Walk in the Canyon

I have been going through some serious camping withdrawals this summer. I've missed being in the mountains, so Saturday I made Gary drive us up Payson Canyon so we could go on a little walk to the Grotto. It was a lot of fun. In fact, Gary enjoyed it so much that we did it again Sunday afternoon! It was perfect weather and really pretty up there. Sydney especially loved it and surprised us by getting in the water.

We had to be careful not to let Josh get too far ahead of us because he wasn't afraid at all to cross the little bridges all by himself!

A cute picture of my boys getting all rested up before we went to the Grotto. Tigger is a nice touch too!

For Mother's Day Josh and Gary gave me this chair. Gary wanted me to have a comfortable place to sit and still be able to enjoy being outside during the summer despite being pregnant. It has really been nice to sit down and put my feet up while Josh swims in the pool or plays in the back yard. We've had a lot of sword fights at our house. I don't know what we'd do without Josh's swords or bow and arrow since those seem to be his most favorite things to play with. He was pretty smart to figure out how to use his belt as a sword holder all by himself! Last week I took Josh to the dentist. He really didn't enjoy the experience all that much, but he did pretty good for a three year old. For weeks he's been running around the house with an imaginary bow and arrows, and then I saw one at Walmart. In an effort to distract him from the not so fun dentist experience I took him to Walmart to get the bow and arrows and I have to say it worked beautifully. He has played with the bow all day every day since. Now I just need to find some spare arrows since he's already broken two of the three that it came with!