This Is Kristin

This weekend we packed up our car and headed to Missouri, for a couple days of being away from the normal routine. A friend of ours invited us to stay in their cabin and play on their 400 acres of land.

We arrived at dusk, the boys jumped out of the car and ran and ran.

Brody made a huge bonfire, and we roasted marshmellows, a first for our boys to experience.

The next day we rode 4 wheelers, hiked through the woods, Blue drove an actual tractor, and got really really muddy. Initially I had thought I’d stay back with Cooper, and hang out, but Brody convinced me that I should go on a ride with him. While practicing driving the 4 wheeler, I avoided every bump, and mud track, stayed on the driest, flatest places I could find. Then Brody said “follow me,” and off we went into the woods. We drove up mountain sides, through a river, through fields of wheat, and straight into giant mud puddles. It was a totally thrilling experience, I don’t think I stopped smiling the entire time.

While we were out in the middle of this land, with no phones at all, Brody and I were trying to cross this very muddy area. After looking at it for awhile we determined a place that we thought was most shallow. Brody went at it fast, expecting to plunge right through, the 4 wheeler went up, then straight down, stuck down in the mud. I backed up. Thankfully the 4 wheeler I was riding had a metal rope hooked to the front of it, that is apparently made for this sort of thing, so Brody hooked it up to the back of his, and after a few tries, we pulled his out, and found another way around.

Scattered throughout the land are very old barns and buildings, one which l immediately called, “Jacobs house.” (If you are a LOST fan, you may agree that it looks like that!)

The goal of the weekend was to get away together as a family, disconnect from everything else, and just have fun together. We loved watching the boys run, play and explore. We have been talking about going out and doing something like this kind of thing, but have always felt the boys were too young. We don’t have any more babies, we have boys that like to get dirty and run and play and explore. It feels like we have started a new stage- the family adventure stage, and that we can now introduce the boys to hiking and camping, to bonfires and new experiences, I love it.

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