Hiking The Butte

Saturday I got a wild hair and called up Renae and Karlie to see if they wanted to come hiking with me and the kids. Our destination? The Butte. Now, Renae and I got most of the way up a few years ago, but turned around due to little kids who were not being cooperative hikers. Then, two years ago, Matt hiked the Butte with his dad and the kids. They have been dying to go back ever since. My three little sweeties. They were such good hikers. While this is only a 3 mile hike, it is very steep, and these kids did amazingly well.

Me and my kids. We were all so excited to have made it to the top of the mountain. Everybody coming down from the mountain. There are two side of the butte to hike. One, is very lush, and thick, and has these series of stairs towards the top, that you have to climb before you get to another section that has steep back switches geared with ropes on the sides for you to grab on to to help you up the side of the mountain. Imagine doing this with 7 kids...

So, along the way, we took a break and let the kids climb some trees. Morgan posing. Big surprise, I know.

This is the kids getting ready to go hike a mountain that day!