A hike, a picnic, and a lizard too

Hi!

Yesterday was July 1st. Wow, already. How can time fly by so quickly? We need to decide what we want to do for the 4th. There are several fireworks shows in our area. We've talked about going to the lake with the kayak and playing at the beach. Have to decide pretty quick.

The boys and I trimmed bushes around our walkway while E slept. Well, I trimmed the bushes while the boys played with the garden hose. They watered literally everything except for my herb spiral that I asked them to water, and most of their watering was each other.

At 6pm last evening we met a couple other hikers and our whole family went for a short easy hike. E was in the front pack carrier (Baby Bjorn), and it was her first official hike. She's been on a few walks in the carrier, but this was our longest, almost 2 miles along the nature trail at the Basque Monument. We had a great time. DH took pictures and our two new friends from our meetup hiking group taught us about ballroom dancing and geocaching. They helped the little guys find 3 hidden treasures. How fun! We have a GPS and I'll have to register at geocaching.com so that we can do this too. It was so cool! The boys felt like secret treasure hunters and some of the caches were harder to find. I've looked into geocaching from time to time, but the boys are definitely old enough to try it out now.

Today the boys are having picnic in the front yard. I'm sitting here with Sister, helping her to fall asleep. I'll then join the boys for watermelon. Oh, they caught a huge skink (lizard) a few days ago. He's enjoying the picnic too. The boys say they are using their bananas to lure flies to catch for the lizard. What a yummy idea... not. LOL! But boy, you should see that lizrd dive after the moths they catch in the evenings.