Field Trip

Hudson's elementary school's philosophy is more hands which includes more field trips than!  His January field trip was up to Mt. Spokane for some snow shoeing!  Apparently Summit owns their own set of snow shoes and this is an annual field trip.  I was excited to tag along this year!  I rode the bus up to the mountain with the kids.  Kindergartener's are too funny!

Thumbs up dude!

First, Mrs. Termath had to explain the directions and expectations.  We were with a first grade group as well.  They were our leaders:).

The hike was all uphill.  Ugh.  Not feeling super well and needing to eat more food but I couldn't, my energy was low. Plus these adorable kindergartners keep losing their snow shoes so there was a lot of picking kids up, putting on snow shoes over and over again.  I was exhausted!

Here we were with a little break.  This is one of Hud's classmates and friend's son:).

Getting Hudson to smile normal that day was a test!

Hiking up the trail!
It has been a low snow year but the trail had plenty for us to hike up.

For some reason, Hudson took it upon himself to race this friend and got VERY UPSET if he was behind him.  The trail was narrow so these two were like running up the trail.  I trudged along and kept up best I could.

Mommy and Hud pic

That smile!

Since the hike was uphill, the way back was downhill...HORAY!  Hudson was running in his snow shoes the whole day down.  Aww to have that energy again:).  

We ate lunch at the Selkirk Lodge.  I never even knew lodge was up there for cross country skiers, snow shoes, snow mobiles, it was nice and big enough for our whole group:).    The kids were very tired by the end of the lunch.  The bus ride home seemed like an eternity and they were getting restless.  Hudson still wanted Gigi and Gpa to pick him up so I headed home early.

We had plans to go out to eat for Jared's birthday as a family but I came up and found Hud doing this

So I let him sleep for a bit.  Then I woke him up so he could sleep that night and we snuggled and watched a movie.  He did end up with a mild fever.  Poor little guy.

Just another sick weekend in the Haak House this winter.

I'm so glad I've had the opportunity to take part of his friend trips this year.  It's funny to watch him in his school environment:).  He's a bit silly and such a boy.  I love it!  I had a great time connecting with other parents in the class and meeting his buddies.  So fun to be in kindergarten!