playing at the park

Since daddy was gone today, the kids and I went to a little HOG group family picnic with grandpa Manning, it was nice for the kids to get a chance to see grandpa again after a few weeks of him being at work, and they got to have fun with the piniata, and toys. They also had a cool rock wall thing there, that matthew climbed. He was a little hesitant at first, but once he got started he did great, and he was so proud of himself for climbing to the top and hitting the red buzzer!!

here are some pictures of the whole thing...

here he is talking about how he is only gonna go "half way up"

getting a lesson in how exactly this all works:

Getting a help up to the first few steps:

Heading up:

And up....

Almost to the top!:

So proud of himself!!!:

and just for fun, here is one of samantha just hanging out:, she thought it was "tooo hot!!!" such a girlie girl!!