nine sides of sunday

The theme for this week's nine sides of sunday was spring. I wanted to take the kids on a field trip to Dripping Springs to take pictures. I thought it would be a good play on words: spring [season] and spring [source of water]. Once we got there, I realized that it was a three mile hike on a rough and rocky trail. No strollers! That is a little too far to go with seven kids and no help. So, we drove to the picnic site at La Cueva just down the hill. After a picnic lunch, we tried the trail.

Let me start by saying that we hiked less than a mile and it took us an hour and a half. Mia ended up carrying Echo or holding his hand. I carried the stroller. Mica held on to Johnny and we climbed up and slipped down a hundred times. That was the longest walk of my life! We didn't even make it to the actual cave. It was a lot of fun and I'll go back with the older kids, but it definitely wasn't toddler friendly.

Kristy: I liked all the curly white things!

Mike: He had to work, so we took this one for him.

Mia: You said spring!

Mica: The new plants are growing around the old dead tree.

Mikal: Everything starts growing and getting green.

Bleu: This is a picture of my mom's calendar. Flowers are for spring.

Butterfly: The cactus is green because it is spring and the rock is really big.

Johnny: the bush is growing.

Echo's little flower.