Fun Weekend!!

This past weekend Jake had Friday off because earlier in the week he had parent-teacher conferences. We decided to enjoy the day by hiking up Waterfall Canyon and then having a picnic afterwards. Cooper had a blast and loved to try to reach out and grab the leaves! It was a good work out for Jake to pack Cooper all the way up on his back!

On Saturday we went up to the Xterra Triathlon National Championships at Snow Basin. It was a really cool event to be able to watch with some amazing athletes.

We mostly went to see the one and only LANCE ARMSTRONG! Lance has been a long-time hero of Jake's so he was stoked! The coolest part is that we got to be within only a few feet of Lance to cheer him on in the last part of the biking and both the start and finish of the run.

Cooper even had his bell to cheer on the racers!

Lance at the beginning of the 6 mile run

and Lance at the end of the run:



We are LOVING being able to spend our Saturdays together!

Jake is very overwhelmed with school and work, but he is handling it very well! I've been so proud of him! We just bought him a little commuter car so we weren't putting so many miles on our Subaru.

Cooper is learning to do something new everyday it seems like. He's now crawling on his hands and knees instead of just scooting. He's eating table food and is growing up way too fast on us! We are so grateful and lucky to have such great babysitters to be helping us out while we are at work. (Thanks you guys!) They are seriously the best, especially since we have to drop him off so early in the morning! Cooper is loving the chance to be able to play with other kids. It's been hard on me to have to send Cooper to the babysitter, but I'm sure it will get easier over time (I hope!)

Too bad our fun weekend is over and bright and early tomorrow morning our week starts again!