Canton is going to miss Ben and Becky SOOOOO much!  Not only are they super fun outside people, but they also do CRAZY stuff like this:

Watch out Robin Thicke! 😉

Who has two thumbs and LOVES Aunt Becky and Uncle Ben?

THIS GUY!

Here to tell you about Canton’s day hiking Massanutten Mountain, special guest blogger:  BECKY!

The three muskateers completed the 6 mile Massanutten Rim Trail with Canton giving us a big surprise with how well he hiked. He only needed piggy back rides for about a mile total on the trip. Multiple hikers along the way stopped to comment on Canton’s rugged camo hat and he soon told them all about his new Camelbak which helped keep him hydrated along the way. Throughout the adventure Canton learned about how trails are marked by spotting “blue clues” and making good choices in steps such as large, flat rocks and dirt instead of wobbly, pointy rocks. Canton enjoyed the view from the top and thought it was pretty funny that we were higher than the birds and that semi trucks looked so tiny from up high. The highlight of the trip was probably holding a millipede and feeling all the tiny legs. In Canton’s words “climbing up the mountain was pretty fantastic because I learned about trail markers in the mysterious forest.”

It has been one whole month since our sweet girl came into the world.

Liberty is a GREAT baby, we really are quite lucky.  She is doing well on her milestones, she loves to focus on a face, roll partway from her stomach to back, (even though Mike has seen it multiple times the whole way) she brings her hands together well, bats at objects, but our favorite is her smile.

She’s sleeping about five hours at her longest stretch, which is quite a welcome from those every two hours days.  She’s weighing in at about 9lbs 10oz and 21.25 inches.

Liberty is pretty lucky, to celebrate her month (and to ease the pain of mom going back to work) Becky and Ben are here for the week!!

Here’s to all the amazing months to come! 🙂

Canton has been SUCH a big help lately we decided he needed a day of fun out of the house.  Boy, did he ever have fun!  He greatly enjoyed himself at the Monster Truck Rally on 7/26.  He was in awe of these machines and all they could do, but he still noticed Venus and various stars in the sky 😉

Canton!