Busy Week Already!

As usual, we've been keeping ourselves busy. Monday Mara took her first set of board exams (USMLE, but I'll let her post about that). I asked Nicole to come watch Rohan for a couple of hours and I surprised Mara with a post-test celebratory trip to a cool little wine bar near our place called Uncorked. It was really relaxing, plus the wine & cheese were awesome! We missed that sort of thing in Kirksville. We then picked up Rohan (who LOVED his time with Nico) and head up to Sunflower, AZ. I had picked a little spot out to go stargazing using Google Maps & Google Sky so we drove up north of the Tortilla Flats into the Mine & Boulder Mountains. There is a trailhead for the Ballantine Trail which we parked at and watched the stars float by. It was really beautiful weather ~80F. We stargazed for over an hour before we figured we'd better head back. We were attracting animals and ants so we'd rather not confront a mountain lion...:)

Last night we went on our longest jog since the half marathon last year, and 8 mile jog to the base of McDowell Mountain. It felt really good, and had a solid elevation change of about 300 feet right at the base, so that was pretty strenuous. That and it was at the halfway point so it kicked our butts at 4 miles. The run back was pretty too. Since we were 300 feet about Scottsdale we had a nice view coming back, especially since it was 11:30 at night...:) We got back and after laying Rohan down (who slept through the whole run!) we hit the pool to cool off and the hot tub to relax our legs a little. They are a little sore today, but the hot tub helped tremendously!

Rohan is growing like a weed as well! We really notice him stretching out lengthwise. He's getting a lot stronger now also. He's holding on when we pick him up, and sitting up really good too (not quite on his own yet). He's also found his feet and plays with them quite a bit. Rohan has also enjoyed playing "Popcorn" on the bed...see the video for his giggles.

Since Mara was in study mode on Saturday night, I went to a Diamondbacks game (that's baseball Jen...:P) with Greg & Nico. We hung out at their pool then hit the game while Mara puppy/baby/house sat. It was a good game, lots of run, but the D-Backs didn't win. We didn't stay for the Lifehouse concert afterwards, which Greg really wanted to see, but he would have lost his last "Man Card" if he stayed to we spared him the humiliation...:)

Enjoy the pics & vid from this week so far:

Popcorn!