Valentine's Day Hike

My Mom planned a Valentine's Day hike for whoever wants to go from the family. She did a New Year's one as well, but I didn't go to that one. Everyone was told to wear red or pink for pictures during the hike. Almost everyone got car sick on the ride up and was so grateful to finally arrive. My Mom had told us it was 45 minutes away. I didn't remember it being that short, but she was pretty insistent. We were supposed to pack a lunch/snacks for the hike, but no one did besides my Mom. She packed some for Katie and me as well, but I think she ended up passing most of her things around to all the hungry people that didn't bring anything :p

 I was glad my Grandma came with us. It's nice to have her on our trips =)

So thankful for my daughters. They're wonderful.

 This is how most of our hike went. I'm not sure if she got car sick, or if it was just because it was her nap time, but goodness she was not happy. It was really hard with her. Plus, she's getting heavier, so carrying her for 2 miles was no easy task either. Thankfully Lauryn helped too.

 Last time we went on the hike, we didn't get to go down below where the heart is. My Mom didn't think it was safe with the kids. This time, we did it anyway. It WAS tricky, and it was hard getting in there! But worth it when you get a picture out of it ;) Getting back out was a whole 'nother story! So funny trying not to slip in the wet gunk.

It was a pretty nice day, besides Emma's crankiness. We all dreaded the ride home though! I'm not sure we will ever willingly go back on that drive, haha.

Crestline "Heart Rock"

My Mom found a neat photographer "California Through My Lens" and he goes to cool places to eat, hike, explore. One of the places he blogged about was the Heart Rock and my Mom wanted to go. She said it was short, a mile each way or so, so we gave it a try. My oh my the carsickness. It was terrible. The winding hills. Ugh. Made me so sick.Then Emma cried for food when we got there, so I made her a bottle real quick while Katie and my Mom explored a little waiting for Emma to eat.

 We tried the backpack thingy for Emma, but I think she was too little still, because she was sinking in it. After 20 minutes or so I carried her in my arms instead.

 They had cool little blue painted hearts with arrows along the path to show you where to go, so you know you didn't get lost.

 This is as close as we could get to the Heart Rock. We got a little lost, and had just come up from a steep hill, when we realized we would have to go down another to get close to the heart. Which would have been easy, but we had two kids with us, so we didn't want to chance it.

 My Mom was nice enough to pack sandwiches and chips and cookies for us =)

 Katie asked if we could stop to take a picture on the way home. Love this girl.

The hike wasn't so bad, it was just the car ride that made me tell my Mom "No more far hikes!" haha.