Our First Outing

Yesterday we had an absolute wonderful day. We went on our first outing. As Jess would say, "We took the short bus to Evergreen Co." It was about a 30-45 minute drive from Craig and despite our worries Briley was great throughout the entire trip. For those of you who may know the area Evergreen is out past Redrock. Over all it was about a 4 hour outing. We went to a great pizza joint called Beaujos (Sp?). They served honey with there pizza. Which I must say you should try on you pizza crust. It may sound strange, but it was really good. And then after lunch we just hung out around town. A lot of people "rolled" :) around town, but Jess Briley and I stayed around a bridge that was near the pizza place. There were about 30 ducks in the river that kept Briley pretty entertained. By the time we were ready to go home Briley was getting really tired, and we were worrying that she may scream the whole way back (she has been doing that sometimes), but she was absolutely wonderful. About a mile or two down the road she fell asleep and slept until we pulled into Craig's parking lot. What a great finish to our first outing.

After we got back Jess picked up his guitar for the first time. It was definitely a struggle, but I was impressed with how much he was able to do. We had no idea what his left hand would be able to do. By the end of the hour he had a couple of cords that he was able to play and transition to without the help of his right hand. I must say I was very impressed! Oh and Briley loved dancing to dad's music!!!

Today was a good lazy day. Briley and I hung out at the apartment until almost 11am and when we went over to see Jess he was still in bed. He was dealing with more bladder spasms, so he ended up staying in bed most of the afternoon and watching college football or"booball," as Briley call's it.

Briley and I took a nice walk to Safeway for a grocery run this afternoon. I'm a terrible judge of distance, but I would say its maybe 2 miles round trip. But let me tell you, climbing that hill coming back with Briley in my baby pack and pushing a stroller full of groceries is a great workout. By the way, thanks Candy for the baby pack, Briley loves it and I don't know what I would do without it.

Jess got up later in the afternoon and spent some time playing guitar and catching up on the blog. We went and ate dinner in the cafeteria with another couple and then came back to his room and just hung out. So yea, it was a lazy family day.

We got Jess' schedule for this coming week and its starting to pick up a bit. He is starting a new educational class as well as pool therapy. So I guess its ok to be lazy :)