4th of July

I know it's the 21st and I'm just getting around to this post but I've been working a lot lately. So here it is.

River woke up pleasant and of course the first thing she wants to see every morning is either daddy, mommy or the dog. She walks up to Tsosie, pulls some tufts of her hair out and walks over to the trash can and throws it all away. Ha ha. She's so funny.

On the morning of the 4th Chris suggested we go to the mountains. Seeing that we live near them and don't go often I thought it was a great idea. Plus River really really loves being outside. If she had her way she would run around naked with shoes on and play outside all day every day.

We drove with the old dog and the young child up to the crest and picked a G rated trail. Tsosie stopped every two seconds to stop and smell something and rest while River vollied back and forth between running and stopping to touch every tree stump. It was awesome. I like hiking that way. She did the same thing in Los Alamos to weekend before.

We hung out and ate while trying to keep the dog from leaving with other families and trying to keep the girl from climbing up onto steep high things. For the rest of our hike River was in the baby backpack (which is super duper awesome).

Then someone told us about the hummingbirds. We had to see it. Behind the cafe/gift shop there are two massive hummingbird feeders with swarms of hummingbirds that have been conditioned to let you hold them. River had a frickin ball. They flew around our heads like we weren't even there. It was surreal.

We left for home and ended up having a lovely 4th of July dinner with Chris' parents and then I had a brief moment to myself up on the roof deck watching all of the fireworks in our tiny big city. They looked like little fairies spritzing across the skyline. Our drive home was beautiful and all in all it was quite a lovely 4th.