What a fun weekend

We spent the day here, at Horton Creek !!!

A couple of weekends ago we spent the day at the Horton Creek and at the Tonto Fish Hatchery. This was suppose to be the last of the warm days so we really wanted to get out and do something before the weather really changed. The boys loved feeding the fish at the hatchery and racing each other to all of the different pools of fish. After the fish hatchery we drove to Horton Creek picnic area and had lunch. After lunch we all went down to the creek, of course Jordan brought his football and the boys played monkey in the middle with their dad. The game consisted of Trey standing on a rock in the middle of the creek and Willie on one side of the creek and Jordan on the other side of the creek. The game proceeds with the person in the middle trying to catch the football as it is thrown over their head, if the ball does get caught by the person in the middle (on the rock in the middle of the creek) then they trade places with the person you on the side of the creek.
As with many of the games played by my boys it got a little rough and lots of wrestling over the football took place. They boys loved it when the ball fell into the water and they had to race each other for the ball. While the boys did this Nick and I went exploring looking for bugs. Nick was so cute while we were walking through some tall dried grass he started repeating the words from one of his favorite books "were going on a bear hunt, we're not afraid".
Uh-uh! Grass!Long wavey grass.We can't go over it.We can't go under it.Oh no!We've got to go through it!

swishy swashy!

swishy swashy!

swishy swashy!

I love the picture of Jordan completely soaked from the waist down, the water was so freezing cold. We had so much fun here, I am hoping that we can make it up here and test out the Hortain Trail before it snows.