Sunday

 I am glad you guys had a fun weekend.  That is neat Luna got a bike.  She will love that.  We had a really good time backpacking and it was the most successful trip we have been on.  The kids carried their backpacks the whole time and we're happy.  They walked 6 miles each day.  Casey mapped.out how long it was and then tracked how long we had walked in his watch and they really liked that.  We made it to the place we wanted to camp by the river.  It was perfect and it was fun to take the kids there.  We were all tired so only Casey saw the shooting stars, the rest of us went to bed.  The night was rough because Oliver's legs hurt.  Then some cows were mooing loudly.  Tony got nervous and scratched a little hole in Casey brand new tent was sad.  All of our backpacks have whistles and we would whistle to each other when we would separate a bit.  It was fun.  Oliver found two horse shoes so he was really lucky.  We are going to hang them in the tree house.  I was proud of the kids for doing so well.  

Love Rachel