A Perfect Family Day-Hamilton Pool

On April 27th Jay planned a family day for us at Hamilton Pool.    This was one of those rare days where the sky was perfectly blue, the birds were singing and everything was just perfect.  That morning I made a big breakfast and then we ran by the farmers market to get some of the kids favorite kombucha. Hamilton Pool is about an hour away so we had a nice drive with some great conversations with the boys.

Once we arrived we went on about a 2 mile hike.
Here’s Jay showing the boys a big spider hanging from a web.

Me with my sweet bigs.

This place was so beautiful!  We couldn’t swim in the pool (pictured below) because there was too much debris from all of the recent rain. 

Gorgeous scenery.

Jackson picked out his own clothes for the day. . .can you tell?

Lincoln was a serious trooper.  We left the house around 10ish and didn’t get home until after 7.

My 4 loves.

There was also a lake where we could swim.

Jay was incredibly nervous about the boys wanting to go swimming spontaneously in their clothes but I encouraged him to live on the edge and let them go in.  There were a bunch of kids in their undies swimming.  We originally had planned to bring swim suits but called and found that the pool was closed and didn’t know about the lake.  Thus the lack of proper supplies.

The boys had such a great time and were thrilled that Jay reconsidered and let them swim.

Then Jay turned super crazy fun dad and got in the water with the kids.

We had planned on being home by dinner but had spent far more time than anticipated having fun and decided to stop on our way home.  Dinner out with the boys was wonderful. . .and it’s not always like that.  The waiter even commented on how well behaved the kids were—perhaps because we were all starving from our day of hiking and fun.  But whatever the reason, it was a very much needed relaxing day of nature and fun with the family. 

What a blessing of a perfectly perfect day!