Outside

With this beautiful weather lately we've been getting out of the house as much as possible, taking full advantage of it while it's nice! We've been spending a lot of time riding bikes because it's fun, easy and the best exercise! We live right by the Riverbed and can take it down for miles, turn around and come back and all of a sudden we've gone 8 or 10 miles! We are trying to live the healthy lifestyle and this amazing weather is helping!!


While it's nice outside, it can get chilly for Alana because she is getting all the breeze, so we make sure to bundle her up! She loves the bike rides and I can't wait for her to be able to ride her own along side of us!

Loving the family bike riding time! Priceless!

Alana's hair is so dang long!! I've been trying to figure out new ways of doing it and ways to keep it back without just a pony tail! This was my first attempt at a French Braid! I was pretty excited it came out nice! Her hair is crazy in color! People think I've streaked it, but it's all natural beauty!! She's sooo lucky to have such beautiful hair! She'll probably hate it when she's a teen because God knows I did... too much of it!

Heading out in the beautiful Saturday sun to do some hiking!

Believe it or not in Orange County in the Santa Ana Mountains you can find some of the best trails! I felt like we weren't even in OC anymore. We drove and drove and even did some off roading to get to this nice spot!! Crossed a few streams and only stopped when they had a gate up! A big stream ran down the side of the trail, it was so sarine!

The more recent rains made some of the most beautiful scenes. This rock was covered in Moss and was the prettiest color green!

Alana did so amazing! She was the smallest kid out on the trails! So many people would walk by and she was hiking up the trail and say "Oh, she's so little to be up here". But she was awesome! We walked uphill for an hour in the beautiful trails! Then we thought we should probably turn around because that meant an hour down as well! That's a LOT of walking and climbing for a 2 1/2 year old! So we turned around and headed back!

We had to cross 2 different "streams" there and back, which was very interesting! There were rocks and logs to cross over the streams but that was not an easy task!

We didn't make it all the way up like we wanted to but for having Alana with us the day was just perfect and just the amount of hiking! On the way down daddy decided to give her a break!

Victor and I will go back soon and hike all the way up, maybe Alana will hang out with Grandma that day! Days and weekends like these are what I live for these days! A new healthy lifestyle is right up my alley and I'm loving every minute of it!

**Another weigh in today! More success!!! I'm down a little over 6 pounds from the last 2 weeks! Very excited and a lot of work, but we'll worth it!