park days

We go to the park. A lot. Pretty much every day. Well, every day that it is warm enough. Which lately, has ended up being a lot. So.... Park picture overload is about to happen.
Zion loves the little playground in our neighborhood...











And the slide at the park by my parent's house is his favorite...

















He also likes to swing at that park, especially if his aunt Cyd is in town and there to push him, because she let's him go higher than mommy and daddy....









But I think the Spanish Fork North Park takes the cake. There are just so many things do do there...





























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feeding ducks

We took Zion to feed the ducks a couple weeks ago. It was a massive failure. It started out fine...












But it only took him about 2 minutes to decide it would be more fun to swim with the ducks than feed them. We spent the rest of the time trying to keep him out of the water and ended up just taking our ticked off little toddler home. I don't think we will try that again for a while.




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visiting cyd & zion's national park

In February we decided to go on a little road trip down to Cedar City to see aunt Cyd and head into Zion's National Park to do some hiking. Heather came with us but she didn't want to hike so she stayed in Cedar and hung out with Cyd's friends while we went into the park for the day. I absolutely love Zion's! It is my favorite place. It is so gorgeous and peaceful and has the coolest energy about it. Plus, it's where me and Zac were at when we decided to get married and where our little boy's name comes from. We have been hiking and biking in Zion's sooooo many times but this time was the best, by far, because it was the first time we took our little Zion with us. We had so much fun! The first hike we did was called Weeping Rock. It's only about a half mile but it is really steep. Zion hiked the whole thing on his own!




He tried to jump off the trail a couple times but aunt Cyd has ninja like reflexes and saved him from the huge cliff he would have tumbled down.




At the top of Weeping rock




Zion loved finding rocks with Cyd








On our way back down




It was so funny to watch Zion figure out how to keep his balance hiking up and down such a steep hill. I was so proud of him for doing it all on his own. A half mile hike is quite a distance for a 1.5 year old. After we finished that little hike we went on to Emerald Pools. Zion was getting tired so we put him in the pack for that hike and he was out cold pretty dang quick. I'm so happy that he loves his pack and will fall asleep in it so easily. It makes our hiking adventures so much easier. I can hardly wait for summer and all of the hiking we are going to be doing.




















PS... I can't believe it was warm enough to be hiking in February!
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hair

I guess I better show my evolution of hair over the past couple months, because it's a pretty big deal for me. I have always been blonde. Always. I've put a few low lights in my hair here and there but never done anything drastic. Well, in January I was itching for a change. I have always wanted really dark hair but never dared to do it. I don't know what came over me but one day I just decided to go for it. I called and scheduled an appointment. I went from this...


To this...


Which I thought was a gorgeous color, but a little too red for me and I wanted it even darker. So I went back a week later and went to this...


Bingo! That was the color I wanted! I LOVED it! Aren't my sisters the cutest, by the way? Anyway, two weeks later my roots were already growing out and driving me crazy. My regrowth was so light I looked like I was going gray. I realized I was going to have to go get my hair colored every 3-4 weeks if I wanted to keep it looking good. Sadly I realized that gorgeous dark hair just wasn't going to work for me. So, I'm now in the process of lightening it back up. I've been trying everything to get some of the dark color to fade out, including washing it with dish soap, saturating it with conditioner and leaving it in over night, and using some nasty smelling product called ColorFix that is supposed to help pull permanent hair dye out. I've also had bleached highlights put in twice in the last month. My poor hair has seen better days. I'm having to put tons of CHI silk infusion oil in it everyday just to bring it back to life and help with the over processed dryness. It now looks like this...



And this is how it's going to stay unless I want to end up bald. I actually really love it this color. In fact, I think it might be my favorite. It's kind of the best of both worlds. Blonde and brown and the regrowth will be really easy to maintain because it's not a solid color.

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aquarium

We took Zion to the Living Planet Aquarium a little while back. He absolutely LOVED it! We just let him run wild and lead the way. I love that he is so confident and independent. We ran in circles, and always ended up back at the penguins. He thought they were the coolest thing ever!

















No matter how hard we tried, we could not get him to look at the camera. He was just in awe of everything the whole time. I'm pretty positive this is a place we will be going back again soon.

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snow day

I have pretty much fallen off of the BlogLand the last few months. I've posted a few of the big things that have been going on, but I've left out so many of the small things that need to be documented. Like Zion's first time playing in the snow. Yes, I realize it is now April and winter for the most part has pretty much passed by, but I say better late than never. I'm kind of sad that we didn't get more of a winter this year. Zion loved the snow and looked so cute dressed up in his gear.











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