Beach Trip

It was a beautiful weekend at the beach. Dallin and Todd spent the whole day at NAACs (native American arts and ceremonies). It's a scouting thing. Mason put together a little mini ocean. It was really cool. He had sea monkeys and sand fleas in there.

Hunter and his cousin Nicklas spent most of the time wandering the beach together.
Gavin and Alaina had a fun time playing in the water. Yes it is January at the coast and Alaina is in a swimsuit. She spent two hours in that suit.
Gideon loved it. He could've stayed out all day if it hadn't finally got cold.

Something New

I thought I would try something different and highlight each member of the family and focus on them for one blog entry. I struggle trying to give an update of what everyone is doing and think I will have more fun this way and hopefully it will help me blog more often.

So today it's on Gideon. He is such a delight. Today while I was talking to my sister at the door he walked out and climbed down the steps. Then when he realized no one was stopping him he took off as quickly as his little legs would carry him, which was half way into the sopping grass. I thought it was so funny I didn't have the heart to stop him. He crawled around for about 5 minutes in the sopping cold northwest outdoors when I thought it would be best to bring him in and clean him up.

One of his favorite things to play with is the dishwasher, today he made the bold move to climb up on the dishwasher just in case I might close his favorite toy up.
I don't understand what he is really doing here but he puts his face down and gets it all wet. I catch him doing it all the time.
This is his blanket he must have it when he sleeps and he gives a cute little squeal when he sees it.

Halloween

Just a few misc. Halloween pictures. I haven't downloaded the rest of them.

Gideon just having a fun time with his dad.
The kids pumpkins. They all turned out great. I love all the unique designs each year.

Football

Hunter just finished his first season of football and loved it. It took me a bit by surprise because he never really showed an interest before. He did great!!

Gideon

So it has been forever since I posted last but hopefully I will do a little better over the next few months. Here are some picts of Gideon. We think the way he drinks from his cup is funny. He grips it by the lid rather then holding it with two hands. As soon as he's done he throws it.

Going for a ride on the vacuum cleaner. He loves the vacuum and always chases it around when I'm vacuuming.

Difference in size

Ok, so I have pictures on the camera that I need to download onto the computer but just haven't taken the time to do it yet so found this picture and thought it would be a fun one. These are two eggs that were collected the same day.

Killen Creek

Our 2010 Family camp up in the Mt. Adams wilderness. We had a blast. It was dry and very dusty but that didn't seem to bother anyone. We brought the motorcycles and they were in use by one of the boys all day.

We also managed to get in a hike. Wasn't the most popular activity we did. Looks like we will need to do a bit more hiking. We haven't hiked as much as we used to. You can see the dust we kicked up behind us.
We got this picture right after swimming in horseshoe lake.
We had a lot of fun with all the frogs that were up there. These were a couple of the smaller ones we found.
This is one of the bigger ones. We found a lot in between these two sizes as well. Gideon thought they were pretty neat until one, that we were holding in front of him so he could look at it, jumped on his face.
We had a lot of fun and look forward to spending time camping again.