What have we been up to?

You ask.  Good question.  We have been up to a lot, especially boxes.  You could say we up to our eyeballs in boxes.  We have done a little exploring, and celebrated Alexis' birthday.  Along with other wonderful activites.  I figure since I haven't posted forever I would break up our happenings into bits and pieces over the next few days.  Then you don't have to either find the time to read the possible novel that will follow or just ignore all the posts completely because you don't have time.  lol

Anyway, this is the beginning of when I last posted, I think. . .

The last weekend in January we went to Blackfoot for the boys to go ice fishing with Grandpa.  Andrew loves ice fishing and basically anything that involves snow and getting cold.

Pretty good fisherman with some help from Grandpa.

Following that, the first week of February, Brandon, Spencer and I traveled to Albuquerque to look for a house.  The drive took 14 hours, which, considering we had a 6 mo old with us and took an unintended 45 minute detour (more about that later) I think is pretty good.  Spencer was fantastic, he was so well behaved we had nothing to complain about. 

As for the unintended detour, Brandon missed the exit for Moab and I wasn't paying enough attention to let him know it was coming up, so by the time I said where was the exit and we looked at the mile markers, we were 10 miles past the exit.  So we took the long way around Arches which was one of the best unintended detours we could have taken.  We ended up on a literal "Scenic Route" not just the kind you don't intend to take.  The road followed the Colorado River as it headed to Moab.  We eventually had to stop and take pictures.  This is what we saw. . .

and this

and this

Pretty amazing don't you think.  Once we reached Moab we stopped just outside to feed Spencer and walk around a bit.  Brandon took off to take photos there and took these:

I title this: The calf's head

LOVE THIS TREE!!!

Basically, if you have to drive 14 hours, this isn't bad country to have to drive through.

Ice Fishing

This last weekend we went to Blackfoot. On Saturday, Andrew and Brandon went ice fishing at Chesterfield Reservoir in Idaho with my dad, my brother-in-law, and my 9-year old niece. Personally, I get cold just thinking about ice fishing, but they had a riot. Andrew's favorite part was looking down the holes.

Notice the pole. I think he was hoping to see the fish come up.

They had a good fishing day and caught several good size fish. Her Andrew and Grandpa are reeling one in.

Andrew needed a little help and we decided we will have to "practice" some more this summer.

Isn't this a great shot of the fish .

The mighty fishermen/women

A fish in the snow

For some more great photos from the trip you can check out this web album.

One note: Brandon learned the hard way, you can get really sunburned while ice fishing.