Martin Nature Park

With possibly our first free weekend so far this summer, we had plans to find something new to do. We settled on Martin Nature Park after reading lots of recommendations for it. We fueled up with a Johnnie's breakfast and stopped at home for water and Porter's current travel companion-his potty chair. 

Since Paxton had to go to the bathroom as soon as we got there, we stopped at the visitor's center. There were some animals in there that the boys loves looking at. Porter thought the prairie dogs and the turtles were amazing. 

After that, we hiked a little and made it to the creek. We missed the warnings not to swim or wade and the boys had a blast. 

We ran into Jared's friend, Brett, and Porter was so cute with his little girl, Violet. He kept asking her what her name was and if she wanted to swim with him. Her dad told her they weren't allowed to do that...and then as we meet, we passed a park ranger going down to yell at people in the water...so apparently we broke the rules but we had a blast!