Zach and I decided to do a little something different for vacation this year. Instead of always taking pictures of just the two of us, (which we did as well, oops!) we chose to build-a-bear to have something a little different! His name is Lloyd Christmas. :) (His name comes from Zach's favorite movie and goes along with where we decided to go on vacation, Aspen.)
We would carry LC in our backpack and people thought it was the cutest thing ever. If Zach was a single man, he would have picked up so many girls! LC was just like a brand new puppy, ha. We thought it was funny when an older gal said, "Well, now I can say I saw a bear on our hike today!" but when we heard it for the 40th time, the joke was kind of dead. But we still laughed along with every person anyways. It was a great topic starter and people loved how adorable he was. Definitely a tradition we will keep up for many vacations to come. And we decided that someday, we would pass LC on to our children to do the same thing. :)
--> Here's LC at the Maroon Bells in Aspen, Colorado.
--> Here is LC at Hanging Lake. He had quite the time hiking up the trail, but was thrilled when he made it to the top. The view was impeccable. 
--> Lastly, here's a picture of LC with Zach and I at Hanging Lake again. :) 