Alanna's feildtrip

We went with Alanna's class on thier feildtrip today. We sure enjoyed spending time with her and her class. Isaac especailly liked all the girls in her class cause they never put him down! we thought you'd enjoy these pictures of Alanna and Brandon hanging out.

Backyard fun

I just got done dragging the backyard and decided to let Isaac get on the 4 wheeler. The last time he got on it he flipped out when I started it up. This time, he was fearless. Didn't even let a peep out. This is a shot of our backyard. It's not quite big enough to ride the 4 wheeler a lot but there's enough room to play around a little. The 4 wheelers are a lot more fun when I'm out in the desert.

Now This Is A Corvette

Well, Dad, I found a new style Corvette for you. This actually is a smartcar with a Corvette body kit. If you do a google search for smart car body kits, there are images of these minature cars dressed as corvettes, lamborguinis, porsches, and many other sports cars. Would you consider driving one of these to one of your GOCC meetings Dad?

The Desert In Bloom

Isaac and I went for a walk around the neighboorhood tonight and took some pictures of the new sprouts on the cacti in the yards around ours. Some of them the spines are soo fine that they almost look soft... but looks can definately be decieving. The smaller and finer they are the more loose they are wnd will break off and stick in you better. They are really hard to get out too!

We then ventured into our own backyard and looked at the fruit trees we have planted there. There was a lot of fruit to see and some blosoms of the fruit to come.

We found artichokes...

and pomegranets....

and figs...

and guava...

and lemons>

Desert Panorama

A while ago I rode the 4 wheelers into the desert in the morning. I had taken my camera with me and was looking to shoot a little. I came to this spot and thought it would make a good photograph. I have only now gotten around to stitching it together. The image below is actually made up of 21 seperate images. I still have a lot of work left to do on it but thought I would see what you all thought of it soo far.

Fun In The Barn, Isaac's first Pony ride!

We met our neighboors that live across the street. They have several dogs, cats, and even 4 horses. Isaac loved the horses. He was smiling, kicking, and just totally excited whenever he was near them. He would pet them and bull on their hair. The horses didn't seem to mind either. Our neighboor suggested he sit up on one of them. When we sat him up on the horse he was just extatic! Looks like he may follow his aunt Kim's obsession.

Isaac's Fun-filled Day

Isaac has reciently learned to crawl (scoot really). He loves to make his way across the whole room to get to his toys or anything else he wants to play with.

I like to eat dirt!

Hi all of my loving family members! I miss you guys and wanted you to see my messy masterpeice It's all over my face! Just so that all of you know I'm very excited that in about eight months I'll be a big brother. My family is hoping for twin little girls (at least Mom and I are. Dad's not so sure that's what he wants!!) I love you all! -Little Ike

Isaac's 7 month pics

We took Isaac's seven month pictures a couple weeks ago. We're just now getting the loaded though. We thought that you might like to see them. Let us know which ones are your favorite and we can send you some. Hope you're all doing well! Isaac sure misses all of you and so do we!

Goimg topless

Today I decided that the weather was finally nice enough for me to remove the top of the 4Runner. I took out the screws that held the molding on in the inside and then had to unbolt the fiberglass top from the truck body. Then I drove the truck into the back yard where I had set up a couple of saw horses and boards. I asked my neighbor to help me lift off the top and put it on the saw horses. When Isaac woke up from his nap the whole family went for a topless ride. We even put it in 4x4 and took it off road for a little fun.

The only drawback to having the top off the truck is that i can't keep stuff in the back if I drive it to school. I don't trust all the kids at the school not to take stuff out of the truck if there is no top on it.

One of our new friends in the ward who only lives about 5 minutes away is into off-roading a lot. I've gone over to help him work on his truck before and Heather enjoys talking with his wife. They have a toddler and another little one only a couple months older then Isaac. He also knows how to weld and I'm going to ask him if he can teach me so I can build a brush guard, rock sliders, roll cage, and possibly a roof rack. I don't know when I will be able to build these things but that's what I'd like to do. This will be a long term project with the other things I would like to do to the truck.

Sleepy little chub!!

Isaac loves to sleep in interesting positions. This is one of his more normal ones. I love when babies sleep with thier little bumbs sticking up in the air! Hope you like it too!

Package from Grandma

After getting home frome the park on Saturday we stopped and checked the mail. Grandma had said she was sending a package to Isaac a few days back and it had arrived. He was too tired and grumpy (from playing all day in the sun at the park) and had to go to bed with out opening his package. Anyway, he informed us this morning that he wanted to wear the new clothes he had just gotten from Grandma. He got two outfits. One is a green onezie with green cammo shorts and the other is white with a wale and blue shorts. Thank you Grandma. We love you!