St. George Trip

Last week we went to St. George with my family. It was so nice to get away for a while to somewhere warm. Well, warmer than home anyway. We left Monday and took most of the day driving there and getting settled. We had rented a house down there and it was so fun to have my family living under one roof for a week. Most of the vacation was pretty laid back, which was what a vacation is supposed to be, right? I have to mention that in most of these pictures Isaac has a weird smile. I'm hoping it's a stage.

On Tuesday we headed out to the sand dunes with the motorcycles and four wheelers. Greg and I rented a rhino. That was a lot of fun. Don't tell the rental company, but we even let Isaac drive it for a little bit.

Wednesday we made the drive to Las Vegas to do a little shopping. I feel a little bad because I didn't tell Isaac why we were going to Vegas. He's not a big fan of shopping. When he found out, he pouted for a bit and then was pacified by some ice cream.

Thursday we headed over to the local Fiesta Fun for some miniature golf and go-karting. Good times.

Isaac wasn't big enough to drive a go-kart himself, but he got to ride with me and Grandpa. Here's Isaac with Grandpa. I guess he was trash talking the kid next to him telling him how he was going down. I understand that Grandpa got in on the trash talking to. That's kind of messed up, isn't it?

Friday we went over to Zions National Park. Greg had done a little research, and found a little ghost town that was on the way there. It was kind of neat. The name of the town was Grafton, Utah. There was a school house, a church, and a couple of houses left standing. I guess when it had been first settled the people had to move several times because the Virgin River kept flooding them out. They were also attacked by Indians several times.

There was a cemetery there as well, and for some reason that's was interested Isaac the most. He was intent on checking out all the headstones and graves. Honestly, I was a little creeped out by it.

After Grafton we went to Zions. If you've been there recently, you would know that they don't allow cars to drive through most of the park. You have to ride on a shuttle. It actually made the park seem less crowded I think. Here we are by Weeping Rock.

Saturday we went to Vegas again. This time we took Isaac to The Mirage to see the dolphins and white tigers.

Also at the Mirage is the Beatles Love show. As I mentioned in my previous post, Isaac is currently obsessed with the Beatles. We didn't go to the show, but he had to check out the color changing walkway and the gift shop. Here he is as the 5th Beatle.

After, we went to dinner and to a baseball games. Guess who was playing the Vegas Area 51s? the Salt Lake Bees. Yeah, we're die hard fans like that. Just kidding. It just turned out that way. On our way across the parking lot into the game (we were late) one of the security guards ran up to us and gave Isaac a ball that had been hit over the wall. Isaac is convinced that he has a home run ball.

Sunday was a sad day. Time to come home from vacation. It was fun and I am trying to figure out how I can get someone to give me a house in St. George so I can go all the time. Thanks family for the good times!

Random Update

It's been a while since I posted anything, but that's because not much has been going on. I figured I ought write something down for the last month though. Here's a few things we have be doing lately:

*Isaac just started spring soccer. He has four games for spring season. It seems pretty cold out to me to be playing soccer, but he's excited. He starts T-Ball in April and he is really looking forward to that.

*Something else that Isaac has been into lately is The Beatles. He has always been into music. We always have to have it on at home or in the car. But this Beatles thing is boarding on obsession. He knows all the words to "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "Hey Jude". He asked me to make him a Beatles CD to listen to while he falls asleep at night. He has 2 Beatles t-shirts. His favorite artist before The Beatles? Jack Johnson. No Wiggles or Barney at our house! (Yay!) My kid has good taste in music.

*I had a birthday this month. Yay. I think that once you are about, oh, 25, birthdays aren't a big deal anymore. I just can't believe I'm 31. I feel like I'm about 20. My birthday was a good one. We went up to Park City and did some shopping, and out to dinner. Both my family and Greg's family had a party for me. It was nice.

Well, that's about all I've got for now. Like I said not too much going on around here. We do have a vacation coming up soon, so I have something more exciting to say then.

Evil Beware . . .

. . . There's a new superhero in town. Super Isaac!!!


He's super strong.



He can fly




He's not one of those uptight superheros. He's totally casual about his powers.





This has been what we do every night lately. Greg's grandma made this awesome cape for Isaac for Christmas. It may be kind of hard to tell from the pictures, but it has a big letter "I" on the back. The rest of the outfit Isaac put together himself. The gloves are from a play grinder set, and the goggles are sunglasses we got for him when he was about a year old. Yeah. They're a little on the small side. So he'll put this entire set up on and jump from our couch to our LoveSac. Good times.

Christmas 2009 + Winter Fun

So I found my camera in time for Christmas. Yea! Good thing, I would have been really upset if I had nothing to document Christmas this last year. As I mentioned in my last post, Isaac had asked Santa for drums and a rocket. And guess what. Santa is the man. He came through.



As I've mentioned in years past, we are lucky enough to live close to both sides of our family so we visit them on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day as well. My family's annual tradition is breaking a pinata. Somehow Greg and I have inherited the job of providing the pinata. This year, Greg wanted to try his hand at making it. He decided that he'd start with something easy. A snowman. Easy enough, right? Should only take a couple of hours, right? Wrong. He spent an entire weekend and then some on this thing. It turned out really well though.




And then we smashed it to bits.




Here's some more Christmas pictures that don't really need much explanation. For your enjoyment:

We have also spent a lot of time this winter outside playing in the snow. Which, if you know me very well, is not like me at all. I hate the cold. I think that after Christmas it should stop snowing and warm up. Anyway, since I can't control the weather I might as well have some fun. We have been sledding quite a few times this winter. There is a school close by our house that has great sledding hills.

Catching Up

I was doing so well with my four posts in October. Then a month and a half goes by and I fail to post anything. Sigh. I guess that's how it's gonna be.

So here I am, a week before Christmas, updating my blog on the happenings of our family. I missed a post about Halloween. Isaac dressed as an astronaut. He had that planned for months before. We went to a Halloween party hosted by Greg's work. Isaac won the costume contest! He was so proud of himself. His prize was a $25 Visa gift card. Pretty sweet, eh? I took all of 2 pictures of him in his costume, and now I've lost my camera. This picture is stolen from my family's blog.

He would go around saying, "One small step for man, one giant leap for Isaac!"

We had a great Thanksgiving as well. We went to Greg's parents' house this year. They always have such good food. Yummy.

And now we have just been busy getting ready for Christmas. We took Isaac to see Santa Clause a few weeks ago. He asked him for some drums and a rocket ship. He has been really into space and astronauts lately. (Just to point out the obvious.) He also asked Santa why he gave the bad kids coal. I don't think that was a question Santa was prepared to answer. LOL. He mumbled something about how that's only a gift for kids who have been bad.

Other than that, not much else is going on around our house. We have just been busy with the normal things. Here's to hoping I can find my camera so I can take some pictures on Christmas!

The Heckler

Allow me to tell you a little story. It requires some background, so bear with me. As you probably know we are University of Utah fans at our house. Which means by default we want BYU to loose to whomever they are playing, right? Well, last weekend BYU played Texas Christan University (TCU), so naturally we were rooting for them. Our bishop is a die-hard BYU fan. He and Greg have a constant friendly rivalry going on and make jokes with each other about their respective teams. Also last weekend was the primary program in our ward. Isaac and I were both involved in it and went to a practice run through on Saturday morning at the church. On our way out the door, Greg said to Isaac, "When you see the bishop, tell him 'Go Horned Frogs'!". (TCU's mascot) I just rolled my eyes and rushed out the door with Isaac because we were late. (We're always late.) I completely forgot about Greg's instructions to Isaac until Sunday when after the primary had finished with their Sacrament meeting program and the Bishop was walking up to the pulpit to make some closing remarks at the end of the meeting. Isaac was sitting right by the stairs to come up to the stand. I was sitting with the class I teach right behind him. I saw it coming. Isaac got this big smile on his face. He looked right at the bishop and said. "Go Horned Frogs!" Nice. Thanks, Greg. Later, in the adult meeting the bishop told anyone who didn't hear Isaac what had happened. He said that he stumbled with what he was going to say in the meeting because he was so taken back by what Isaac had said. Well, at least I know Isaac is loyal to the Utes.

Oh, and BYU lost to TCU :).

Las Vegas

WHAT! Three posts in one month! BAGOWZA! (That's a shout-out to my sis) And October isn't even over. It's a Halloween miracle.


I realize that most of this blog is about my kiddo. Why not though? He's fun. He's cute. He's a heck of a lot more interesting than me. But I thought I'd post about something fun that Greg and I did earlier this month. Every year Greg, my sister, her husband, Dan, and me try to go on a vacation. It's usually only for a couple of nights and it's usually to Las Vegas. Normally we try to go in February or March, but if you remember Greg didn't have a job at that time so it wouldn't have been too smart of us to go blow our money in the city of sin. We decided to put it off for a while. We were watching for a good deal on airfare, and it paid off. We were able to fly to Vegas for cheaper than we would have been able to drive. Awesome. Isaac stayed with Greg's parents and was spoiled beyond belief. He loved every minute of it.


It was so nice to hang out by the pool, stay out late, and be irresponsible for a few days. We did a lot of shopping and went to the Beatles Cirque du Soleil Love show. That was really cool. It's amazing what those performers can do.

This is the walkway into the theater for the show. It changes colors all the time.




Here's Melanie, Greg, and Dan playing the Beatles Rockband game at the gift shop. I'd post the video too, but Melanie would prolly kill me for posting a video of her singing.




We also went to old Las Vegas and Fremont Street. It's something we've been meaning to do in the 3 or 4 years we have been going.

Me, Melanie and Dan underneath the video screen that spans the entire length of the street.