Great wide open

This is just a blog about the arboretum. We have an awesome arboretum just a short drive from our house. Grandma and Granddad have given us a membership as a family Christmas gift the past two years. I love that on any given day I can just pack the boys in the car and every time you go you can do something different. The boys just love that they can run and run and climb and explore without too many boundaries. Here are some photos from a few visits this summer.

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Jackson & Peyton in the bush mazes. There are some areas where the bushes are higher than them and they are really into playing hide and seek so we can spend a good hour just running around in this area. Some areas even fit Brett's wheel chair and he loves when I hide him and his brothers can't find him.

Snack time! There are chipmunks that have no fear and will come right up and take food right from you - the boys love it and fear it all at the same time.

Brett loves the feel of the water rushing over his feet and the sound of the water moving over the rocks. I swear he would spend a whole day just sitting just like this.

Jackson and Peyton exploring the "river".

 There is a whole area of forts and climbing ropes.

There is a newer portion where they have built "forts" in and around the trees. Here are just a few. The pirate ship and castle.