Sterling does a decent amount hiking with the scouts since he's the Scout Master of our ward. After his last hike with the scouts, we decided to take the boys on a hike. And there is no better place to go than Shenandoah National Park. We had driven through there before in the fall, and that's where Sterling went black bear hunting, but we'd never taken the boys hiking all together before. We talked it up all week and the boys were super excited to go on Saturday morning.
We found a good trail that was one mile up and one mile back with a pretty good incline. We started out having the three big boys walk and I carried Israel in the carrier. We hoped that Gouverneur could make it the whole way, but we weren't entirely sure. He took off and never looked back! He was all business.
The view from the top was pretty amazing. You could see all around and the boys really loved it.
Sometimes it's still hard to imagine that one day these little boys are going to grow up to be big men like their dad. They all look so small in these pictures. I'd like to keep them this size forever if I could.
Here we are at the car after we'd finished. The boys did such a great job and were really worn out.
