The Hike

On Monday we took a hike right above our house. It was so much fun, I didn't know that a place so beautiful was just a few blocks up the street. After hiking up the front of the mountain for about 1/2 mile we entered a small little canyon thatwas so pretty. There were so many trees and rock ledges and birds. I do have to admit that I did let my worries take over every now and then (I worry a lot) I would look up toward the cliffs on the mountainside and would see in my head mountain lions peering down at us waiting to leap on their prey. Oh, I am so pathetic. These worries all started a few years ago when we were up at my in-laws cabin and it was late at night and everybody was asleep, except for me because I am a very light sleeper. I was laying in bed and I heard some weird grunting noises and then a splash in the small pond behind the cabin. At first I thought it was probably the mommy moose and her baby we had seen earlier that day. I decided to take a look out the window and when I did I saw two huge bears crawling out of the pond. It was very exciting, but also kinda scary because we hike and play outside all the time up there, and now all I think about is that there are bears in the area so I am constantly looking and listening whenever we are there. Kind of ruins the fun. Anyway we didn't get attacked by any mountain lions or any other wild animal, nor did we even see any animals. We made it to the top to a beautiful pond and water fall. It was about 1 1/2 mile hike uphill and Eden made it the whole way by herself, she was so proud of herself. Even I made it without getting winded, which made me excited. It was proof the going to the gym is actually paying off. Here are the pictures from the fun night:

Eden Making wishes


Asher cleaning out his mouth after sucking in his wish maker (dandelion) instead of blowing out


Asher still trying to get out the last of the fuzz and asking for Dad's assistance.


oops, I lied. We did see a wild animal. And here is the proof. See that hairy caterpiller on the stick? ooh, he was ugly. Eden wouldn't touch him and Asher couldn't stop touching him.

There are people out there

I just downloaded a stat counter on my blog (notice the little numbers on the bottom of the page), there are people that visit my cyber world, it's not just me popping in to look at my own creation. right now the counter says "8" one of those is me, so that means there are 7 people that visited since last night, that excites me and motivates me to post more. Who are you though and why don't you leave a comment so I know you visited? Even though I visit a lot of blogs and I hardly ever leave comments, because most of the blogs I visit don't have a clue of who I am. I just really like looking into other people's lives. I told my husband last night I was a cyber-stalker, he looked at me really weird and said I was crazy, I just laughed and went on with my list of blogs to visit. It is kind of addicting and pretty lame. Anyway, "HELLO" to those of you that visit, drop by anytime whether I know you or not.

Sunny Days!

The weather has been so nice. I have been loving it. It is so nice to sit on the grass and watch the kids play and hopefully get some sun on my snow white skin. Last friday I took the kids to my mom's house and they played in the little swimming pool. I am thinking that this was A's first time enjoying water outside. He loved drinking out of the hose, and throwing toys in the pool, and trying to dump water on E, but he didn't like getting in the pool he thought it was too cold. It was so fun, it brought back a lot of memories of my childhood,I remember so clearly always scraping my legs on the edge of those little plastic pools
Ouch!

SLACKER

Yes, that is me, an A+ Slacker!
I wish I could say I haven't posted anything because I have been travelling the world to many exciting places, or I have been involved in filming a very interesting documentary on the lives of SAHM's, or maybe even I cleaned my entire house from attic to basement and everything is spotless. Yeah, none of those things happened, the truth is.....I got very addicted to a book that took over my life for an entire two weeks. It was all I could think about and I couldn't/wouldn't do anything but read this book. Well, that was about 4 weeks ago and I STILL haven't gotten back into the routine of my daily life. All I want to do is play with my kids (which isn't bad right?), surf the internet, and look for new books to read. Everything is suffering, especially my bathrooms-YUCK! Hopefully today is my turn around day and I can get back in the life of being a SAHM and take care of my responsibilities. Maybe tomorrow I will post some pictures of my progress.

All Dressed Up......

With my kids (and my nieces) all dressed up for Easter I had this vision in my head of gorgeous pictures with beautifully dressed children acting perfectly. I wish I could have portrayed what was in my head through my pictures none the less this is what I got.........

Too Funny!

I was going through some of my old pictures and came across this one, I laughed so hard. It's kinda wierd because when I took it back in January all I noticed was the bad light, the high ISO noise and I couldn't stand that the top of his head was chopped off -I never noticed the hilarious expression and crazy messed-up hair. I really do need to stop and enjoy my lemonade! hahaha

A Conference Break

Kids bring a challange to watching General Conference, in fact I don't know if it is possible, has anyone found a trick to keeping them occupied during a session? Thanks goodness for TiVo. After what felt like a WWF wrestling match during the sunday morning session, Cache and I thought we would take the kids to the park for a picnic and kite flying. The weather was cool, but nice and the kids enjoyed being out of the house.

Here is Eden with her impression of the kite, she wanted it to fly like the birds.

She did the monkey bars on her own for the first time and was so proud of herself. Can you see the terror on her face? She is complaining of sore arms today.

Asher thought it was great to be able to run and slide and be free from the confines of the house.

I thought this picture was cute of Cache and Asher, they have so much fun together.

As we returned home to watch the afternoon session Asher was tired enough to take a nap and Eden was content to watch a movie downstairs by herself. Cache and I enjoyed a great session, and especially enjoyed the peace and quiet.