Valentine's Day... April in Zions

My dear love reminded me that it has been a super long time since I blogged and since work's been slow this week I am going to do my best to catch up. For Valentine's Day I arranged for Eric and I to go to Zions in April. It was the PERFECT time of the year to go, not too hold - certainly not too cold. There were waterfalls everywhere! We stayed at this way super nice RV park where everyone - and I mean everyone - had the crazy nice way expensive RV/buses or trailers and there we were in our Ninja Turtle, it was somewhat embarassing. Our water doesn't work on it so we had to crouch out by the spiget that is supposed to be hooked up to your RV and wash our dishes there and what not like a couple of hobos. It was fun though...

This was our first hike, the Emerald Pools.

Of course, we have to take pictures of the signs for Tommy, and he still laughs hysterically about these two:

Like I said, there were waterfalls all over the place!

A view from behind the twin waterfalls....

I think this one is the White Throne, but now it's been 4 months since we went so my memory's become a little foggy.

Here we are on our way up to the famous/infamous Angel's Landing.

I wish I had a way to trace the trail so it's easier to see. This is the view point from Scout Lookout, which is where a lot of people stop. It's just before the trail starts getting tricky and you have the chains to hang on to so you don't fall off.

This is where the chain area starts, they are still hard to see because I have a crappy camera that can't zoom, but the trail just goes right along that outcropping to the top. At this point I quit taking pictures of this hike like an idiot. Granted, there were some parts that you should be hanging onto the chain with both hands and not taking pictures, but there were plenty of spots I could have whipped the camera out - it was a really cool trail and this is it for all the pictures I got of it. Next time I will do better!

This was my favorite hike, Hidden Canyons. Here's Eric going up a practically endless flight of stone stairs that were cut right into the mountain.

This trail also had some parts with the chains, but the trail really is wide enough for the most part that you don't need them anyway. I made Eric pose for this picture pretending to cling the chain for his life.

This part was a bit steep and narrow and we were glad to have the chains.

There was a bunch of bouldering and stuff you had to do on this hike to get the next part, it was really fun doing the rock scrambles and in this case, climbing up logs that were just leaning against the rocks.

Look at my crazy husband, this was so steep!

On our last hike, River Walk it was called I think (the trail you take to get to the Narrows) there were squirrels everywhere. They'd run right up to you in hopes of some treats.

Muskrat love....

The last bit of wildlife we saw, a little lizard sunning itself on the fence post.



The end!

Museum of War

Sooo.... you may not remember me, but, well, it's me. I'm not going to waste a lot of time with blabber on why I haven't blogged - I'm sure you can figure out that I've been busy ;)

Tommy's latest obsession, much to my dismay at times, is war. He has tons of little plastic army guys, many from Eric and his dad. Anyway, he compiles them into separate wars and makes a musuem out of his room - it's open for business about once a month. These are pics from the second time he did it. He takes you on a tour and explains each war and gives little interesting facts about them - I even learned some things I didn't know.

Cowboys & Indians War

Iraq War

Vietnam War

Korean War

Desert Storm

Afghanistan

I think this is the Korean War again...

World War II is his favorite, it's the on the brown table. On the plastic drawer set is the Civil War.

We went skiing at the Canyons :) on Feb. 6th - I know this because I accidentally scheduled it for the same day as Ashlee's wedding! Fortunately for me, her wedding wasn't until later in the day so we just left the slopes early and got ready.

A blurry shot of where Ashlee and Jake got married.....

Awwww :)

Isn't she lovely? Isn't she beautiful? That little b**ch. J/K!

Too many beers for Foosa...

No really, he's having a great time!

Tommy and Foosa sleeping together :)

I did promise Eric I'd bake him pies, here is my first ever attempt at pie baking....

2010... Resolve to Blog?

Well, I didn't resolve to blog, but I do hope to be able to do it more often than once every 3 months at least. The kids put on a wildly successful "Haunted House" the night before Halloween. People from my office came as well as friends and family. They made over $50 and did a pretty good job... here are some pics of their costumes and the kitchen gore.

Make a note of the awful kitchen flooring you see in the backround, it will be addressed soon...

Eric got me roses for Thanksgiving, what a sweetie!

Time warp, it's Christmas! Unfortunately I spaced the camera at our house, but here are some pics at Eric's mom's house. We got the kids new bikes for Christmas, I am bound and determined that they learn how to ride bikes this year. Eric got my bike fixed for Christmas so I'm excited to be able to ride as well :)

They got Tommy some soldier gear from the Army surplus place, he loved it of course. He is now a general.

Remember the horrible kitchen floor? Here it is torn up:

And here is the lovely new floor my daddy put in:

Kitties....