Our Trip to Moab

We had so much fun on our trip to Moab a couple weeks ago. (I'm a little slow posting) We went down with Jarett & Shari and their kids. We only stayed a couple of days, but it was still fun.

The weather was wonderful! We went the first night, and watched the sunset through one of the arches at Arches National Park. The kids had a lot of fun climbing on all the rocks, and Weston & I had fun trying out my new Christmas present (new camera) I know, it's not Christmas, but I couldn't resist! The next day we went on a 4 mile hike with the kids. Picture this, if you will, 4 adults 7 kids, & 2 dogs, on a 5 HOUR HIKE!!! (It's a good thing I color my hair, my grey would have been shining through after that one!) We had to cross the little stream that ran down the center of the canyon at least a hundred and fifty thousand times! Ok, so maybe not quite that many, but it sure seemed like a lot. The kids had a lot of fun, even though every inch of them was wet, and covered in sand. I guess those kind of things don't bother kids, if they are having fun. But next time, I think that Shari & I should get to pick the hiking spot. All in all, it was a great weekend, too bad we couldn't stay for a bit longer. Maybe next year!

Weston's New Obsession

Ok, so Weston now has a new obsessive hobby. Kiting! Year round abandonment! If there is ever any wind around we can count on Weston to be calling up Kyrk and heading off to chase the wind. He has so much fun doing it I can't really complain about him leaving, too much. I don't have any pics of him with his new kite (It's purple ;) ) But I do have some of him during the winter up on the skyline. He found out about this "amazingly fun sport" while we were on vacation to the Dominican Republic a few years ago. He took a couple lessons while we were there, and had a lot of fun. But, he didn't really think too much about it until Kyrk got into it about a year ago, and needed someone to go with him. Weston was more than willing to oblige! So now he spends any of his free time that he possibly can down at the lake. I was hoping that the weather would stay warm a little longer so that I could get a few pics during the summer (I usually don't get to go watch, I'm usually home with the kids), but I don't think it's going to happen. There's always next year :)

Paige's 8th Birthday

For Paige's birthday party with her friends she wanted to go to Build-A-Bear, with her friends. So we borrowed Grandma's van, and off we went! The girls each got to pick a "friend" to build. Zoie of course has to be the odd man out and picked a puppy, while everyone else chose a bear. They played games and got to pick out clothes for their bears. Afterwords they went to the park, and had pizza and opened presents. Paige said that it was her "Best birthday Ever!".

Here We Go....

Ok, so Heidi has informed me that we need to "Jump onto the Blogging Bandwagon", so to speak. I'm not sure how exciting we are, but we'll give it a go.