HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!

It's so hard to believe that it is already 2010. It seems like we just rang in 2009. Where did the time go? We spent our New Year's Eve with just the four of us. It's so hard to keep Mady up until midnight so we went to a later showing of the new Chipmunks movie. Then we came home and played a few of our new games; Guesstures and Sequence. Guesstures is probably one of our most favorite games to play. The kids got it for Christmas. We had so much fun playing it and laughed so hard. We all rang in the New Year and then promptly crashed.

New Years day we watched the parade and then headed out for a nice long hike. The weather was beautiful. It was in the low 70's which is a little high for this time of year. It was great though. I never get bored with our hikes. Scott and I went on another hike the next day in the mountains behind our house. Mady is not quite tall enough for this hike. There are several areas where you need long legs and lots of upper body strength. Scott and I are trying to prepare ourselves for our anniversary trip to Yosemite where we plan to hike Half Dome. Half Dome is approximately a 16 mile hike straight up the mountain. On average it takes about 10 hours to complete. We are so excited to do it but need to get some more strenuous hiking in first. Good thing we have 4 1/2 months to work on it.

This was at the top of our 2nd hike.

Making our way to the top.

This was New Year's Day.

This ecological reserve is one of my favorite places to hike.

We stopped under this huge tree to eat lunch.