A Night Out, Baby Dancing, & a Trail Walk

Hello my fellow blog readers. I apologize for my lack of posts recently. When I started blogging my sister said, “post at least once a week, if you want to keep your readers.” Well, hopefully I haven’t lost too many of you from my lack of journaling motivation. It’s been a great month of March and I certaintly have had a lot to post about, I just haven’t done the typing.

I’m sure everyone is in awe that March is already coming to close here soon. I’m completely baffled, I swear it was New Year’s just a few weekends ago. Hopefully for those that have been under lots of snow, the grass is starting to sprout and your itching to buy some yard plants. That’s my stage right now. I was leaving for a bike ride tonight after work and the way the sun was angled on my grass it was this small field of lime green. It appeared thick and lush, although this was just an illusion caused by the angle of the sun, as it is still pretty sparse. Nevertheless, I smiled big and said to myself, “spring is going to be here soooo soon.”

So, what’s happening in my world… I’ve been reading Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth: Awakening to your life’s purpose, as well as some others that focus on living in the “Now.” To be honest I’ve been on this journey for awhile now, but over the last month and a half, it seems to take up a lot of my world. It’s really refreshing to really begin to not only understand the concept of living in the now, but to experience it. I won’t go into that all now, that’s its on blog post in and of itself.

So, I’ll tell you about my weekend. It was my friend Alexa’s birthday today, but she had a birthday weekend. It started with a yummy Tostada dinner at their house and ended with some of us dancing the night away to an interesting country band that had a large range of music. It was Alexa’s real first night out since baby Aubrey (who is about to turn 1) found out she was pregnant. She was WAY over due for a good night out with some friends.

(David, Emily, Casey, Josh, Alexa, Martin)

This was taken before Alexa got the spins after 4 drinks :) It was a lot of fun to be out and I had a really good time dancing a ton towards the end of the night.

I’ll back up though to earlier in the night. Aubrey is really starting to dance and bop when she hears music, and it’s the cutest dang thing. I love to watch babies begin to dance, especially since music and dancing is so dear to me. Here’s a video of Aubrey doing a little jig here and there. She also loves lights right now and if you say “light” she says “ehh” and then looks at the light. She also does it a lot on her own.

After a great Friday night I slept in a bit and it was such a beautiful sunny day I decided I wanted to take a drive and go somewhere with my puppas. I decided on heading up to Heyburn State park which is about an hour away. There is a 74 mile paved trail that starts there that used to be old train tracks. You can take the trail all the way into Montana. It borders lakes, rivers, ponds, meanders through valleys and takes you up in the mountains. I’ve never ridden the trail, but someday I might want to do the whole trail. Saturday though, was just going to be a walk with my dogs.

The drive was great. I had to pull over for Zoe once cuz she was in a state of panic. Poor dog gets claustrophobic/car sick. Then there’s Cole Buddy who just sits in the back, cool as a cucumber, so laid back.

Here a few photos from the trail. There’s this really amazing bridge that I’ve kayaked underneath before but never have walked across. It was really neat. It took a bit of encouragement to get Zoe to join Cole and I but she did it eventually.

I love to make them sit and pose for me. They’re such good dogs.
I don’t know how long the bridge is, but it’s a good distance with some nice views off either side.

This is looking back at the bridge. You can still see the snow up in the mountains. These are pretty small mtns. compared to most in Idaho.

You can see the bridge in the background if you look really hard. It’s amazing that even though the snow is just melting around here and spring hasn’t even fully arrived, it was still so pretty.

At one point we stopped and went down off the trail to the lake. Zoe couldn’t resist swimming and chewing sticks besides the freezing water temp. Cole dabbled a bit up to his belly then went to chill on the sandy, rocky beach.

I sat for awhile but then I saw two different huge black spiders running on the rocks around me and decided it was time to stand again. I really didn’t want my energy to turn sour over some spiders in their own habitat.

I mini self portrait taken on that little beach before we got back on the trail.

It was such a beautiful serene day. I purposely didn’t turn on my ipod so I could hear and listen to all the nature around me and be in its presence. There was water slapping the shore, waterfalls, reeds rustling, birds chirping, the sun warming my face from the cool wind blowing, four humans (2 cyclist, 2 walkers), and my puppas and I. Well, that’s the shortened version of my 4 hour adventure anyway.

I’m headed to Florida on April 1st, so I’m not sure how much posting I’ll be doing. Hopefully I’ll make some time to post about some of my adventures there. I like to do it when they’re fresh in my head.

Till next time ~
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“Whatever you fight you strengthen, and what you resist, persists”