Weekend getaway

We hadn't visited Show Low for sooooo long - well a few months at least and we just had to get up there and escape the heat! It was a beautiful long weekend to visit - wish there would've been a bit more rain, but thankfully, we got all the fun of the rainy weather (loud thunder, cloud cover, etc.) but without the actual rain. We enjoyed a fantastic visit with Grandma and Papaw! We fed the ducks at Woodland Lake Park. We. HA! When I say "we" I mean everyone but me - ducks count as birds you know. Brenna tried hard to throw that bread out far enough for them - she just not the best bread thrower around :)

We also got to have fun just playing in the yard and I got to play with my camera! There are sooo many beautiful things in the yard at my parent's house - I got lots of practice with different shutter speeds, etc. It was fun to get a chance to goof around with settings and see what I ended up with. Now I just need to do it more often!

Brenna helped water the yard one afternoon followed by an early campfire. Well, a fire in the firepit - not actually camping. But perhaps the closest to camping that Brenna will get from me. She wasn't crazy about it anyway - talking about how the "air" would change and blow the smoke toward her. The whole idea was to make s'mores - who doesn't love s'mores? Well apparently, Brenna doesn't love s'mores. She knew right away that she didn't want marshmallows. Whatever I thought - when she sees how cool they are when the fire melts them into the chocolate, she'll love 'em. Nope - I was wrong. She only wanted chocolate and cracker. About 2 tiny bites of chocolate and cracker. I made her try the actual s'more. This is the face she made. I know - crazy!!! But I enjoyed TWO s'mores to make up for it. She is such a ham - she cracked us up the entire weekend. We all got our fill of being the "buyer" while playing store and listening to that little chatterbox talk our ears off. She doesn't slow down or take a breath sometimes - and the stories that she comes up with! We love her so much!!

It was such a great weekend - nice and relaxing. I even managed to stay on my health kick, getting my running/walking in at least 2 of the days! Even in the high altitude - but it will be worth it when I finish a 5K!!! Stay tuned for that story.

Stuff about Brenna I wanna remember

• She LOVES Hannah Montana - not like I will forget that! She asks when she can go to her house. She wants to hug her. She's upset that I don't have her phone number. LOVES her. Even said that she wishes HM was a boy so she could marry her when she grows up. She likes her because she sings so pretty and has cool clothes!!
• She is impatient - doesn't like being stopped in traffic/construction, etc. She wants what she wants and she wants it now.
• She has a crazy good memory - remembering things that were said weeks before in a five second portion of a conversation.
• She sings all the time (much like her mommy and Aunt Jamie). If she doesn't know the words to a song, she begins humming and over time, learns the words (much like her mommy and Aunt Jamie).
• She is starting to get freckles - one appeared near her belly button (also a family tradition - oddly enough) a number of months ago, but now I'm seeing them on her nose/cheeks and arms.
• She has sensitive feelings - has told me (after she's been disciplined/scolded) that I hurt her feelings "right here" while holding her hand to her heart - awww....
• She asks some of the most amazing questions - that I don't always have an answer for: "How did God make us?" being one of the most recent. After I attempted to answer that - she said "I wanna hug God"
• She is a girly girl - loves wearing lip gloss, nail polish, carrying a purse, wearing jewelry and putting on my blue eyeshadow (at home only - haha).
• She tells me she loves me out of the blue FREQUENTLY. I try to soak that one in as much as I can.