Cabella's, Birthday, Swinging!

We jam packed a whole bunch of fun things into this last weekend.  First, I got all of Jason's b-day gifts ready to go for his early birthday party at my parents house...he still has no clue about his one present...which is awesome.  He is seriously impossible to surprise, mostly because he's too snoopy/excited and can't wait till his birthday.  Not this year!  Hahahaha...

So we started off the weekend by going down to my cousin Taylor's Eagle Scout Court of Honor.  We are really close with his folks, my Aunt A'donna and Uncle Dwight...so much fun.  So we went down to support Taylor, and represent everyone from my fam, who were ALL out of town.  Disneyland, Bear Lake, and St. George...where the heck is OUR vacation??
Right before we exit the highway to go to their house, we stopped at Cabella's.  Jason was looking at guns...his new obsession.  Found a really nice rifle that he *almost* purchased, but wanted to talk to his "gun buddy" some more about it first.  I found myself a nice Smith & Wesson Bodyguard .380 that I told him I liked.  He said it's the same one his brother Austin is getting, so that was kind of funny that I picked the same one!
Here is Kayla in front of the giant mountain in the store.

 And little B, chillin' in front of the raccoon.

 Makayla is holding up a penny that Bryon pressed for her there.  And of course, the fish tank there is pretty cool.  She was fascinated.

 Me and my cutie hubby.  This was his "I don't want to take a picture" face.  Notice the forced smile.  I love him....little stinker.  :)

 Birthday party at my parents house.  He was SO surprised with his one gift.  I got him a started EMT/Paramedic trauma bag.  Got all the fancy stuff inside it.  He's going to have fun adding all kinds of things to it.   He loved it!!  Success!!  First time in 7 years that I was able to really truly surprise him with something!

 We took a walk up to a canal about a mile away from my parents house.  It's SO pretty, just a nice grassy trail with ducks everywhere, a rope swing and the canal was nice and full of water.  Kayla took off right as we got there to feed the ducks, and apparently she had fallen down bank, which is quite steep, and about a 4 foot drop straight into the water.  No one heard ANY screams or anything, and luckily Jason had just hopped on the rope swing and could see her in the water.  So we all went running down and she had gone all the way in, and was barely able to stand and get to the side to hold onto some weeds.  YIKES.  I was totally freaked out.  A nice old lady who was out working in her yard saw the whole thing and gave us a towel so she could dry off. 
Obviously Makayla wasn't too traumatized cause 10 minutes later she was down on the platform with her uncle Bry feeding the ducks again.  This was after she fell in, about 30 minutes later.

 Bry getting the rope swing.

 My dad checking it all out from the tree bridge.  That's new this year.  The owners on both sides have really made it all nice and cute with benches and new logs going across.  It's really nice.

 The ducks...there were probably 20 or so down there.  Even though only 2 can be seen here...:)

 Bry playing in the water.  We all dared him to get in.  It was pretty cold.

So we started off the weekend by going down to my cousin Taylor's Eagle Scout Court of Honor.  We are really close with his folks, my Aunt A'donna and Uncle Dwight...so much fun.  So we went down to support Taylor, and represent everyone from my fam, who were ALL out of town.  Disneyland, Bear Lake, and St. George...where the heck is OUR vacation??