Sunday, April 14, 2013

hiking with coop on his birthday!

Today is Coop's 9th birthday! I can hardly believe he's getting so old.  He and I are spending his special day at Petit Jean State Park in Arkansas, just past Little Rock, hiking with his soccer team.  This will be a new experience for us!  Happy Birthday to my baby boy!

katie thomas designed, cut, and painted this wooden birthday sign for our yard.  the name plate slides onto dowel rods, and we have wooden plates with each of our names.  i gave her the idea of what i wanted and she created this above and beyond what i envisioned!   thank you kt!

at the visitor center of the state park

starting the 4.5 mile hike
 
 the natural bridge, where we stopped to have lunch
 

 
 
 

climbing big bear rock
 
 the top of big bear rock is where we ate freeze dried ice-cream to celebrate coop's birthday!  thank you, blair, for providing the astronaut food!
 they found a cave!
 
 the boys could barely squeeze through the rocks to climb up and over, but they managed.
 




coop leads the way!

turtle rocks!



they loved feeling the cold stream water between the rocks.


at the Grotto and small waterfall

looking for crawfish

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