We went hiking somewhere new this weekend – the James T. Slavin Conservation Area Park. Mom says living in Spokane is like being on a long vacation because there are so many great places to hike and explore.

There were so many birds to hear and see!  There were cheeps and tweets and squwaks and quacks and much more!  We saw an osprey dive down and catch a fish!

Look at these awesome pink flowers growing right out of the rocks!  On this hike we discovered a fun way to make chocolate peanut clusters!  Here is the recipe: Mix up a plastic ziploc bag of your favorite trail mix with peanuts and raisins whatever else you like and add chocolate chips. Put the ziploc baggie in your backpack. Then go hiking when the temperature is near 90 degrees. Look at the trail mix during the hike but don’t eat any. It would be a big chocolatey mess!  Come home and bring the backpack in the air conditioned house with the trail mix in it. The next day you will have peanut clusters!!

Also in the news is that we got our sprinkler system going!!!  Mom says this is the best invention EVER!  We got the programming all figured out so it runs automatically but we still like to go out and run it manually to see the sprinklers pop up and down and water the different zones in the yard.  It is fantastic!!! Plus we get to play in the sprinklers yayyyy!