"Sit tall in the saddle, Hold your head up high
Keep your eyes fixed where the trail meets the sky
And live like you ain't afraid to die
And don't be scared, just enjoy your ride"
-Chris Ledoux

Friday, September 26, 2008

Feeling a little homesick but taking advantage of being in the city...

We have been here for 24 days now (but who's counting?) Although we love visiting Grandma's house, we start to miss home (daddy, horses and the quiet country life)! We keep our positive attitudes by keeping busy and taking advantage of the "city opportunities" we happily live without...


Kort put this new puzzle together all by himself and has never been so proud! He told me 100 times how smart he was and that I probably wasn't even smart enough to do it when I was 4yrs old because I was a "girl"! Whatever! I guess I can quit worrying about my kids having a high self-esteem now that I realize they're like their daddy and are just born with them!
We have had a lot of fun playing in the St. George city water feature! Weird if you ask me, but what else do you do when it's 100 degrees in September?


Grandpa took us hiking on the red rocks and the boys had fun hunting for Indians!

We actually found an Indian house but they weren't home...
Good thing, because Kortlen & Tristen left their bow & arrows in Wyoming! WHEW!



Okay, so I understand more about this whole "you have to sacrifice as a parent thing" because spending an afternoon at the new STAR WARS clone trooper movie is not exactly my idea of a good time, but look how excited my little jedi's were! They even insisted on wearing their Darth Vader t-shirts! I'm not sure how many times Kort told me to "be quiet mom" during the movie if I asked him a question. (sorry, I just don't understand the whole Star Wars thing)



Still in Sunny St. George...

Our daddy is STILL hunting so we are STILL playing at Grandma Lori's!
It's pretty hot here so we have spent a lot of afternoons in the water!

We have played in the red dirt...

Check out our "secret" hut that doubles for a space ship!


Grandma doesn't have real horses to ride so we tied up her "my little ponies", put on our cowboy hats from the dollar store and taught them little buck'n horses a lesson!
(daddy will be so proud to see this!)






Thursday, September 11, 2008

Fall St. George Vacation!

Our September St. George vacation has been lots of fun so far!
We have eaten at yummy places ...

And played with really fun cousins at water parks...

I know we could really use a tan but we come from Wyoming, what do you expect?

Grandma Lori found us these cool helmets and swords to fight each other with (great idea grandma!) but Tristen was mostly excited with his very own pair of flip-flops!

We have to admit that the highlight of our vacation so far is when we came around the corner at Target to find that the Halloween costumes were FINALLY on display (we've been waiting so patiently)! Good thing we have the nicest mom in the whole world... She bought them for us and even lets us wear them! We think she's almost as cool as Star Wars but definitely not as cool as dad.