Easter Light & Bear Crawls

We spent Easter weekend at the farm with Ken's family. We enjoyed:
- planting trees,
- loading wood on the trailer,
- filling & hiding Easter eggs,
- the egg hunt, and
- a great Easter meal!

Bear crawls are one of my favorite bootcamp exercises. The kids took it up a notch doing bear crawls up and over a labyrinth of tree limbs.

When the sun broke through later in the weekend, it was glorious. Also glorious was Carrie Underwood's "How Great Thou Art" with Vince Gill. Wow.

Questions for You:
- What's your favorite or least favorite bootcamp or bodyweight exercise?
- Elvis' version or Carrie's version? Or Susan Boyle's version?

photos by me.

Dragonfly Eggs, OWS & Trail Running

Last week we went to my inlaws' "farm" -- FUN time including:
- An open water swim with my husband. Parts of the lake were weedy, creating a kelp-like forest to swim through or across. It reminded me of past vacations to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and to the Seattle Aquarium. Sea Otters are the cutest!

- While the kids splashed around in the pond/mud, I took dragonfly pictures. One dragonfly was pulsing/dipping her tail into the water and laying eggs. My camera has a delay, but it was fun to watch. In the second picture on the top row you can see her body is vertical and touching the pond. I think the dragonfly in the second picture on the bottom row looks like an x-wing starfighter.

- Then, while on a trail run I saw my favorite dragonfly--the big one (see picture bottom left). In April one year this dragonfly hung out by our dryer vent for a few days. I thought it was dead or frozen, but two days later it flew away! Two weeks ago my toddler and I saw another one at the park near our house. I saw one by the pond too, but couldn't catch it with my camera.

I saw the dragonfly near this area of the farm, though this photo was taken in the fall, it's one of my favorite sections to walk, run, jog through with a combination of pines and sand.

- Other dragonflies at the pond.

- Ken with our toddler riding the 4-wheeler (he was going slow, but it made me nervous.)

Questions for You:

- What insect do you like?

- How do you feel about swimming through, on and around weeds?

photos by me