Live In the Moment

And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less” (Elder Ballard’s talk May, 2008 quote by Author Anna Quindlen speaking of her children)

- I put this on here to remind me to take time to enjoy the little things in life, or to enjoy the moments that make some of Life's Precious Memories.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Jones Family Reunion Hike

We went on a hike at Tonto Natural Bridge and at first we were all going to hike the short part and I was going to take the two younger kids back while everyone else took the harder trail. Well, we started our little hike and low and behold what I thought was the "easy" trail was actually the "hard" trail and we all just kept going. There was a little bit of climbing involved and times where we were very nervous about one of our kids slipping and falling. But it was fun. If you take young kids you'll almost need an adult per kid and so hiking it with my family was just perfect. 4 kids to 7 1/2 adults (my 11 year old brother was quite helpful as well, see.) I had offers to take help me with the baby, but I felt safer with her right there in front of me. 

Here's Kristina quite comfortable in her carrier.
 Nathan at the bottom of the trail making sure Rebecca doesn't fall into the water as she throws rocks in.

 Team work in getting the kids through the hike.
 Looking down to where we'd been. There was a little hole that we could look through to see the lake underneath the natural bridge.
 Two super cute hikers.

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