Fourth of July weekend at the cabin

We just got home from a WONDERFUL weekend up at our family cabin.
This post is picture heavy for Grandma and Grandpa Porter. We sure miss having you guys up there!

We spent LOTS of time outside.

Cady loved every minute of it!

Keegan LOVES the cabin too. It's hard to get him to go inside to eat or sleep.

We went on a couple of hikes.

Keegan needed a walking stick ... or several walking sticks ... as many as he could carry. He later filled his pockets with as many rocks as he could pick up. He wouldn't let us help him carry them.

Beautiful Columbine.

On another walk. Cadence loved the new view.

A mother duck with NINE babies swam up to us almost as soon as we got there. Thankfully I had some stale bread in the car just for occasions like this one. The ducks ate till they will full and then paddled off.

There were tiny little fish swimming in the stream.

Matt even got some work done :)

SWIMMING!!! Cadence is a water baby! She splashes with joy the whole time we are in the water. Keegan is quite the water kid too. He doesn't like getting his face or ears wet, but he loves to jump off the edge if someone is there to catch him.

Sunday, the 4th, we were debating on driving down the mountain to see fireworks, but decided that they started too late for the kids, so we didn't. But around 9:30 we heard some faint booms and looked out the window and could see the light from the fireworks. So we turned off all of the lights and just watched the colors in the sky. It was pretty neat. Later that night we had a spectacular thunder storm ... mother nature's fireworks.