Fun with Friends at Nature Center

We are enjoying our Summer, a time to be outside and spend time together with family and friends. We went to the nature center with our good friends the Stulls this week. The kids had lots of fun together. Here is the whole crew in the tree together!
Jackie and Katie got these cattails out of the swampy water with sticks. They carried them all through the hike and were sad when we only let them bring the sticks home in the car.
They all want to see what is in that murky water.
Elly is getting hold enough to start playing with Brea, so cute!
Johnny and Brea are quite the hilarious pair. We gets lots of laughs from watching them.

Dallin found a cactus on the hike. He remembered that we told him once that you can eat the inside of cactus. So he GRABBED it trying to get to the inside. He came running to me with his hand full of thorns - OUCH. There was probably 30 thorns in his thumb alone, they were all over his hand. Luckily they were small and soft, but some got in pretty deep and those hurt to pull out. He was a trooper, and helped pull them out himself. I don't think he will try that again.