Labor Day Crazy

Yesterday, since we both had off for Labor Day, Shawn and I decided to go to Pinnacle Mountain with the kids. It is a state park here and has a playground, arboretum, walking and hiking trail, and more. It is only about 10 minutes from our house, but we had never been. It's a big thing to do here. So we thought we would climb up the mountain with the kids to the summit. It's not like it's Everest or anything so we though, "why not"!

The kids were excited and full of energy. But little did we know what we were in for.

A few pictures and we were on our way. At first we thought, uh oh what have we done. The whole first half was man made step and rocks. Harrison could do some, but had to be carried most of it.

Cute picture, right! Everyone took a break on some rocks to rest and have a drink. Right, except this next picture is what we had ahead of us!!!!!

Yup that's right. This was the second half of the climb up the mountain! But did we stop and turn around.......NOOOO! We kept going. We took turns carrying the kids up these rocks. Kelsey did a lot of it herself, thank goodness. All I kept thinking was, "we have to do this on the way back down too". We finally got to the top about 1 hour and 15 minutes later. It was worth it, I guess. Here is one of the views from the top....

It was a pretty rough hike by yourself much less with two little ones with you. It was fun though. Kelsey kept saying, "this is fun". But when I asked her if she wanted to do it again she quickly said NO. We were all worn out the rest of the day, but had a good time. Did we go crazy or what?