Alex's Little Gym graduation

Last week Alex graduated from his Little gym once again. This was his second semester attending the Little gym and we've seen a huge improvement in his physical skills. This semester lasted 4 months and at the beginning of it Alex was afraid to walk on the beam or to hang off of the monkey bars. Well, we've seen such a great improvement during this semester that we have no doubt the Little gym helped Alex tremendously in improving his athletic skills.

He learned to walk on the beam by himself and even turn 360 while on it.

Dave was teaching him to keep "strong" arms while hanging on the bar.

He even learned to hang upside down and do a flip on the bar (with the help of his instructor).

He performed one more time on the beam.
His favorite trick was to run very fast and jump over this rounded mat. He did it over and over and got really good at it.

At the end of the class every kid had to show his favorite trick. Alex demonstrated a donkey kick to everybody.
He got a medal for it and thought that he won (we won't tell him otherwise :)
It was amazing to me to see how 4 months of seemingly easy-going gym lessons taught Alex so much. I'm really glad we took him there and I appreciate all of his amazing instructors that were so patient with him and taught him so much!

Picnic in the mountains

Last weekend we spontaneously got together with some friends, grabbed everything from the fridge and the pantry and went to the mountains to have a picnic. We first tried the Spruces but the snow there, although dirty and melting, was still 3-4 feet high, believe it or not! So we drove back down the Big Cottonwood canyon and stopped at Storm mountain. That place is gorgeous, it has a mountain river right by it and very nicely maintained picnic tables and fire pits. When we got there and settled, Nico gave me a ride on his sweet-looking bike. I really liked it, although I used to be afraid of motorcycles :((

We all relaxed while our shashlik (shishkabob) was cooking.
Look at that beauty! Doesn't it look delicious? (By the way, Carine and Randall, it WAS delicious).
The kids found a little green caterpillar that they were playing with.

Needless to say, it didn't survive for very long... Good thing they're still young and don't understand that they killed it :)

Alex and Ava had a lot of fun together. They were posing for me on a huge log.

Then the adults were posing. And here is our beautiful fire :)

A close up of all of us.
The kids went out to explore the area, they even found these huge sticks that made them look like real hikers.

It was a great outing, we all enjoyed it a lot. It's not a surprise that by the end of it the kids had dirty faces- at least they got to explore to their heart's desire :))

We liked hanging out in the nature so much that this weekend we're already going back out there!!!