The Holy Hill explorers

We took a belated fall trip to Holy Hill… only one weekend too late for the peak fall colors, but beautiful, non-the-less.  Andrew loved putting the frisbee on his head, even for praying the stations.

We all tried to climb the tower to the top, but had some issues along the way.  Daddy is a bit afraid of heights, as is mommy, especially with a wiggly toddler in arms who could fling himself out and over the huge drops over the stairs.  Makes my toes curl to think of it even now.  All of the bigger boys didn’t notice the height until they were all up there.  Luke leaned over to Scott and said, “Can we go now?  I’m scared”  Scott was only too happy to accommodate him.

We had a little picnic snack before we went trekking around in the woods 

The boys found this cool tree that had fallen.

Our family explorers!  They were very proud of themselves for climbing to the ‘top’ of the tree.  It wasn’t very far off the ground, but enough to be a challenge for the little ones.

The best part of the tree was the roots that were sticking up at the base.  They had taken some ground with them when it fell and the result was a hole in the ground.  Patrick was brave enough to go in…  

and come out the other side!

Luke got to try, too.  Luckily, a family of skunks hadn’t found the little cubby hole before our boys did!  Yay, nature!