Big Family Adventure -- Crowders Mountain

I am proud to report that we are officially crazy :) It's always after the fact that you realize this is the case it seems. This past weekend the weather people seemed to convince Evan that it was going to be nice and cool. Of course this meant great time to do something outdoors. For whatever reason, i still can't figure out, Evan decided we should go hiking on Crowders Mountain. It is a state park about 45 minutes from our house. We have climbed this mountain previously aka: before kids. When he mentioned it I thought hmm okay that could be fun. I guess i didn't remember or realize how strenuous it was on us the first go round.

We planned out everything the night before. Tested out the backpack for Jonah (see pic), packed our lunches, snacks and drinks -- so we were ready to go Saturday morning.

We got to the park around 11:30. We decided to take the less strenuous route up so that it wouldnt be so hard for Shayna. We had planned for Shayna to walk the whole way. She's pretty active and likes to do things on her own so we didn't think it would be a problem. Which of ocourse it wasn't. The problem was the fact that we chose the 2.8 mile hike up. What Evan had planned to be 30 min - maybe 1 hour turned into 2 + hours of climbing and climbing and climbing. We stopped several people on the way up to ask them how much farther -- they all kinda chuckled and said its a bit more, but dont worry it's worth it when you get there. Did they not realize we had two little kids.



Shayna was such a tropper she walked/hiked most of the way up not necessarily by choice but she did it none the less. Jonah chilled and enjoyed sleeping all the way up and most of the way down. It was definitey worth it getting to the top and seeing how beautiful it was looking out below. I'm not sure Shayna fully understands what she did but she does keep saying climb montin mommy. Maybe it's because her legs are still hurting, she just can't explain that :)


Needless to say it was quite an adventure which was a lot of fun. We're definitely glad we didn't think it out too much b/c we had a great time but probably won't be going back anytime soon -- for Shayna's sake of course!

Shayna's 2

We finally got the test results back from the blood work on Shayna and are SOOO glad to report that she does not have CF and is going to be just fine!!! We are so lucky to have such great family and friends who have been very supportive throughout the last few weeks. Thanks to everyone!!

This past weekend Shayna had her 2nd birthday!! It's hard to believe that 2 years have already passed. We have had so much fun with Shayna in our lives and every day she continues to make us smile. We decided not to do any party or big celebration this year. We figured Shayna's not really old enough to fully understand or appreciate the party and although she might never forgive us once she's older and realizes...we did try to do everything we could to make her day as special as possible. And I would like to think we did that and then some :)

here are some pics from the birthday weekend celebration http://picasaweb.google.com/weissfamilypictures/ShaynaS202