La Cueva Trail Hike...

We had a fabulous day hike up the La Cueva Trail to a mountain lake. Matt had thought this lake was only 1 mile up. Well, it ended up being slightly further. Like 3 miles further. So in all our little ones walked 8 miles and it wasn't an easy hike. But so worth it. Look at this lake... So beautiful! We think it would be a great place to do some backpacking camping. We didn't see a soul on the whole hike. Fabulously peaceful!

Our little family, very relieved to have made it...

On our way up.. there were no tears yet.. :)

Look at them go.. They went so fast..

Ahhh, the easy way to hike, well for Tiny A anyway. :)

Uh, can we say beautiful?

Trying a little fishing at the high mountain lake.

Lunch...

Made it down... Do you notice that two of my little ones do not have shoes on. Yeah, blisters really stink. The kiddos wore sandals because their shoes were wet and we thought that the hike was only 1 mile. No biggie, right?
Well, once the blisters were there it was just easier to go with no shoes. Don't worry it was nice squishy mud. And when there were rocks they rode on my back since Matt's was already occupied.

My brave little barefoot kiddos. mmm... I love 'em!

The rain was starting and we could hear the thunder and we had to head all the way down.. Here is where some tears started to roll. We are a family who doesn't really like Lightening storms. But we made it. A lot of prayers and lots of singing got us down without too much drama.