Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Winter Trips!

The best way to beat winter blahs is to go on a trip! The first one we went on was in the middle of January to Island park with Nate's family. We went cross country skiing, played games and more cross country skiing, it was fun and really pretty!





This is the little frozen river right behind our cabin we shared with Liz and Rex's family. Paul and Joann shared a yurt with D.J., David and Acacia and little Evia.



Over Valentine's/ President's Day weekend we escaped the cold and took a 16 hour drive down to Tucson Arizona to visit Nate's brother Chris and his wife Brittany. It was a long drive but D.j. came with us and helped A LOT with the boys in the back, and their occasional puke!



It was sunny and warm and the boys were fascinated with the red dirt and ALL the cactus!



We spent a day at "Old Tucson" which was all about cowboys and the wild west, it was fun "driving" old fashioned cars, eating pricey pizza and watching gun shows and stunt shows.



Neil wore his sunglasses like that in purpose, the whole day, he said he was a surfer!





We rode on and old fashioned carousel Cody loved it, but Neil spent the whole ride staring at the scary looking horse behind him, wondering when it was going to catch up to him!



The boys wanted to ride the train first thing when we got there and not many people where there yet, so no one else was on the train, it was like our own private ride, and the boys loved it! They thought the conductor was pretty cool too!





It was so warm and so fun to be with family that it was hard to leave, especially coming back home to more snow!

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Cody Turns 5!

At the January Sunday dinner with my family we celebrated my Dad and Cody's birthdays:



Jaron had made the cutest map for Cody to follow to his birthday presents!




On his actual birthday Cody had both sets of Grandparents over for his favorite dinner of shrimp shish-ka-bobs, rice and edemame, followed by his request for Dinosaur Train birthday cake! We decorated with his favorite color-green, and he even shared one of his presents with Neil, some tongue-color-changing fruit roll up, so nice.

Our new-ish house!

Another thing I forgot to mention from December is the best present of all, our house! Although we'd been living here since the end of June, we finally closed on it the end of December and we became official mortgage owners again. Renting was kind of nice, but security is better!

Cody on his new bike out front.