ATV Day up American Fork Canyon

Today Amy and I took Caleb up American Fork Canyon with Ben's ATVs. It was so much fun. At first Caleb did NOT want his helmet on, but he got over it in a little while.

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Caleb's BIG Boy Bed

So we're planning on getting Caleb use to a BIG boy bed. We haven't done it so far because people always say "Just leave them in the crib until hey try to climb out" - well, Caleb will usually just sit in his crib and talk and laugh and have a really good time each morning when he wakes up. He doesn't even try to get out. Last night I moved a twin bed into his room and today Amy took him to buy a Lightning McQueen and Mater pillow. As he finished up his bed-time routine (crowning event is watching a Handy Many episode on the DVR, Caleb fell asleep on Mama.

Here's what he looked like when we left him.

What a cute little bugger!!!

Armstrong Family Reunion (for Grandpa Gilbert)

Two weeks ago we decided to go to Granbury Texas to Tom's Aunt Myrna and Uncle Pal's place for a family reunion. Most of the time I was trying to fight Caleb who only wanted to take the pool table balls and use them on the ping pong table or the foos ball table. Here are some pictures of him on the flight.

 

He enjoyed it because he was able to plug in my iPod, which has about 15 kids movies loaded, and watch while he kicked the poor guy seated in front of us.

I'm not entirely convinced I ever want to fly with a 2 year old again... even if they do get their own seat.

The trip back wasn't so easy, however. Our flight from Dallas to SLC (a direct flight) was cancelled because the American wouldn't let the plane from Charlotte land in Denver due to the rain. Every other airline was landing, however.

We ended up taking a later flight to Denver, staying in the Denver airport for 4 hours before we could check in for a 6:20am flight to SLC. The worst part was that airport has this dumb PA system that repeats the same message every 10 minutes the whole night...

I don't know how Amy and Caleb were able to sleep but they did.

Grandma played Sudoku.

Grandpa guarded the bags.

Jimmy & Mikensi

Chugiak Park

 

 

 

 

Denali

Here we are on our trip to Denali State Park. We arrived in Anchorage on Tuesday night around midnight (2:00am Utah Time). After getting a rental car, we made it to sleep around 4:30am MST. The next day we met up with Jimmy and Mikensi and caravaned the 4 and a half hours to Denali Park. The night before the bus tour, we stayed at the Salmon Bake. It was kind of like a nice scout camp. Tom and Laurel's "Cabin" had a bathroom and an air conditioner in the window. The other 2 "units" were just like tens with plywood walls and carpet floors with two double beds in each one.

Here I am at a view point along the road that goes into the park. It's one road in and one road out. The buses take you a ways into the park so you can see Mount McKinley (which was covered in cloud the day we went there) and then they turn around and head back.

We saw several Grizzly Bears... (double-click to enlarge the image)


this is a picture of 3 wolves that took down a caribou and were snacking in front of us... well along way away from us. They didn't even share - how rude! Of course, Amy just said, "How gross!!" (double-click to enlarge the image)



These are our luxury buses. I think they came from a local school district and were recycled or something. And I wonder why my back hurts now :)

Caleb's B-day Party

Okay, so I'm only a month late putting these up, but I think they're still pretty good. Amy and Amber Moss did a "Astronaut" theme party for Caleb. We gave the kids all little squirt guns; they played in the blow up pool and they all got a balloon tied to their wrist.

Miss America - Caleb version

We finally bought some new couhes and it took like 10 weeks to arrive because the guy's family runs the factor in China. We went up to Salt Lake Saturday morning to pick them up and my neighbors helped me bring them down stairs - so we finally have an area in the basement where we can hang out and guests can come over. A funny story happened while we were in Salt Lake. The guy we bought the couche from (5'2" and maybe 120lbs) said that his family in China thinks every American weighs 300-400lbs. So they paid this 300lb Chinese guy over there to go "jump" on the couches to make sure they were made strong enough. Well my neighbor Mike (5'9" - 155lbs) was sitting on the couch with me and since the cushions were still pretty firm we were both boncing on them when we hear a "crack" - needless to say we stopped and nothing seems to be broken.

If any of you read this, don't tell Amy - she doesn't know yet.

So that afternoon before his nap Caleb finds Amy's swimming suite and decides to do his own Miss American swim suite display on the oversized Ottoman the living room.

Enjoy!!!





Here's the final product.