On Sunday morning when GiGi was here we decided to skip church and head up to Bridal Veil Falls. It was a super short hike and it was lots of fun with the girls!
The waterfall is at the top then the water continues to cascade down the rocks at the bottom. It was amazing that this is just a half mile hike from the parking lot!
Mom took Hannah down on the rocks to play with her "walking stick" in the water!
Michael took both the girls out onto a rock in the middle of the water. He got his feet and jeans wet in the process, but they loved it!
Here is a full view of the falls, with mom and Rachel:
And Hannah and Michael in front:
The view if you turn around away from the falls, incredible both directions!
Here is an unobstructed view of the falls:
On the hike up, this is the preview you get of what is to come!
Walking down the path to have a picnic! :)
Here are the best (out of 254 mind you), not overly impressive, but cute if you don't care that your kids are not looking at the camera! :)
We thought maybe we would have better luck with individual pics of the kids, and we got a few good ones that way:
This is one of my favorites even though it is obviously not "frame worthy" for the house. It totally sums up how they acted the whole time. Rachel making every funny face in the book and being silly and Hannah giving us the "cheese" we kept asking for while totally distracted by everything else going on around her! I have over 200 pics that if I could put in a flip book or turn them into a movie would have you laughing for hours! 
Then, I played with one of the free apps on my phone and came up with these! :)
This one is now totally frame worthy:
Rachel was having lots of fun eating outside:
Here is the view of the deck from the parking lot! Such a cute place to eat!
Then we saw it happen, she snuck a few more in her mouth when no one was watching. We caught her eating at least three after we realized she should have been done with the half already! No telling how many she actually ate!
We had Glenn and Yolonda over for dinner and cake. I realized that I didn't have any plain candles, but I had a 1 from Rachel's birthday and a 2 from Hannah's so we decided to make her 21! :) Since we had extra carmel left over after putting it in the middle, we decided to add the rest on top! It was seriously delicious! 
She blew out the candles and we got to eating! It was really good and now I plan on making some other minor adjustments and trying it again in the near future! 
This also gave GiGi a chance to watch Rachel eat cake since she missed the birthday party! I think she may have like it too! 
Michael snuck up behind Hannah and scared her right before this picture was snapped! 
And Rachel cried on the same rock, like I mentioned, she was not having a great day...
I love this picture!
Hannah called this tree stump her new home!
She was determined to have Rachel come live there too, but she wasn't going for it!
We decided to take one of the hikes off the Silver lake path. We headed up the trail to Solitude Lake, but never made it. We were very slow moving since Hannah needed to climb on every rock we saw and Rachel started losing it, then we hit snow and decided we had seen enough of the beauty God created and headed back down. Maybe in a year or two the girls will be big enough to do more hiking!
