Enjoy the Little Things: Hiking Adventuers

Saturday morning we went out to REI and we were finally able to get a Kelty child carrier for our Hikes. We have wanted one for quite some time now but they were just way too expensive, so we got our REI dividend, and we had just enough to get one! That afternoon we had to test it out! We went to the Vita course, it was pretty wet and muddy, but we had a blast!

Ethan Loves his new carrier. It will be a lot easier to bring Ethan along now when we go for hikes.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Sunday was so beautiful it was hard not to go for a nice hike! Josh, Shaun, Val, McKenzie and Dakota came over for dinner, then afterwards we went for a hike across the face of the mountain above our house. It was so fun. We saw three doe's about 20 ft from us, the other night we even saw some coyotes.

Ethan sure does enjoy our hikes, except last night he enjoyed it a little too much... He fell right asleep!

I love going hiking with my husband. He makes it so enjoyable for me! He is always trying to motivate me and help me to do better! I love him so much! Kevy got this really good picture of me and Ethan with the beautiful sunset behind us!

My Beautiful Wife - (Kev's input on our blog)

I can't imagine my life without my beautiful wife, son and daughter! Erika is a loving, patient, and exceptional wife. she is a kind and wise mother! I am so blessed to have her! we held hands for the first time as we walked around bountiful park! she faked a neck pain while laying on my lap and kissed me for the first time! I worried for it seemed like forever about that kiss, I worried that I wasn't very good at it! she thought I was cute though and it worked out to my advantage! Erika and I had known each other for quite some time. She would come and do things with my friends and I. We were at the bountiful park for a young single adult activity and we were playing a game that included quite a bit of running and a heavier girl went down and was haveing trouble breathing. so I went and helped her. to make a long story short I think the girl was faking it cause when I mentioned ambulance all of her simptoms seemed to go away! Erike thought it was cute of me to hold her hand and tell her everything was going to be alright! I think I blew that a little later though when I threw a cooler full of ice water on her during a water fight! I knew she was meant for me after she made it past two weeks of me! She is wonderful! she makes me laugh and I am so happy to see her when I come home! Erika has so many qualities, she is patient, loving, tender, faithful, family oriented, always striving to do better, I cannot say enough about her! I hope she always knows of my love for her, my devotion to her, and my cherishing of her!

6 comments:

Vyedka said...: Fun that is exciting you got carrier for Ethan. It is so much nicer going hiking with them in a carrier. Did you just use your jogging stroller when you went hiking?? Very beautiful pictures!; March 10, 2008 at 5:54 PM
Erika and Kevin said...: Yea we would either use our stroller or just carry him on our back, which got old fast! Our stroller is kinda bulky so it has a hard time going up bair canyon and even adams so we would just carry him. So I am excited we got our new carrier!; March 11, 2008 at 9:58 AM
Amanda said...: That looks like a lot of fun!! I like hiking!; March 15, 2008 at 12:45 PM
The Baker Family - a red thread said...: Hey, cute stuff! When are you going to post some more? This is the only way I really know what's going on with everybody! Come on, don't leave us hanging!; March 27, 2008 at 5:48 AM
The Baker Family - a red thread said...: Ok I just realized that the first comment I left might be misinterpreted. When I said "cute stuff", I meant that your blog was cute, although you may have thought I was calling you "cute stuff". Don't get me wrong - you're terribly cute, that just isn't what I meant!; March 27, 2008 at 5:50 AM
Erika and Kevin said...: Sure Kendra I know your true feelings it's ok to admit it!; March 31, 2008 at 4:38 PM