What color of crayon are you?

You Are a Blue Crayon

Your world is colored in calm, understated, deep colors. You are a loyal person, and the truest friend anyone could hope to find. On the inside, you tend to be emotional and even a bit moody. However, you know that people depend on you. So you put on a strong front. Your color wheel opposite is orange. Orange people may be opinionated, but you feel they lack the depth to truly understand what they're saying.

What Color Crayon Are You?



Since we are so into coloring and crayons right now, I thought this looked interesting... Not sure how accurate it is (me, moody?emotional? never...), but it is interesting nonetheless!

Is costco really that great?

Last tuesday, Tyse got to go to a birthday party for a friend from preschool. His party was a Mickey Mouse party and it was as "Mickey-D's". Happy Meals all round! It was a HUGE hit and a couple days later, tyse was raving about it once again. That was quickly followed up by a "Where am I going to have my birthday party?" and then it was quickly followed by "Costco. yup. I want my party at Costco." Hmmm....

OK, so we were trying to get some pictures to show, but I have been foiled by my ineptitude in computing. So...

IT'S ANOTHER BOY!

As expected, junior #3 is a boy. Did I have any hope for the other? I have never seen such relief on Kent's face... no new bedding, no new decor, no new (or very limited) clothes, and no girl-y hormones to face. We should have gotten a girl dog.
Everything looked great with him- he seems to be just as independent as the other 2 we have- I have to go back for another ultrasound next month because he wouldn't show us his face. But he had no qualms in showing us his gender over... and over.... and over.
Just for reference, he weighs about 11 oz- just 1 oz. less than a can of soda pop- and is similar in length, but skinnier than the can.
What a beautiful blob!

Grandma's 90th Birthday!

After Telluride, we went to Cedar City for Kent's grandma's 90th birthday. It was so great to see so many family members we hardly ever get to see and spend time with siblings and cousins. here are a few highlights...

I think that Andrea was going for the favorite aunt when she let Emitt shove his head in her cake and eat the entire piece that way... the cake was a very big hit!

Tyse was able to meet so many cousins that he has never met before. He had a GREAT time running uncontrolled through the halls of a church with all these kids! What a great event, if only for this purpose!

Tyse has started really talking with his hands. When he is really excited about something, this is what he does... and shakes his hands and everything. I think this was when he was telling us there were 5 cakes...

Spending some quality time with siblings is a bonus at any reunion- we always get picked on as the youngest!

Telluride

A few weeks ago, some friends let us tag along for a fun vacation to Telluride, CO. It was so beautiful! We could really get used to this upper class thing- kent's favorite thing about the entire trip was to call down and have his "car prepared." We were definitely the only Dodge Durango in the area!

The first day we were there, we rode the gondola into Telluride (we stayed in Mountain Village). Tyse claims this to be the best part of the entire trip- and it was great for the adults too! It was the peak of the fall colors and the mountains were just covered in yellow. WOW! We went down to this cool little park they had and let the kids run around like crazy and actually got a decent family picture for us to post. Miracle of all miracles.

The second day we went up to an old ghost mining town and wandered around for the day. It was so beautiful- it had snowed the night before just lightly enough to cover it and let Emitt touch snow for the first time... he LOVED it! We were able to participate in the first snowball fight of the season and wander around the old ruins and have a picnic. It was such a great day!

Man, these pics are all over!
The third day, we tried out our 4x4 skills and scaled the side of the mountain housing Bridal Veil Falls, the largest waterfall in Colorado. Kent definitely LOVED climbing the road, and the view was beautiful.

After this day, we packed up and headed to Cedar City via a visit to the 4 corners region. The drive over Lizard Head Pass was AMAZING! At this point I am going to show off some of Kent's extraordinary portrait abilities...

We hit the biggest rain storm just as we pulled into the parking lot at 4 corners. I think all the native american vendors there LOVE the rain because people actually had to take extra time to look through the shops until the rain stopped. Kent even got to taste his first Navajo Taco made by a real Navajo! I was going to post a pic, but the thing isn't uploading and Tyse is throwing a MAJOR fit and about to break a mirror, so I am off...

After a terribly long day in the car, we were so happy to finally pull in to the Ihler's and get a decent night's sleep! What a great trip!