzie were troopers on the hike - we ended up going about 4 miles and they hardly complained at all!  I loved watching them walk down this sea of yellow leaves!

A pose at the same rock where we took pictures years ago when Evan was just a little guy!

And then it was time to stop for lunch!  Gary had a spot picked out but Glenn said no, we needed to picnic on the other side of the trail so that's what we did - check out our view while we ate!

Picnic lunches always taste good in the wilderness!!

After we ate, Glenn was walking around and Evan decided to scout a little too - he walked over a few feet from our blanket and guess what he found - an IPOD!!!  It was dirty and cracked on one corner but we picked it up and took it back to the house - plugged it in and it charged!!  Tried to find the owner but to no avail so Evan now has an IPOD!!!  There were pictures on this device of the same view we were looking at so we put the pictures on the computer when we got home which shows the date they were taken - and believe it or not, the park pictures were taken July of 2013 - this IPOD had been lying there for over a year and 2 months and still worked - AMAZING!!!!

Kenzie has always been Papa's girl and I love this picture of the 2 of them!! Check out those dark clouds in the background!

We had a great hike and headed back to the house to relax the afternoon away.................