Two Wheeler and T Ball

Just this week Isaac learned how to ride his bike without training wheels. It took him less than four days to figure it out. He's such a big kid! Our one problem is that where we live is all hills. Once you get out of our driveway, you either have to go up the hill or down the hill. And I'm not talking a gentle slope. These are STEEP hills. So, in order for a newbie bike rider to get some practice time in, we go over to the junior high school by our house and ride on the running track. It works out great.

Way too go Isaac. He definitely needs a bigger bike, but he is working on "earning" that.

Also, just recently, Isaac finished his first season of T ball. He was on the Arizona Diamondbacks. I must say, I think I like T ball better than soccer. He did so much better in this sport. We will be signing up again next year for sure. It took him a few games to get the idea of it. This is how he looked at the beginning of the season:

A little confused. Not quite sure what he was supposed to do. But he took to it quickly. Here he is at the end of the season:

Look at that concentration! LOL. He got a trophy at the last game, and it is his most prized possession.

Preschool Graduation Part 1

Isaac graduated from his first year of preschool last week. He has a late birthday, so he misses the cutoff for kindergarten this year. Soooo, he gets to go to preschool again in the fall. Which is fine with me, I'm not quite ready to have a kid in "real" school. Although, he could be totally ready for kindergarten if he needed to be. Anyway, enough rambling and on to some pictures.

Here he is with his cute teacher, Mrs. Kaye. She's the best.




Giving his part in the program. Just to brag a bit, he was the only kid who had his part memorized. Genius! :)

Yeah! Congrats Isaac! You did so well, you get to do it again next year!

Running Like Crazy

Apparently someone has put something in the water at our house. We've been running entirely too much. And I'm not talking about just being busy running around, I'm talking literally running.

Last weekend Greg ran the Ogden half marathon. 13.1 miles. He did great! He finished in 1:51, which is awesome. He's even thinking about doing a full marathon.

And then there's me. Somehow I got talked into this:

It's a 180 mile relay race from Brian Head Resort to St. George. I'm doing it with 11 other women in my neighborhood. Honestly, I'm a little terrified.

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.