Our "Almost Fall" Hike

You may remember in the spring the kids and I made the 30-40 minute drive to Arbor Hills Nature Preserve. It is amazing and I could not wait to go in the fall and see how pretty the trees would look. Well, I was pretty sure most of them would still be green, but since a few are starting to change just a bit, I wanted to make sure and get a trip there with the nice cool weather we have had this week. Plus, Lorelei was supposed to find 5 fall leaves to bring to school on Thursday.

Brad was switched back to the maintenance shift aka nights at work. They are very short-staffed on that team. So, we are trying to make this a GOOD thing and get him plenty of sleep, along with some amazing fun family time during the day and we had an absolutely wonderful time together today. Based on this day, this whole temporary nights thing could be fun for a bit! :)

They LOVED looking for leaves, following the dirt trails and trying to skip rocks. Lorelei always has her eyes out for paw prints and we lucked out finding some prints that were in the cement! :) And of course, pet three friendly dogs along the way. :)

We took a break and ate our packed lunch along the trail, and soon after finished off a wonderful morning spending a while at the playground. Makin did make it a long ways before needing a lift! :)

We plan to go back in a couple weeks to see the full fall foliage! :)