More Family Fun

So I've been crocheting my heart away tonight and finally decided to take a break. I've been trying to post about this fun little family outing we had last weekend and realized if I don't get this done tonight, I might never find time to post about it next week. :)

On Sunday, the day after Fourth of July, we decided to take a little drive south to a little place called Nojoqui Falls Park.


We've been there several times but I think the last time we were there was when Alyssa was the age Audrey is now. I didn't realize it had been that long. Anyhow, it's such a nice park and what's neat about it is that you can take a really cool path to get the actual "falls" part of the park. I am normally not a "nature girl," (my Hubby wishes I was) but when he suggested us going there that day, I decided not to say no and just go for it. It was nice to get out and do something different and it turned out to be a fun way to end off our awesome holiday weekend.

Here are a few of the pictures I took. Here's my sweet girl smiling for Mommy.



When we got to the part where you can hike up to the falls area, we had to fold up the stroller and walk up a path. This is the view of the path as I looked back to where we had come from...



This path continued for a while until we got to this beautiful area where the falls are located. The amount of water that comes down really varies during the different seasons. There have actually been times that we've been there when there wasn't any water flowing. This particular time there was not a lot of water. I tried to get a picture of the view of the falls, but it was a little tough to do. Besides that, there were some other people down there and I didn't want them to think I was trying to take their picture too. ;)

Here's another shot as you're looking up.

I had my Hubby take this picture of me and the girls. At least I got one out of two girls smiling!

I took a few other pictures of the girls and then there was a sweet gal who was also down at the falls with her family who offered to take a picture of all of us. I'm so glad she offered, because I'm not really one to ask strangers to take our picture!


Well, that about covers our little outing to nature. It was such a nice time and the best part of it was that my Hubby and I had a lot of time to talk as we drove to and from the park. It's funny how you can just get so caught up with the busyness of life that you sometimes don't really take the time to talk to your spouse. What makes it even harder sometimes when you have a Hubby who works as hard and as much as mine does is that most of the time you have together is filled with trying to let him rest from all the long hours he puts in at work. I am so grateful for my Hubby and all he does for us so that I can stay home with our girls!

And speaking of our girls...tonight we are minus one little girl in our house. It's Miss Alyssa, and she's staying the night over at my sister Yvonne's house! Alyssa has been asking me for a while when she would be able to stay the night at her "Auntie Bon's" house. What's special about tonight is that it's her very first time being away from us overnight EVER. We figured that it was finally okay to let the girl her stay the night away from us. After all...she is four years old already! When I dropped her off tonight, she was kind enough to tell me that Audrey and I could go ahead and go home, LOL! She couldn't wait to start her Mommy and Daddyless night and something tells me she didn't miss us one single bit!!!