the leavitts.

we hiked R mountain yesterday. the whole fam. our camera battery was dead so i have no pictures to prove it, but i promise we did. for those who haven't been to rexburg, hiking the R is a similar idea to hiking the Y in provo. except the trail is a little more rugged. and R mountain is more of a big hill then a mountain. actually it's an old volcano. FYI. so you climb to the top and then around the crater.

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i have never ever ever experienced wind like we did on the top of that mountain. ever. EVER. it was unreal. at times you would be leaning so much into the wind that when the gust stopped you would lose your balance. and at one point i assumed a wicked 'triple threat' position because i thought i was going to get blown off a ledge. matt laughed.

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matt and i had taken a lunch up there to have a picnic, but didn't get to have the cute picnic we were hoping for. we walked and walked in hopes of finding a place that was protected from the hurricane winds. but never did. so it was a quick, windy lunch. we saw cactus on the mountain. weird, huh? idaho is a crazy place. it has everything. matt thought he saw a lizard, but it was a twig.

(this is R mountain. but you can't see the R. i found this picture on the internet.)

it has been about 2 years since matt and i have gone on a run together. i fired him as my running partner because he is so much faster then me. even if he is in awful shape, or just ate a big mac, he can run faster then me. drives me nuts. but tonight i put my frustrations aside and invited matt on a run. he accepted. we ran. and he ran faster. laaame. it's not like i'm in great shape, but who even knows the last time he ran. boys are dumb! it was fun though. and nice to have someone to ditch the stroller on! we will have to do it again.

my mom wants me to post a video of chet smiling because i told her that he smiles now. but we aren't having much luck getting a smile on film. we have a whole bunch of video clips of chet staring at the camera while we make ridiculous sounds in the background. we'll keep trying. chet is growing lots. i was trying to think of something we could lay him next to as a gauge to show how big he is. but i couldn't find anything good. the closest thing to me at the time was a gnome. (yes, we have a gnome). so...we are pleased to report that chet is more then 2 gnomes tall now.

we have a baby book that says 'take a break. don't shake.' (referring to when you feel like you are losing your mind because you can't soothe your baby). we have always made light of it. but matt's book of mormon teacher is friends with the judge here in rexburg. he has been in that position for not even 1 year. and this man has already sentenced 4 students to prison for causing major damage or death by shaking their babies. isn't that just awful? that makes me so sad to think about.

to end on a lighter note. matt and i were thrilled when we flipped past the jake vs vienna showdown on the bachelorette last night. too funny. did any one actually think they were good together? eww not me.