Goldwater Lake

We have several lakes around our town. We've been to all of them over the years except Goldwater Lake. David took today off since the kids are on Spring Break and we decided to go.

It's been awhile since we've enjoyed the great outdoors. It's hard to take a baby hiking. You (meaning David) has to carry him on his back the whole time. Everything is just harder. But he's old enough now to hang with big kids, so we are going to hit the trails more often.

Anyway, the kids were super excited and went running over a bridge to nowhere.

We went to the water and David showed the kids how to skip rocks.

Noah will be a quarterback or something one day. This kid has an arm.

We went for a walk/hike around the lake.

Emily was loving being at the lake.

Noah was loving throwing more rocks.

The rock climbing was by far their favorite.

I told Ben that this was nature's playground. He thought so.

Emily didn't go in, but Noah did get his feet wet at one point.

Ben looking handsome.

My girl striking a pose.

David took a picture of me with the kids. That will fill my quota of one per year.

Emily balancing on a rock.

Ben spinning webs.

I love these kids.

Sibling love.

Noah throwing more rocks. I'm not even kidding, he probably threw 150 rocks.

Taking a break.

They had a little play are with some swings, so we played while David got lunch from the car.


Salami sandwiches that Ben turns into a ghost.

You can't beat the view.

Emily took Noah down on the dock while we finished lunch.

The kids found some ducks.

And more rocks to climb.

I was a nervous wreck the whole time thinking someone was going to get hurt. But, nobody did. I was taking pictures while they were climbing some more rocks.


They climbed and climbed and climbed.

Now getting down would be the hard part.

They were completely exhausted when we left.

It was a great afternoon with perfect warm, sunny, no wind weather. Which is good because we may have snow in 3 days.