Weekend at the Lazy H

Dave & Irene Hatch invited us and some other friends up to their fabulous Lazy H Ranch for a little weekend get away!

It was so much fun! We chatted and played games on Friday then took the

4-Wheelers out to check out the "Wolf Moon", apparently the biggest brightest moon of 2010. It didn't look super huge from our vantage point in the Middle-of-Nowhere, Utah

but it was still bright enough to light our midnight adventure!! The next morning the boys were actually the ones in the kitchen cooking a delicious breakfast of pancakes, bacon, eggs and fruit -

I had to document such a momentous occasion - if only to remind myself that miracles do happen!!! After breakfast it was out on the 4-wheelers again to go shooting and explore the millions of trails throughout the Lazy H Ranch!

I shot a 22 pistol for the first time - Yes, the very same one Richard shot himself with 2 weeks before entering the MTC - Sorry Rich, just had to throw that in there!!! It was so freaking loud - I felt so cool, all Police officer style!! Then we set up some cans of soda and bottles of water to aim at with the rifle Richard brought up!

Dave said we could shoot at anything "smaller than a Chicken" but since we could only find wildlife tracks, we had to resort to bottles and soda cans!!! - Not that I could have even attempted to shoot a poor little animal -

I will stick to Clay Pigeons!!! HeHe! After we shot through most of the ammunition we decided to continue our explorations!! We came to "crossings" in the trail that crossed over frozen rivers - well, frozen over before we drove through them!! The water progressively got deeper and deeper with each crossing and the ice chunks became thicker and thicker!!

Some ice chunks were almost 2 inches thick!! Wowza!! It was a totally fun weekend get away and I am excited for our trip to Las Vegas in a few weeks to watch the 7's rugby tournament - The boys have put together a team so it will be fun to see Jimmy play Rugby again! You can be sure I will be documenting every move he makes!!

I am officially 23 weeks today!

I have also officially gained 20 lbs!! YIKES! My doctor was so proud of me for "finally putting on some weight" - SOME weight??? Hello, that evens out to almost a pound a week! But it has been so fun to start feeling the little guy kick - and even be able to see it! We were sitting at dinner tonight and he was going CRAZY! I have a sneaking suspicion this little guy is going to be quite a handful! But we are getting more and more excited every second! We haven't started on the baby's room yet because the "office renovation" is still underway - It will really be fabulous when it is all done but it has just been such a process - you can't do one thing until something else is done! I am getting excited for the "Big Reveal" coming hopefully sometime in the next few weeks!!!