*WARNING* I may have gotten a little carried away with the picture posting. Maybe you can think of it as a really slow video of the day.
I'm not a huge fan of church on Mother's Day so for the past few years we've skipped church (gasp!) and it has become our unrighteous tradition to go hiking and out for Mexican food.
Eli was super excited to have a reason to wear his fanny pack.
This is a picture of Edge and Wesley eating an egg salad sandwich at 10:00 am that they bought from a vending machine. I don't even know where to start. Oh, wait, yes I do.
FROM A VENDING MACHINE!!!
Gross.
It was very lovely and deserty at ye old Boyce Thompson Arboretum.
Right after we got there we noticed smoke. Turns out there was a big fire. (Which, later in the day, would cause us to have to take a 3 hour detour on the way home. Sweet.)
For a while Eli held on to the camera.
It was fine until I noticed that he was taking pictures of things like signs that say "Gay". (Because, you know, he's 12.)
And giant spiderwebs (because, you know, he's a boy.)
There were also like 50 shots that seemingly had no focal point.
He just loves nature.
The arboretum has an interesting Aboriginal Outback area, which I have to say left me a little puzzled, I probably could have read the signs for an explanation but it was Mother's Day, which = DAY OFF. So I didn't.
But, hey, look! Really big Australian trees!
Bless his heart. Wesley was trying so hard not to text during family time, but some important business came up and he was FORCED to.
I believe the sign said this is an old shack used by hillybillys to make moonshine. But I was just skimming that sign (day off) so I could be wrong.
This is me begging for a normal picture.
With no luck.
Mother's Day ROCKS!
