Happy Campers

Brian and I have been chomping at the bit to go camping.  If any of you know us at all, you know that we L-O-V-E to go camping.  It's been about two years since we have been able to go camping and we owe that all to Owen :)  It would have been a little much to camp last summer with a newborn baby...but that made this first camping trip that much better.  AND we brought a little certain somebody along for the ride to test out his mountain man skills...

Owen on his first camping adventure with Mommy and Daddy

I have to be honest, I was a little nervous to take him up to Strawberry with us because I wasn't sure how the little guy was going to be with the whole "roughing it" thing BUT he did AWESOME.  I gave birth to a little mountain man!  He took to the woods like it was second nature for him.  He loved to watch Daddy chop wood for the campfire, in fact, he thought it was hilarious for whatever reason.  We couldn't get him to stop laughing.

I wondered how he was going to handle sleeping in a tent on a air mattress but he LOVED that too.  He sprawled out in our sleeping bag and acted like he was just as warm and cozy as if he was in his own crib.  He definitely showed Mommy that he has this whole camping thing in the bag.

Just waking up from an afternoon nap in his cozy tent

Waiting patiently as we set up camp

He loved sitting around the campfire...he kept saying "HOT"

Playing around with Daddy and trying to steal his cap

We also got to do some fishing on this camping trip.  We met up with some of our friends who had their boat on the lake.  We had SO MUCH FUN with them!  Many thanks to Rob and Debbie for letting Owen experience his first boat ride.

Owen loved his 1st Boating/Fishing Excursion

In fact, he was Rob's little CAPTAIN

We even caught some fish!

Brian reeling in the BIG one

We brought that little guy home with us in the cooler :)

Heading back to the dock...don't you just love the look on Owen's face?!?!  He just woke up from another nap...SEE he loves the boat

It was such a great weekend!  We can't wait to do it again with the WHOLE family next time.  We have already scoped out our next camp site.  

But before we do that we have a BIG EVENT coming up this Saturday... can you guess what it is???

SOMEBODY IS TURNING ONE...!!!

The Best of April and May...

April and May were such busy months for us.  I've just spent the last couple hours uploading and organizing photos from my iPhone and camera onto our computer in order to pick out my favorite ones for this post.  I must say, with our hectic and sometimes unforgiving schedules, we sure do cram in as much fun as we possible can...and it's hard not to with this AMAZING weather that we have been having.

It's hard for me to stay indoors when it's beautiful outside so I find as many outdoor activities as I can possibly can to keep little Owen occupied.  In fact, on one of our first nice days of Spring Owen got to experience the Hogle Zoo for the first time.  He LOVED it!! It was incredible for me to see his face light up at each new animal that he got to see.  One of his favorite books is DEAR ZOO.  It goes it little something like this...

"I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet...

"they sent me a GIRAFFE...he was too TALL, I sent him back...

" so they sent me a LION, he was too FIERCE, I sent him back..."

We didn't get to see EVERY animal but the ones we did see, oh my, Owen was just in AWE!  After about 2 hours this is what I took home with me...

I'd say it was a pretty successful day at the zoo, wouldn't you??

Owen isn't the only one getting to have all the fun (that is, if you consider running fun)...after 8 weeks of pushing around a massive jogging stroller, I finally ran the La Jolla Half Marathon with my best friend.  It's been six years since my last half marathon, and my first major feat since having Owen.  It rates pretty high on my list of my most proud moments.

My BFF, Lindsay, and I taking a pre-race photo

We finished the race in 2:30, not bad eh?  We were pretty pleased with ourselves given the route of the 1/2 marathon...let's just say we won't be running that course anytime in the near future or EVER for that matter.

No sooner than arriving at the airport to board a plan back to Salt Lake City, I signed up for another 1/2 marathon (yeah, I'm crazy)!!  I'll be running the Park City Half Marathon in mid-August.  I still must of had adrenaline pumping thru my veins because I failed to consider the fact that I was having foot surgery Mother's Day weekend.  I'm optimistic that my doctor is going to let me start running again at the end of June (keep your fingers crossed).  And don't worry, I'll spare you all the post-surgery pictures :)

Like I mentioned earlier, we love being outside, especially when the weather calls for sunny skies...OR when Harrison joins a baseball team!!!

Harrison getting ready to play his 1st baseball game of the season

Up to Bat

Andrew and Owen cheering on Harrison

more from the cheering section

Harrison playing outfield

We've really enjoyed watching Harrison play on his baseball team.  I have to tell you, he has quite the arm on him!  He launches the baseball across the field like it's nothing.  His coach had him playing a lot of different positions but it appears that first base is where it's at for him.

Well the boys are now out of school for the summer and they've taken to summer vacation like true champs  :)  Both Harrison and Andrew have started swimming on a competitive swim team for the summer.  I think Harrison is doing it more for conditioning for next year's swim season.  He takes his swimming very serious and we love that about him.  I hope Andrew will enjoy it just as much.  We can't wait to go cheer them on when the meets start.  We'll definitely share some pictures when they start.

That about wraps it up for now.  Stay tuned for more Sucher Family Summertime Fun...