Iris's faces

A few weeks ago Al and I stopped in Santa Barbara for a night to see Danny and Kaity and the kids. There's always plenty of entertainment to be had there, but the two things that kept my attention most this time were:
1) Lily is crazy, and
 2) Iris knows it

When she's awake, she makes sure her eyes are wide open, and that she always looks at least a little unsure about things:

As for this one...

...here was MY favorite exchange of the day:


Lily (spinning in a circle): "one two four five six nemenate nine ten!! one two four five six nemenate nine ten!!"
Danny: "Lily, what about three? you forgot to say three."
Lily, with a very severe scowl: "I DON'T NEED THAT NUMBER!! I don't NEEEEED that NUMBER!!"  

 Love my nieces and nephews!

photo by dave

chinaman's hat.

Ellie next to our Dogwood in full bloom.

Moab Trip

First Camping Trip

Garrett  and I had our very first camping trip together.  We left Friday afternoon and I had no temper problems while getting ready to go.  I was even happy when the road was closed to get to where we originally wanted to go.  We went on a nice bike ride on Friday when we got there.  I fell when I went around a corner of snow, it was pretty funny.  We had chicken foil dinners: carrots, jalepenos, onion, corn, cream of chicken soup, chicken chunks, and seasoned with dry Italian Dressing mix.   For breakfast we ate scrambled eggs with ham, green onion, and cheese.  After breakfast, we went on another bike ride!  We went up hill for about an hour, then turned around and went down!  It was so much fun and really tiring. We had to be home by 1 to go give blood at the stake center.  We were sad because we forgot our Contour video camera, but on our next excursion, we will be sure to take some videos.

Garrett is so proud of his car.  He wanted to make sure you could see  his collection of stickers on the back.

Happy Birthday to the Pairs!

I drove home on Mom and Dad's birthday to see them.  We went to Ellie's soccer game, which she lost, but she did very well. Ellie is an amazing goalie if anyone didn't know! And then we went to the 5-mile house for dinner. It was so delicious! The Dahles came with us too. It was such a fun weekend. We have the best parents in the world!

They gave me a birthday ice cream too :)