Ever have one of those perfect days?
With a week chalked full of depressing, stressful, and really heavy stuff, I was granted a huge break of sunshine yesterday.
I found out that the kids didn't have school, and that my wife didn't have to do any work. Her only plan was to get Logan in to have his picture taken.
Well, while she was doing that, I took Noah and Gracie over to Gabriel skatepark.
Noah was rolling into the ramps and doing long turns on the other side of the snake run. He finally felt that 'carve' you feel when you hit a wall just right.
He was hooked.
Gracie rolled all around the park on her scooter, going super fast and up and over bumps. She jumped into the big bowl and rode around for a while too, having a blast.
Eventually she decided to climb this huge grassy hill and pick little daisy flowers and packed my backpack full of them. She then realized it'd be more fun to roll down the hill over and over again. Then she played in the giant sand box (aka beach vollyball area).
I had my eyes on the big wall at the park. A giant 9' tall half-pipe that I threw myself at as hard as I could. Almost got a grind too. Almost...
I've never been up that high on a ramp before. It was probably the biggest and fastest I've ever gone. It was such a rush.
We went home and got some lunch and then went to the zoo as a whole family. I gave Noah my camera and Gracie has her own little one and I also gave them a list of things to photograph as a mission (Fire Hydrant. Monkey. Logan making a funny face. Lion. Etc). They had a blast.
If you want to keep kids in line and busy, just give them cameras. It worked great!
After that we dropped Gracie off at ballet lessons and the rest of us went to Old Navy to get some clothes.
I bought my first pair of 34" waist pants ever. I've been at 36" for a while now, but they've gotten baggy on me. I was pretty surprised at this.
Jaqui tried on pants and was SO close to dropping down to the next size. Not much more and she'll be there. She was so excited to be buying clothes right off the rack at Old Navy and not having to go to Torrid or something. She's worked so hard to get to this point and I was so excited for her.
We went home, had a dinner that everyone loved (which is a rarity!), dropped Noah off at his baseball practice, went to the gym, came home and put kids to bed.
I then did ironing and watched "Biggest Loser" with Jaqui.
I went to bed with thoughts and visions of me carving 9' up on a huge concrete wall.
That is how you live a day.