no no no this isn't happening!

Yes yes it did. my baby turned 4 :( what a sad day. but it wasn't it was really fun. we really didn't do a heck of alot on his real day. through out the week we went swimming at sand hallow aquatic center (aka SHAC) we went to the pet store, and didn't get anything (yay for me for not giving in to myself..haha) we had a play date that was really fun. so ever since we've been at momma lee's we've done alot. so for his actually birthDAY we went and he got to pick out a toy..and had a picnic at the park. and i made him a killer cake. we all loved it. it was really fun. we had gyro's for dinner :) mmmm..yes they were soooo good. and we had presents..basicaly a bunch of clothes that were much needed! also next wed i am throwing malaki a suprise party at our house in montana. so hopefully i can get some where with internet to post pictures of that. .so happy birthday to my baby boy I LOVE YOU!

post halloween night..

This is what happens when mom says enough candy..what a sad day!

mr. cowboy guy

Malaki had the option of being the pirate he was last year (which i love) or to be a 'cowboy guy' he kept calling himself. so here he is himself COWBOY GUY!

Angels Landing hike in Zion

Ok seriously! i hate loading pictures on here it never works out right for me!! arrr... look closely at this next picture along the spine you can see the chain where you walk. insane!!

The view!!!

march 08 i did the angels landing hike in zion, and I think ever since I did it, I've wanted to take mom. so FINALLY!!!! we did it last week it was soooo much fun. She loved it as well. Funny thing is, i thought she was really enjoying herself. the hike is difficult but we just chatted away so it went by very quickly thinking she is doing good. As many of you know the hike is crazy. you walk along the spine at the very top that totally varries in width. The have chains and rails to hold on too. it is pretty scary if you are afraid of hights. I think that kinda stuff is great!! i knew she was very nervous to do it, but i thought she'd do fine, its not that bad. To our suprise there were a ton of people hiking too. (not a ton, but quite a few) we thought it would be close to the off season and not that many people. anyways there is a spot that is kind of like a decision spot. if you want to keep going. so there are so many people that do this hard strenuous hike and dont even finish the last leg that is thee "angels landing" and truely it is amazing! So we finished and were on our way down and mom said "i think thats the most scared i've ever been in my life" haha. sorry i shouldn't laugh but she kept her cool so good. and i dont know if you all know but there has been many deaths on this paticular trail. the most recent one this last august. i dont know why but i kept saying jump. and mom was freaking out. 'dont you dare say that j word again' haha i would just use it in every sentence. its probably not funny to joke, but i'm kinda sick and twisted like that..haha..anywho here are some pictures..enjoy!

clothes exchange..or clothes for the taking

dear sisters. so i have gone through malaki's clothes. so when we all go for grandma's wedding who ever can have them. i thought if you guys are needing to get rid of or just felling that you need to share clothes, you should bring them if you can. i know some are flying and i know you probably dont have room but just in case. or if you want to leave some room for clothes to bring home...love you all!!! hope everything is great and we'll see you soon!!!! brooke hold onto that baby so you can make it!!! :)

our new baby...

So ever since we have visited bekah, i just really have wanted a cat. I know kinda weird. Thats what we both think. That when we were younger we hated cats. but...i found a little place in my heart for them. So i have been searching for the best one. and low and behold craigslist came threw for me..haha.
We love "yagi" he is so fluffy and cute. kinda scared for when he starts shedding..but maybe then we will just shave him. :) just kidding!

Have you enjoyed nature lately?

We LOVE living where we live! it is the best place on earth! (minus..the winter. but we'll learn to cope) we have been exploring west yellowstone and all it has to offer. we love to go hiking, and taking drives to see what we can see. and to thank our heavenly father everyday for this beauty! It truely is AMAZING!!!

From the back yard...almost.

So after our long vacation we decided before this town gets filled with to many people we would go enjoy our own park. So here's a couple photos i thought you might like.
So here we stumbled upon a Grizzzzz..how awesome is he. he had some kinda white powder on his face that we couldn't figure out what it was. but if you look closely the shadow above his head is me standing out of our sun roof. that's how close he was to us.. he was way cool and his paws and claws were ginormous!!!!

Awwww..yiiiiiii bald eagle..if you can click on this to make it larger its an awesome picture!

For all my sisters that are making fun of me right now about the wild animal photos..this is for your children!!!!! haha...The first day we went into the park we went in to see all the baby bison. And we were pretty bumbed out because we hadn't seen any ..well then we came upon this baby that was probably 15 min. from being born it was the coolest thing ever. this wasn't the mom and baby, i thought i'd put this one on. so oliver and p. weren't asking what the afterbirth was..haha :)

This is out at big springs. We come here to feed the ducks usually, but that day there was only one and he wasn't very hungry. but we found somebody who was stttarrrving!!! a little muskrat..we loved him! he is really cute when he is wet, and malaki was really making me nervous that close to him, but he loved it. We also fed all the HUGE rainbow trout that are in these springs there way cool they just sit right under the bridge and wait for you to feed them bread! they love it!!!

I really hope I'm not boring anyone with all our animals malaki loves it. on days when we don't have anything to do we just drive around and look for animals!!! this is a baby moose robb and malaki found when i was working! he is she is so cute and tall!!
Anybody miss Montana and want to come visit!?!?! that's what this really was about that everyone would get home sick and come see us!!!! :)

Finally pictures from the trip..

Alright. So Robb, Malaki and I went on a trip in our off season! it was amazing..I wish it would have lasted longer and I wish our car didn't break down. But whats a vacation without things going wrong right? so what happened was this...

Robb and I went to viva Las Vegas for 2 days..hung out did a lot of walking seeing the sites..then we went up to momma lee's grabbed Malaki and started our trippp..first stop Zion National Park.The day we left it was poring rain in St. George and our whole trip we planned to camp. so the weather kinda worried me but it turned out pretty good.

Next stop...

We left Zions and the weather was so good. it wasn't to hot and not to cold. At the gate of Bryce it was ok started to get a little chilly. And we flew threw Bryce. We got there I think about 4. Anywhoo. When we got out for our first scenic look. It was sooooooooooooo FREEZING...absolutely miserable!!!!

......it was so windy and cold we had to get a hotel room that night so that kinda sucked but the trip went on...

I am not sure why but Robb and I both have this obsession, if you will, about trees. We just love them!

Capitol Reef National Park

Fruita School House. Capitol Reef.This is where we camped for a couple days. right by Goblin Valley State Park, UT.

I think this was Malaki's favorite. He loved hiking around and looking at all the weird rocks..So where we stayed in Goblin Valley was right next to old mining camps..it was really neat to see all there old houses and still in the river beds that are all dried up were old food cans. It was pretty cool.

Onnnnn the road again.........

Yet again another tree...i love this picture..

This was the other park Malaki LOVED..he had so much fun looking for caves and climbing up the rocks.

So the nice thing about this trip was that we didn't plan ANYTHING! We just kinda looked at the map and drove, planned things as we went along. Petrified Forest wasn't on our list of things to do. But we were here most of the day. there were alot of Indian homesteads here and petroglyphs that were pretty cool...and of course petrified wood!! haha....

Yes and we did go see the "big Ditch" it wasn't a very good day for it. The weather was nice but there was a fire somewhere and it made the grand canyon pretty hazy..but other than that it was awesome.

This is at the top of the tower over looking the grand canyon.

We got some really good family photos..this one is my favorite!

How sweet is my dog!!! she had sooo much fun too. She loved in and out of the car. walking around. At first I was nervous to take her. thinking that she would have to stay in the car a lot. But a lot of the parks let pets on trails so she had fun!!!

From the grand canyon we drove straight to Yuma, Az. It was a long drive we got there about midnight so Malaki slept most of the time. And then the next morning we drove to the sunshine..we thought. Here we are in Saint Deeeago! The weather was pretty chilly right along the ocean but we had fun anyways. Malaki was freaking out about the waves getting him so he stayed on the dry sand most of the time. Too bad it wasn't warm enough to throw him in. or else I would have.

Well hmmm... ya this is a good picture minus the people in the back ground looking at us..haha.
So I am gonna end with this adorable cute picture! What happened was we were in San Diego for maybe 2 hours when we noticed this awful sound coming from my engine of course. So we decided that it was pretty terrible we would go have it looked at. Robb thought it was a wheel barring? and I know those are alot of money..so I was pretty bumbed about that. Well turns out that wasn't it. So we took it to a transmission place. And of course it is my "transfer case" this guy told us that it would be $2,200 just for the new part..haha way to go Oldsmobile lets make a car that is crazy hard to fix, and then lets make all the parts wicked expensive..ya that's a great idea! So we drove back to the hotel made some phone calls and found a junk yard that would fix it for 600..perfect "and you can have it done today?!?!?".."yeah if you get it here right now".. so we hurried and drove downtown. So we give the car to these guys they said they'll have it done by 5. They told us to just ride the trolley downtown and hang out and they'll call us when it's done..so 5 o'clock rolls around and of course the car isn't done. (ok sorry i forgot to tell you about this place we took it, complete GHETTO!!!! so so so scary!) so one of the girls gave us a ride back to our hotel they told us it would be done tomorrow! so we stuck around the hotel the next day thinking our car would be done about 1....waiting...waiting...waiting...hahahaha..nothing!!! we were supposed to go to sea world and the zoo blah blah blah. well long story short we didn't get to do anything fun in San Diego cus we were waiting on our car the whole time. and our hotel was located like in residential business part of town so there was nothing to do and we had to walk like 8 block to get a bus.. :) so anyways $1500 and 3 days later we got the car finally. we were so mad and frustrated. I told Robb that as soon as we get the car we are driving home!! straight home!! we were supposed to do the red wood forest, Yosemite, the coast up to Oregon well that didn't happen were saving that for next time..but we had a blast and that's all that counts!