Rafting

Times Justin has rafted this season : probably a dozen

Times Melinda has rafted this season : once!!!!!!

We are fortunate to have awesome friends, the Cardens, that own a 4 person raft. And we are even more fortunate that they like us enough to invite us to go rafting! Justin has been going a lot this year already. But, with little Mack, I have not gotten to go yet...until last week! Last Thursday, Verita invited me to go rafting with Daniel (above in a precious pic before the trip) and Justin while she hung out with Macklin. It was awesome and I was so grateful to get on the water, even though we did a little run because Melody (above), Daniel's daughter, came with us. They have a precious new daughter named Ellawese (I don't know if that is how they spell it).

It was so much fun to be doing something together with Justin! That is the one part of the active lifestyle that is hindered a bit by a new baby. We can still be active and have our hobbies, but now we have to do things separately. Kinda stinky but totally worth it to have our little man!

The other exciting part of our day last Thursday included the dogs! The Cardens have a German Shepard named Ada. We took the dogs down to the river to play after we got done putting the raft away. Baxter will jump in the water and swim after sticks...he is actually quite a good swimmer. But, the Cardens say that Ada isn't much of a swimmer by choice. So, my favorite part of our time was when Justin dives into the Colorado River and calls Baxter out. Bax jumps in and Ada follows him! Daniel jumps in behind and all four of them swim clear to the other side of the river, through the current (it was a slow moving area, no big rapids or anything). It was awesome! And they all made it back. No longer is Ada "not a swimmer." It was a proud dog-owning moment and so cool to watch! The pups were rock stars. I wish I would have had my camera!