Trip: Final Days

Hurricane, Utah

This is the last day in Utah. We had planned on visiting the Dorius and Gibb families who live outside of St. George and even stay over night. However, the trip out to Utah was a bit harder than expected, so we decided to leave and go part way to Colorado instead. Before leaving ,we had a fun BBQ and then ate cake to celebrate Robby's b-day the next day. It is fun seeing these kids together. Robby, Josh (to left of Robby hidden), and Allison (to the right of Robby) grew up in Oregon together when we were up in school. It felt like old times and I miss them already!

Glenwood Springs, CO

Here are the kids outside of the hot springs pool in Glenwood Springs. It didn't occur to us to actually take any pictures while swimming. The slide in the background was the hit of the day. Kelbre even went on it with her daddy. She decided once was enough though. The boys managed to go many times! Hard to believe I grew up attending this pool and even took swimming lessons here! It is fun being back although I don't remember it being so expensive (although I was a kid so who knows?).

After a long day of swimming, here we are at Chili's for Robby's birthday dinner. His only request was that he wanted ribs, steak and he wanted the restaurant to sing to him. That actually limited our choices to one. We had a great meal and everyone had a lot of fun!


SO.. we were supposed to stay in Glenwood that night, but we were done traveling! So Robb and I decided to drive straight through and get to Fort Collins late. It was a great trip but we were ready to be home!

Foot Injury

I know this picture doesn't do it justice, but Robby sustained a nasty food injury a couple days before we left for our trip. He was playing with the slip-n-slide and ran over to the water spiket to turn down the water. Well, he slipped and caught the top of his foot underneath the window well covering, cutting it open. You could actually see down his foot. He ended up with 6 stitches. I wish I could have gotten a better picture when it happened, but you don't think about grabbing the camera when your child is screaming!

The funniest part is that I am supposedly at fault. Robby explained that if I hadn't made them do school through Christmas and Spring Breaks, then he wouldn't have finished the year early and be outside playing. He would have been instead and safe.

Arrow of Light

Robby finished cub scouts and earned his Arrow of Light. Congrats Robby!

More of Aaron's Art

Aaron has been working on shading and so they completed these noses.

You are looking at a rabbit nose, gorilla nose and cheetah nose.

Garbage Service

The kids have a tradition of going around the neighborhood to pick up garbage. They started doing it as part of their boy scout program and it has just continued. Kelbre decided to join in this time. We usually try to see who finds the coolest thing. Last time Robby found an entire bag of garbage someone had thrown into the ditch. This time Aaron wins the award; he found a broom.

Clay Creations

The boy's had a field trip to this pottery studio. It happened to be during the Spring Break week for his cousins, so we invited them to come along (along with grandpa and grandma too). The older boys got to form their creations with clay, then come back and paint them after they had been fired.

Kelbre and Brady chose an already made pottery to paint. Brady picked a truck and Kelbre picked a unicorn. You can see in this picture that Brady is painting his truck green. Well, after he painted the entire thing green, he went back and painted the entire thing black!

So here are the finished products...............

Kelbre's Unicorn, pink of course (the other side is white with sparkly pink dots)

Robby's candy dish






Aaron's pot

Kelbre's wisdom and such

Kelbre is always making us laugh and smile. Here are some things that have been going on lately.....

.....She is learning to spell. She loves to practice writing everyone's names. She has now decided to call her dad R0bb since that is his name. Somehow I am still Mom.

.....I was in the kitchen peeling potatoes when she came up behind me and declared "I am so glad you are doing that. I hate the crusts!"

.....While in the car on errands, I took a left turn and pulled out fast to avoiding getting hit. She starts yelling "Despacio mama, Despacio!" When Aaron said "What does that mean? Wait?" She quickly told him "No, wait is 'espera,' silly, 'despacio' means to slow down!" She loves to speak to them in Spanish, especially when playing I SPY and they have no clue what she is saying.

.....I received an email the other day that the circus is coming to town in May. I was talking about it with the boys and how exciting it would be to get tickets. Well, a little while later Kelbre came down dressed with shoes and socks and said "I am all ready for the circus, let's go!" The poor girl has no concept of time yet.