A Winter Walk

We went on a winter walk through the Cherry Creek Ecological Park

It was a sunny and very windy day. We were out-running a storm blowing in, but we wanted to get out, stretch our legs, and blow the stink off.

I am so glad we found this place. We had a lovely river walk near our apartment in Loveland, where we could let Charlie play and splash in the water, which is his absolute favorite thing to do. We have lots of great trails by our house, but none of them had running water, until now. Charlie must have really missed playing in water, cause he bee-lined it into the creek and no matter how hard Skyler pulled, Charlie was hellbent on getting wet. At first I thought Sky was just letting Charlie do it cause he thought it was funny, so I got mad because we were riding home in my car, but then I took the leash and realized charlie was a mad man on a mission every time we went near water. It was worth it though cause he was one happy puppy. 

Spring can't come fast enough, we're all dying to get out and explore. 

PANDA

Um, I think River likes his 3 foot Panda Bear . . . 

I have wanted to get River a panda bear forever. We love the Kung Fu Panda Movies, especially the Second one. Skyler is Panda. Watch the second movie, you'll see.

Anyways, when I found this Panda at a price too good to be true, it came home with us. Yeah, it's huge and awkward, but River sure loves to cuddle it.

Ska-doosh!

Retro Blogging

Playing some catch up, Here are links to some retro blog posts:

 July 10, 2013 : Uh-Oh Charlie, River plays back

Aug 2, 2013 : Summer Nights

Aug 31, 2013 : Splashing in Nana's Pool

Sept. 8, 2013 : NICU Reunion : Then & Now

Nov 1, 2013 : Little Monsters

C is for . . .

C is for Cookies!

C is for Charlie!

C is for Crawling under Tables!

C is for Cutie-Pie!

St. George UTAH : Our 5k and More

So we planned a trip to St. George to run in the Half Maraton/5k Race, We ran the 5k. My fun Parents met us down there and we had quite the adventure, which turned into an even bigger party when my brother Pete and his family arrived. We had a fun time, River had so much fun he never slept....day or night....no he definitely didn't sleep at night.... which meant neither did we...little stinker. Good thing he's so cute but he LOVED playing with his Nana and Grandpa. 

We hadn't been to St. george since we moved to Colorado, which was 3 years ago. We've really missed it. Funny we were looking at jobs at Skywest right after school so we could move down there, but Heaven;y Father had other plans. ;) But We were so Excited to go we made our List of Must- Dos and Did them:

1. Snow Canyon State Park : New hike to White Rock Amphitheater

My parents showed us a new hike in Snow Canyon that's awesome! This was River's first time hiking in a back pack and He LOVED it. He was laughing and chatting the whole time. Super Cute!

K, I thought the sign behind him said something about the trail, this was a photographer fail...

this is the beautiful white Sand dune waiting for us at the top of the hike.

Epic Face Plant . . .

River didn't seem to mind being covered in Sand, or a paste made of sand and sunscreen. 

NANA & GRANDPA!!

2. Ran our 5K Race.

We trained for a couple months for this, and I have to say I loved running in the race. We both did awesome cutting our training times down. Sky ran it in 34:20 and I ran it in 35:54. 

I'm really proud of us. :)

Here's my honey rocking it down the track.

You might be looking at this photo and asking yourself, "where is lindsey?" Well, I'm the one in the back chasing down these ladies.

See there I am!

Woohoo we got metals!! Wait everyone is wearing metals . . .but still Wooho!!

3. Slot Canyon Hike up in Leeds

Skyler's Secret "not-so-secret-anymore" hike.

4. Snow Canyon : Petrified Dunes Hike

We let River get out of the back pack and crawl around on the Red Rock. He crawled all over, stopping occasionally to pick up as many rocks as he could in one hand. Skyler and I want to help River explore and experience Nature. It's fun because he's finally big enough to get out and get dirty. Perhaps a little of his Dad's Hippiness will rub off on him. 

So tired, but fighting so hard.

Sippy cup break

River was so tuckered out, He fell asleep with his Hand in his Cheez-its. 

And My most anticipated activity of All:

5. MONGOLIAN BBQ!!

250 Red Cliffs Dr, St George, UT ; Open daily from 11am- 9pm

image via Yelp

If you've never been to the Mongolan BBQ place in the Red Cliffs Mall,
you are missing out and should remedy that ASAP. 

It's a family run business and it is delicious. I love picking out what I want and the service is amazing. They loved and River as soon as we went in. The sweet grandma gave him fortune cookies, warned me not to let him play with chopsticks cause it could hurt his eyes, and so sweetly giggled that River has Skyler's face and my ears. They made him origami frogs and rattles to play with. It mademe love it even more.

Yep it was an awesome trip. :)