rock creek reservation

every weekend, ben runs a trail at the rock creek reservation, through the woods, around lake frank, across the meadows, past a lilypad-laden pond.  every week he tells us how beautiful it is out there.  so a few weeks ago, we were all up late saturday night, and next thing we knew, it was 10 am sunday morning and there was still no 'det up peez, mommy' in my ear.  needless to say, we missed church that morning ;-)  it was a gorgeous day though, so we decided to take a family hike out at daddy's running grounds.

chloe actually did quite a good job of walking, for the most part

the girls had to be dragged away from the stream.
they claimed to be panning for gold ;-)

the next week, daddy told us again that the leaves were at their peak and we should really go out to the lake.  so the girlies and i spent a lovely morning there:

daddy was right!