Baby, It's Hot Out There!!!

Our view on our way to the top of the world!

Sisters almost on top of the world!
Sam hiked with Miss Savannah on her back! You go Girl!!!

Here we are: The Sweatballs!!!!

Seriously, we were a mess! I promise we brought Isaiah, but he was on Bonnie's back!!

These were brutal!!!!!! Especially with a baby on your back!!!

Here go the kiddos down the super scary stairs!

Bonnie and I going up the killer stairs! Yep, that's Izzy on Bonnie's back. She didn't bring any babies with her and she offered to carry one of ours!!!! Can you believe it???? That's a true friend!!!

The view made all that sweat worth it!!

Cooling off at Klootchy Creek!

Izzy throwing rocks in the river.

Sitting pretty

Looking for something in that water!

At the GIGANTO Sitka tree....check out those roots!!

Isn't it beautiful??? Now if only it had been 30 degrees cooler!!!

Trying to get a cute picture at the cool tree. Look how nicely the Ball children are waiting. Then look at those two goofy girls in the middle! What are you doing, you two???? Stand up straight!!! What? You can't???? Oh bother.....

Well, ok the girls are behaving now but Izzy is done. "I'm outa here!"

We are trying to beat the heat over here and thought we had a great idea for today........turns out it was a fun idea but not so good for keeping cool!

We went with the Ball family to Saddle Mountain to go hiking. Our logic was: it's at the beach, it will be so much cooler! Right? Wrong.

Neither of our families had ever been there. We will definitely go again when it's about 30 degrees cooler! It was gorgeous!!!

Besides the heat, there were approximately 588,997,890 flies landing on us constantly. Some of the time they would actually bite! Not so fun.

After we were all completely drenched with sweat, we drove over to Klootchy Creek ('m sorry, but I just love that name....Klootchy Creek.....so cute) and had lunch. Actually we just about passed out in the car from hunger, so we broke out the sandwiches while we were driving over there. The Ball family ate lunch while we jumped in the water! We were so HOT!!!!

The kids chased crawdads around, threw rocks and just enjoyed the water. I had to drag them away. We will be back Klootchy Creek, just you wait!