Falling Behind!

Sorry I've been slacking with the blog...I am here now to catch up!

First of all, last Wednesday I west to the free day at the Hogle Zoo with my friends Coralee and Katrina from church. It was my first time to the zoo and it was a lot of fun! It was snowing when we went (for the first half) so most of the animals were inside. I can't wait to go again in the spring sometime when more of the animals are out, and also when Danny is a little more attentive. He ended up sleeping most of the time! Thanks ladies for the fun adventure!


The front entrance covered in ice! I loved it. I took the picture for Kenneth who wants to go ice climbing so badly.


We finally got inside to see animals without a plate of glass between us and Danny conked out!

Then, last Thursday we got our new camera (Nikon D5000) in the mail! We sold our fabulous camera about 3 weeks ago so that we could upgrade!! We basically have the same camera in terms of features and quality, except that our new one has a video camera also! We naturally wanted to get some video of our cute little guy (especially since we've missed 8 months worth of good video already!).

Here are some new photos of Danny (Kenneth went a little nuts once the camera came):









I'll post a video soon...it wouldn't load...

Anyway, we decided to go for a walk on Friday "in da' hood" as we call it. Here are random photos from that.









Saturday we had splendid weather! Kenneth set up a slackline in the backyard and Danny enjoyed laying in the grass, soaking up the sun!



For those who don't know or understand what slacklinging is, here is a play-by-play:














My brother Michael and his wife Kim drove up from Las Vegas on Friday and on Saturday I attended a baby shower for Kim who is due with their first (Jonathan Michael Adams) on April 4th. It was a lot of fun getting together with friends and family to celebrate! (Unfortunately I got no photos!)

Saturday evening, Kim had a second baby shower and so, instead of hanging out with more women, Michael opted to hang out with me, Kenneth, Danny, our friend Jose and Jose's baby, Eli (Jose's wife, Analee was at the shower with Kim). So, we met up at Memorial Grove? park (east of the Capital) for Geocaching! It was the first time Kenneth and I have been. It was a lot of fun!! For those who don't know what it is, nighttime geocaching is where you follow a trail of reflective markers until you find the "cache". The markers are found on trees and look like this:



I think I would prefer the night ones versus the daytime ones. Anyway, after traversing a river and going on a couple of "cliffs" we found out prize!



Apparently the caches look different for most of the trails. We were all excited!









Sunday we were invited to a family dinner with my sister-in-law - Kim's family. We had fabulous fajitas, salad, cake and chips & salsa. It was so much fun eating good food, sitting around and talking, and playing with kids. We had a fabulous weekend!

In other news, Danny is teething...his two bottom teeth are coming in. We took a photo last Thursday of his one tooth, and his second tooth cut through on Saturday. Oh boy!

Night Skiing at Brighton

Last Friday, Kenneth and I went night skiing at Brighton (well...snowboarding actually). It was amazing because for the first time I actually felt like I was improving by leaps and bounds! I was improving on my turns, and actually got up the courage to go straight for more than half a second. Kenneth is of course amazing at snowboarding and had fun in the park. He tried out the half-pipe and also did some crazy jumps! Go Kenneth! We both had a great time!


Blurry, but cool picture


Going fast and STRAIGHT!


On the ski lift

Can't wait to go again!

Are you looking for a photographer?

...because if you are, call my husband! Kenneth loves doing photography and does a great job! He is open to anything: weddings, engagements, family, infants and anything else you can think of! He has several reasonably priced packages (which you can find on this photography blog). If you are interested, please check out his blog:

http://immaculateimage.blogspot.com/

If you like what you see, bookmark it, and give Kenneth a call whenever you, or someone you know, needs photos done. His contact information can be found on his blog.

I will also be adding his link to my "Favorites" category on the side bar.

Thanks!

To The West...

So Monday was President's Day. Kenneth didn't have school and I, of course, no longer work! This is how our conversation went that morning:

Me: Hey Kenneth, what should we do today?

Kenneth: I don't know, what do you want to do?

Me: I don't know! That's why I'm asking you!

Kenneth: I don't know, what do you want to do?

Me: Oh my gosh! Just pick something!

Kenneth: Ok. Let's go to the west.

Me: What?

Kenneth: Let's go to the west.

Me: What does that even mean???

Yes, that was our conversation. Lo and behold we DID end up going "to the west" for President's Day.

We got ready and packed up our car with Danny and camera gear and began heading "to the west." We stopped first near Saltare at some abandoned building and trolley cart with graffiti all over them. We ran out and took some much needed family pictures (we're really pathetic...we don't even have pictures of Danny up in our house yet!!). Here are some samplers:











The next stop on our journey "to the west" was supposed to be a stop at the Great Salt Lake for more pictures, but alas, it was Danny's naptime, so we didn't think we would get any good pictures out of him...next time.

We continued on our journey and stopped at the Salt Flats. The flats were covered with water, but that made for some beautiful pictures also.





Next we headed to Wendover, NV for a lunch stop at Subway and then continued "to the west" to Goshute Cave. Kenneth's dad, who used to work with the Young Men of the church used to take the boys to Goshute cave fairly regularly. They would usually arrive after dark and could never seem to find the cave entrance. We got directions from Kenneth's dad who told us that as long as we got there during daylight hours, we would have no problem finding the cave. This was not the case!

We drove along a dirt road back and forth several times until we finally spotted the cave. We ventured onto a secondary dirt road (which was covered in snow). Kenneth likes to think that our 2-wheel drive car is actually a 4-wheel drive truck...which as you can imagine, gets us in trouble sometimes. So, we naturally get stuck in the snow, and Kenneth has to put on our chains...well, actually just chain because one of them was broken. ;) We finally get the chain on and continue heading up the snow-covered dirt road. We finally get to the top of the road, get out of the car, get Danny strapped into his pack and head towards where we see the cave opening is. The only problem was that there was a stream between us and the cave. This shouldn't be a problem normally as we always cross streams, BUT this particular stream was at the bottom of a 20ft. deep ravine that we couldn't find a way around. SO, back to the car!

We then headed back to the main dirt road, and found another secondary snow-covered dirt road! We headed up this road until we eventually got stuck...again! We decided (or rather, Kenneth decided) that we would ditch the car and continue on foot! Kenneth assured me that it wasn't far to the cave entrance...WRONG! This is according to me...Kenneth still maintains that it was a short hike. (Michael and Kim...you understand what I'm saying!)

Our stuck car as seen from the cave (click picture to enlarge).


We finally arrive at the cave entrance.




We spent a couple hours exploring the cave and taking some pictures. Here are some of our favorites:










(Kenneth has the FREAKIEST eyes when he is in a cave...they scare me.)


Exiting the cave

The view upon exiting.

After we left the cave, we hiked down to our car, finally got it unstuck (right before dark) and headed home. Overall, it was a fun journey "to the west".

Valentine's Day

Kenneth and I celebrated Valentine's day on Saturday...with Danny! We slept in late, and then decided to go snowshoeing with Danny in the afternoon.


I couldn't resist falling into the powder.


We saw this chipmunk in the tree eating a pine cone. It kept running into its hole for another one.


We passed a popular climbing area, and Kenneth couldn't resist taking Danny up.


Our family photo


Danny enjoying the ride.


I saw this log on the way up and wanted to climb it SO badly! We decided to do it on our way back down.


Kenneth climbing the tree.

After we came home from snowshoeing we had Costa Vida for dinner (love that place) and then watched The Dark Knight (my gift to Kenny). The night was still early so we popped in Hitch (we were movie bums for the night). I had completely forgotten how hilarious that movie is! We were laughing all night long! During Hitch we also ate our chocolate covered strawberries Kenneth made earlier...the only thing I asked for for Valentine's Day. They were divine!