Girls Night Out at New Heights

For our girls night out this month, one of my friends suggested we go on a hike. Sure, I was up for a hike...sign me up I said. I keep forgetting I'm pregnant though...(that is until I see a picture of myself or feel the lovely sciatic pain in my legs). We had a great time though and amazingly, my body cooperated and didn't give me too much trouble on the hike - or even afterwards for that matter. Even better. After the hike, we had ice-cream sundaes. Kind of ruins the point of all the exercise we got on the hike though, huh. No worries though. The ice-cream was most delicious.

We also went to the Davis Fair as a family this week. Kimberly entered her bug collection she has been working on for a year now. She was hoping she would get a blue ribbon, so in typical mom-like fashion, I told her that a lot of people entered stuff and so she may just get a participation ribbon...blah, blah - you know, trying to help my daughter be prepared for disappointment, just in case. My lecture was unneeded however because she got a first place ribbon for her entry. How exciting!

She wasn't too thrilled about getting her picture taken though.

You should have seen the poor lady that entered all her information when we dropped off Kimberly's entry. She opened up the box lid to see what exactly was inside, and about did a flip back in her chair as she slapped the lid back down and informed us that she hates bugs. It still makes me chuckle thinking about her reaction. I hate bugs too, but for the love of my daughter my attitude has changed. In fact, I saw the coolest stink bug on my hike last night and wished I had an empty jar on hand so I could take it back to Kimberly. Boy, times sure have changed because that definitely would not have been in my thought processes over a year ago!

Of course the fair would never be the same without the free pony rides.

Don't worry - John stayed by her side the whole time.
He just stepped to the side while I took the picture. Camera shy apparently.