Birthday Camping Is The Best Camping

I'm a bit behind here since Sky's Birthday Camping trip was 2 weeks ago, but better late than never I guess.

Can I just say how awesome I think it is that she wanted to go camping for her birthday...that's just down right fun for everyone! So true to her nature as well. She's happiest outside, running around, finding bugs, riding bikes, working in the yard, running etc. She just loves being outside!

It's funny how the stages and changes never land right on the date the age changes, but I can sure tell a difference in her the last month or so. So much more aware of emotions, tone of voice, knowing there are consequences for actions, and even more sense of humor. She's growing up for sure.

Daily she walks up to me and puts her hands on my cheeks and says, "What happened to my baby Sky? I growed up Mommy, that's what happened". I'm just thankful she still curls up like a baby in my lap for cuddle time.

Lot's of camping pics...none of which are mine. Thank you Mark, Kristen, Alex and Michelle for the pics! I didn't take the time to edit either.

 Kiera, Grace, Sky = Three Amigos.

 Cracking up. 

 Biker Chicks! 

 Gotta put her feet up and rest. 

 Sky caught her first fish this trip! 

Shout out to Grace! After she caught her first fish, and landed her second on her pole she handed it off to Sky, so Sky could bring it in herself and score her very first fish. That is pretty awesome right there! 

 Putting Silas to work! 

Two things Sky asked for over and over for birthday camping...party hats and to bake a birthday cake with Uncle Bob. Well she had a new hat every day, and Bob hooked her up with birthday cake baking. All the below pics are from Michelle...thank you!

Sky, Michelle, Kiera...thank you Alex for the pic! 

So much fun, and Sky is still talking about camping weeks later! Thank you everyone who made it special for her, including my Dad and Johanna who went way out of their way (several hours worth of a detour)  to stop in at camp and deliver birthday gifts!

Travel Ready

Sky received an early Birthday gift over the weekend...a membership to Little Passports! I have had my eye on this since she was a baby, and finally it's time. She's starting to talk about places she wants to travel to, and is fascinated by maps and globes.

She has a passport, and has been to several countries already. Now we will have a new country to learn about every month, and will be cooking food from each country we receive in the mail.

She was so excited Grandpa!

She spent a lot of time going over the map and picked out Africa as the place she'd like to visit first. It may be a few years, but we will get her there some day!

Enjoying the Long Weekend

I hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend, and taking a moment to be thankful to those that gave their life, so that we can live ours in peace and happiness. 

It feels like it's been forever since I did a post, but that's mostly because it's been a really busy weekend!  It all kinda started on Thursday (hence the lack of a thankful Thursday post last week) with Sky's birthday.  Even though Thursday was her big day, we spent it running errands to get ready for the big party on Saturday.  I did make it a point though to stop and cuddly/give hugs every time she asked for one!

I seriously have no idea how we have a 3 year old already.  It happened so fast!  I'm not going to lie...sometimes I really miss that cuddly little baby she used to be.   

 

Most of the time though (like 99.99999% of the time) I love each and every new age and stage.  It is so much fun watching her grow into her own little person.  Some things are totally our influence, but others are 100% her, and it's fun seeing what her interests and likes are.    

She loves jumping, on anything and everything so we planned her birthday party at the local bounce house place.  We like to forgo fancy for active, fun play time type of parties.  Really, I just want her worn out so she'll take a nap!

  Had the whole place to ourselves, with lunch and cupcakes for all.

There was also lot's of play time and hang out time with Grandpa (my Dad).  Sky had so much fun having Grandpa around!  

Watching a movie with Grandpa.

Thankfully Dad was able to work on my shoulder and knee issues as well.  Oddly enough the week I took off didn't leave me feeling very rested, I actually felt like I came out of the week off with some injury type pain.  But, thanks to Dad I'm feeling better and ready to start the next training cycle!

The rest of the weekend has been spent hanging out just the three of us at the farmers market, the park, and getting projects done around the house. 

 We walked to the school park just down the road from us and she had to bring her field bag to add sticks and leaves and stuff too.  

 She watches and talks to Daddy through the slats when he's working on projects in the driveway.  

 She wanted to help carry the goods back to the car.

 I love that she gets dressed up to go outside and help Daddy.  That dress is from when I was a kiddo!  It's still in really great shape!

 Watching the boats.

Going to spend the rest of the day enjoying my last day of not running before training starts tomorrow!  I'm actually looking forward to pounding pavement again...it's funny to me how cruddy I've felt not running!

Thank you to everyone who took time to celebrate Sky's birthday, and a big thank you to my Dad for well...everything!  

I hope everyone enjoys the rest of the long weekend!  

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