The Calming Affect

I'm not sure what it is

If it's the cooler weather

The fresh air

Just being outside

Or

Just being up in the mountains

But

Whenever we head up the mountains

Hunter seems to calm right down

He sits in the truck

His nose right up to the window

And looks at EVERYTHING

He. Loves. It. Up. There.

On this day, all we did was go for a ride

We got out of the car several times 

Once to throw rocks into the lake

Which is a MUST for Hunter and Paizlei

We also stopped in several locations

To pick some pretty leaves

Of course

Paizlei had to search for every pink leaf she could find

 Hunter on the other hand

Didn't care much what color he picked

And chose to have Daddy cut his leaves

Right from the tree.

We also stopped to carve our initials in a tree

Zane and I have been doing this

Ever since we were dating

We have LOTS of trees up 12 Mile

With our initials

And the year

This trip up on the mountains

We got to add the initial "C"

For our sweet Cooper

And last

But definitely not least

We stopped to take several pictures

Of our cute family

In the first two

Cooper was peacefully asleep

And I didn't want to disturb him

So we waited to until he woke up

To get some pictures with him included