Mountain Fever in Spring

Despite the fact that Jon basically has salt water running through his veins, he admittedly loves the mountains too. Back in our climbing days, we would literally count the days till it was warm enough to go up to the mountains to climb. Now that we have kids we have kind of made it a family thing too. Last year we took Eden up to the mountains in the spring. Which, man is it a magical time up there this time of year! It is warm enough to climb and fish but you can still enjoy some snow. This was our most "productive" post kids mountain camping endeavor to date, which I think is saying a lot since it was our first time having two kids up there. We were able to climb, fish, ride bikes, sled, and snowboard (Jon & I took turns & each got to board for half a day). It really was a dream with many (minor) glitches along the way. One being that we forgot our camera battery and did not realize it until two-thirds of the way up so all we had was Jon's iPhone to take pics with the entire time. Another being that I shut the car door on Jon's fly-rod just before we all headed out to go fishing (so heart breaking). But there are so many things to remember and so many things to keep in order that we are very fortunate things went as well as they did. And I haven't even mentioned the kids yet and how much fun they had! I can't even put into words their pure joy over every minute of the trip. Therefore I have posted 1,000 pictures to depict it. 

Eden has Jon on belay

Classic Zion

Eden amping on arriving at camp

Zi's first bike ride!

I had to post a pic of Jon wearing the moby

Yes, one child is attempting to eat rocks, while the other attempts to wear Klamath's leash.

Eden took the fishing very seriously. She has told everyone who asks her about her trip that she caught fish on Daddy's pole but not her own. 

Eden and Jon fishing

Eden LOVED riding the gondola

Eden's favorite dollies

Jon setting up a top rope

Zi and his buddy on the trip

Eden showing Zion how to make smoothies in the woods

Special Moments & Wild Animal Park - Round Two

Eden began to forgo nap time some time ago. Recently I stopped fighting it. Frankly I do not have the energy or the time. So each day we push through to 6:30, and each day that she does not nap she is asleep at 6:30 on the dot. Tonight she fell asleep on my shoulder in her bed while I was reading to her Charlottes Web (her first big girl book). For some reason this was such a special moment for me. I can't remember the last time she fell asleep in my arms, I'm sure she wasn't much older than Zi.

Below are more pics from the Wild Animal Park. This time we rode the tram and fed the lorikeets. We had tons of fun, made all the more fun by the fact that all of Eden's cousins were there (on Jon's side). Eden was in heaven running around with all of them!

Easter

Easter this year was a lot of fun. Eden had so many Easter activities leading up to Easter that by the time Easter came she was just too excited to sleep. She woke up at 3:30am the day of Easter and just could not fall asleep again. Too funny that child of ours.

Zion had a good Easter too. It's kind of hard to say for sure, but I think I'm gonna go ahead and say that Zion crawled for the first time in his life, on Easter, at my parents house. If he was not crawling he sure was trying super hard, cause today he pretty much has it down.