Boys Hiking Trip

Mr. J had an extremely busy week at work. In addition to getting everything ready for his "vacation," he also was preparing for a big inspection that was scheduled to start tomorrow and studying for his promotion test that is tomorrow at 1300. We worked late every evening and then as soon as he got home started studying. So he decided he needed some fresh air and went for a hike on Saturday with Mr. T and his friend JS. They had a fun time exploring some desert areas west of Vegas. I think he even got to practice shooting his new gun at cactuses. He said he let Mr. T pull the trigger once or twice, but he wasn't a fan cause it kind of hurt his finger. I had to laugh cause I had just read my friend Sam's post You may be a redneck if.. (you enlist the help of your 3 year old to make home brew) and thought our 18 month old having a sore finger could qualify as making us rednecks as well.

Mr. J tells me these pictures were taken near the end of the hike and Mr. T was "done" at that point, but I thought they were cute. You gotta love their matching Carhartts!

If you were wondering what we did for our special girl time while they were hiking, it was this....

• chew gum (a very special treat for them)
• paint robots with real paint on brown paper bags
• McDonalds Happy Meal
• finish our taxes at H&R Block (I had a great experience... I did the time saving drop-off packet the day before so it only took about 30 min of my time on Saturday... if any one wants a $15 coupon, I have a couple so leave me a comment)
• Cupcakes! We visited a new cupcake store called Just Cupcakes in NW Vegas and they were delicious. I have to say I think they were better than The Cupcakery! Miss O picked out the all pink strawberry flavor since we checked out the book Pinkalicious from the library this week. It is a cute book about a girl who eats one too many pink cupcakes and gets pinkitis! No worries though, Miss O didn't turn pink!