Santa Rosa Plateau

We went on a little hike with our friends the Petitts. It was a lovely day with lots of blue sky and sun. These trails are only 15 minutes from our house, and several are stroller friendly, so I think it will be a place we visit more often. The kids had fun running, playing in the dirt, picking flowers, and being happy.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! Mom and Paul, Becka and Brian, and Aunt Debbie came over for Easter dinner and Becka's BDay. Isaac enjoyed his first egg hunt organized by Jarom who up until recently thought egg hunts, Santa Clause, and Halloween dress up were silly Pagan holidays- amazing how kids change you! Each egg contained a fruit snack, Isaac's favorite treat. It took him a few tries to get the gist of the "hunt". But once he caught on, the hunt went something like this: find an egg, shake the egg to discover the treat, bite the egg to open it, laugh and get excited at finding the fruit snack, eat the fruit snack, drop the egg on the ground (the basket was a nuisance), run to the next egg, repeat. Funny kid! After all the eggs were found he revisited the opened eggs hoping for more snacks, but was disappointed to find them empty. Do you like our grass?

San Diego Zoo

In Feburary we went to the San Diego Zoo with our fun friends, the Petitt's. The day was sunny and beautiful! The kids had a great time! Isaac had a hard time transfering in and out of the stroller (mostly going back in); so sometimes he just had to stay on "lock down". His favorite times were the exibit walkways when he only had one direction to go so I could let him run wild. Haley held onto his leash and ran with him down the trail; she loved that too. Thanks Petitt's for the fun day!

Christmas 2008

I'm catching up slowly but surely! Here is Christmas! The first group is with the Renfeldt Christmas. Anna got this awesome RC car and she and Isaac loved to be driven around in it. Aren't they sweet!

Guitar Hero was the favorite gift among the big kids. And Isaac liked Anna's baby stroller.

We visited Tom's Farms and froze our tooshies off, but had a good time none the less.

Nathen is getting so big and handsome. He is always happy and smiling!


The next group of pics is of the Skinner Christmas. In my Aunt and Uncle's association they have a snow day each year the week before Christmas. They make snow in someone's front yard with a sleding hill and play area. The whole neighborhood comes out to play and eat cookies and drink hot cocoa. Santa was there too taking kids for a ride atop a firetruck! The kids had a blast!

Isaac of course found the patch of mud and sampled it. Yumm!

Here is Christmas with my mom.

Isaac LOVES his Uncle Brian!

Guitar Hero still the fav toy among the big kids.

Mom showing off her tennis skills (and many facial expressions) on the Wii.

Isn't Mom cute?!


Christmas morning. Just us at home. Isaac got this lion rug and was very excited. He loves to show off his lion ROAR!

Bub in boots!

Camping and Jeeping Adventures

Over the past few months we have gone camping several times with our Jeep club or with friends from our ward. Camping is much easier now with our new truck and camper set up. Jarom picked this truck up with only 26K miles for a sweet deal because the insurance company had totaled it just for having all the interior ripped out. The camper makes a warm and more comfortable place for eating and sleeping with a toddler. It has provided some good times already and more to come. Isaac always loves a new adventure and new dirt and rocks to taste.

Aren't they cute!?

The new set up.

Isaac exploring some abandoned mining equipment.

What a bunch of sweeties!

Nice ride! Sweet skills!

Isaac loves sitting in the driver seat and is always happy playing there.

Florida Trip- Our Rad Hotel

Amidst all the business of buying a house, moving, and holiday preparation, Jarom was invited to attend and present at a manufacturing and engineering expo at the convention center in Orlando Florida with his expenses paid. Pretty sweet! So we paid for my plane ticket and made it a family vacation with really bad timing.
Here are some pics of our AWESOME hotel, The Gaylord Palms Hotel. It was huge to start with, and was divided into 4 regions: Key West (the pics with the boat) with a Caribbean feel, The Everglades with lush vegetation, mist, and sounds; Emerald Bay with a giant octopus pool and waterslide (in picture), and St. Augustine complete with a Spanish castle. All the vegetation in the pics is real and amazing.

Florida Trip- Yoda Sighting

Our flight to Orlando left on Halloween night. This was going to be Isaac’s first Halloween that he was old enough to participate in, and we didn’t want to miss out, so he wore his Yoda ears on the plane (a red eye flight) and to the hotel the next morning. He was a sight to see with his giant ears, pj's and monkey backpack; he got a lot of laughs and waves, and even some candy!