This week in our lives....

Brian and I started the weekend off with a great date up the canyon. We use to hike a lot, and to be honest, it's been a while. I loved it. It's always beautiful when you can get away from the city and be in nature. Grandma and Grandpa Beutler watched Jackson for us for a couple of hours. The time just flew by, before we knew it, we had be gone 3 hours! It was great!
Hiking with Brian means never hiking on a well known path or trail. We basically bush-whack our way through things, and that's half the fun. This one was straight up a mountain river bed, half the time our feet in water (why didn't I wear my montrels? I should have known better)! But because we don't use the typical path, we get to see some gorgeous sites that not many others get to enjoy. Can you see my baby bump? 5 months prego!!

Next, we took Jackson to the Zoo. This was his second time, but probably his first interaction that he enjoyed the animals and things. We didn't take too many pictures of this because I'm not one for taking pictures of animals behind cages...but the elephants and the giraffes were his favorite! He was fascinated by how big they were, and the tongue of the giraffe as it tried to get leaves off of a tree. It was a short stay at the zoo...hot and crowded, but it was good enough for us. We got our fill of the zoo for a while...

Finally, we had a BBQ up the canyon with some friends. Luckily, Ethan's sister was smart enough to bring a bunch of balls to play with...Jackson was in Heaven! He is such a boy and loved this little t-ball set. He'd be happy with just placing the ball on the stand, but of course, dad had to show him how to really hit! I think they both loved it.