Our 3 Monkees: February 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Valentine Pictures

Had a mini photo shoot for Valentines day with some decorations around the house... the boys' parents loved them. =) Hope you all had a great Valentines day.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

While in Idaho, we took a road trip to Salt Lake City, it was actually our last day, we planned it this way and just flew home from Salt Lake City instead, anyway. Alyssa had a volleyball tournament on Friday and Saturday there, we were really looking forward to going and watching her. Once we got to Salt Lake, some things changed. Dan started feeling really guilty that the girls really didn't get to do anything exciting while we were in Idaho and after finding out it was kinda pricey to get into the tournament, we decided not to go, sorry Boo. We just knew there was no way they would sit there quietly and watch. We ended up renting a car of our own and explored Salt Lake City a little bit. I was totally surprised at how much there is and was to do there. They have so many family friendly activities it wasn't even funny. We have added Salt Lake City to our list of Cities to vacation too, it was AWESOME!! On Friday night, Aunt Lori volunteered to stay with Allison in the hotel while we took Ashley to the Clark Planetarium. It was located right downtown, there downtown area reminded us of Prescott's downtown area, just on steroids, talk about shopping and things to do, whoa baby! Any way the planetarium was pretty neat we enjoyed looking at all the exhibits and reading and learning all about our solar system, we even got to watch a laser light show, set to rock music, that was ok. =)

On Saturday, we got up and headed out to Thanksgiving Point. Which is a place with all kinds of fun and education things to do as a family. Ashley has recently really taken an interest into dinosaurs so our first stop was the Museum of Ancient Life. We got to see tons of dinosaur fossils, statues all while learning about them both by reading and hands on, it was pretty amazing. They had so many huge displays including a Tyrannosaurus Rex. They had games, a bone yard where kids can dig for fossils and we even watched a 3D movie about dinosaurs, Ashley was in heaven!

Well then we went to check out the Farm Country. They had animals you could feed, a demonstration on how milk is pasteurized, including watching them milk a cow. We thought Ashley was excited about the dinosaurs, until she learned that she got to feed, pet and ride animals. Of course her favorite part of her day was riding the white horse, which she did twice. =) After Farm Country we made a quick stop into the ice cream shop for a quick snack before rushing back to get our stuff to head to the airport. We all had a really fun day. Alyssa we are so sorry we missed your games. We are very proud of you and think you are awesome. We love and miss you, well all three of you a ton. Thank you guys again for a great vacation.

Watching movies and listening to music in the car

See us standing down there we barely came up to the dinosaurs knee.

Here is that same dinosaurs body...he was huge!

Building their own dinosaur

All done

Tyrannosaurus Rex

feeding the ducks and geese

and the horses

This is for you Mindy =)

Monday, February 21, 2011

Idaho

We finally go to get away to Idaho to visit Dan's Brother and family. If you remember they moved there last August. They are really enjoying it and we have been dying to go visit. This was like no vacation he have been on, in a good way, usually we are so busy and have activities planned everyday that we come home beat, this time we didn't do a whole lot except hang out! It was AWESOME, Dave, Lori and Alyssa, I can't tell you how much we enjoyed hanging out and playing games. Thank you so much for letting us come and visit your beautiful home and spend time with you guys. We love you and hope to make it out there again this summer.

This was the center of a HUGE round-about in town.

The view of the neighborhood from the upstairs room

I broke this huge icicle off and Jordan took this cool picture of it

On Saturday, Dan, Dave, Jordan & Alyssa got to go snowboarding at Targhee, I sent the point and shoot camera with Dan to get some pictures of them snowboarding or at the very least the scenery. Yeah when they got home he realized he never took any pictures and he was going to be in BIG trouble, so he quickly took this picture of himself. =}

Dan and Dave did get a second snowboarding trip in on Thursday and besides almost dying (they slid on a patch of ice went head on into on coming traffic, slid between to huge trucks, missed a pole as they were heading for the edge of a cliff, thank goodness the car hit another patch of ice that turned them side ways and kept them from going off the edge, everyone was ok, and the big trucks they missed helped pull them back on to the road, whew!) on the way home they had a great day on the mountain.

Ashley had the best time hanging out with her big sister Jordan and cousin Alyssa. They did her hair and put make up on her, took pictures of her and taught her all about Justin Bieber.

Thank you girls so much, Ashley had a great time with you guys.

Our pretty girl

Allison was in love with all the stairs, Dave and Lori had 2 sets that she could not get enough of. On February 6th, Dan's Birthday, Super Bowl Sunday, we went over to Chris & Garilu's (friends of Dave & Lori) house for a Superbowl party and once again Allison loved the steps, Alyssa got these cute pictures of her.

While at the Super Bowl Party, we took some time out to celebrate Dan's 36th Birthday and Gracie's 5th Birthday. Jordan made this cake special for her Dad.

On Thursday while the guys went snow boarding, Lori and the Girls and I got to get out and see the town and do some shopping. While we were out we went by the Idaho Falls, they were so neat! Frozen solid, yet you could still here the water running below the ice, it was cool.

Lori and I were also able to get out a couple other times, without the girls and spend some good quality sister in law time. On Monday, we went to Zumba together, which was a BLAST, and on Thursday we went to Bunco, I had never played and totally loved it. Thank you so much Lori, I really enjoyed hanging out with you. Can't wait to do it again.

Ok so these videos were takin' at the Superbowl party, they are hilarious and might I add no alcohol was involved. =)

Monday, February 7, 2011

Mr & Mrs Dale and Amy Roddy!

Amy, one of my best friends got married on February 1st. I know your probably thinking jeez how many best friends does she have??? Well, I have 3, Amy, Mindy and Sara, oh then there is my BESTEST friend Randy. =) Amy, Sara, Mindy met many years ago (1996 ish) while working for OfficeMax and over the years we have all gone in different directions with our lives some relationships stronger then others, but one thing is fore sure, we are still friends. Sara was the first of all of us to get married in 1999, then Mindy in 2004, I followed in 2006, too be honest I don't think any of us, even Amy, thought she would EVER be taking that step. =) When she called to announce her engagement, I was shocked but so happy and excited for her. Just a few weeks ago (like 2 weeks before the wedding) I got a call form Amy that they were just gonna do it, they were gonna get married, they were sick of saving and trying to plan this big elaborate wedding and decided they just wanted to get married. So the date was set Tuesday, February 1st. It was a very simple ceremony in their backyard. Amy wore jeans, so Amy, and was just such a beautiful bride. There was no way, I would miss this special occassion, Dan and I got the pleasure of being there, helping her get ready and taking pictures of this "historic" event. =) A toast to Amy and Dale...ready raise your glass...CONGRATULATIONS we wish you MANY more years of happiness. We love you both and are so happy and excited for you guys. CHEERS!!