Visitor from Brasil

Danielle de Souza (Queroz) came to SLC for General Conference, so I took the day off of work to show her around some of the tourist-ish places that not so near down town (because she doesn't have car). She is from Boa Vista and was baptized with her family shortly before I was transferred there. She was a HUGE help to the missionaries because she'd take time out of lawschool to drive us all over the city getting legal documents for the families we were trying to help become legally married so they could be baptized. She also let me know that Luis and Valdeci had been through the temple and that their daughter Mirla was serving a mission.

First, we went to the "This is the Place State Park"

Most of the volunteer students were back in school so we couldn't go into any of the buildings. We started out just looking at the hand carts, which Caleb loved.


He acted scared of the pigs even though he wanted to be right next to them.

But he sure did love the train ride.

It's a good thing we went on the first ride because when we were done about 200 kindergarten kids all got on screaming and shouting.

From Salt Lake we went over Suncrest and up AF Canyon.

My poor wife gets car sick and those windy roads made her ready to toss her granola bars so we didn't even go all the way through. Instead we came back home, put Caleb to bed, ate some Rumbi Island Grill Hawaiian food and then went down to BYU and the MTC for a look around. By the time we got back Caleb handn't even woken up from his nap yet. Good thing Grandpa Gilbert was there keeping an eye on him, though.

Jawbone - Bluetooth ear piece

Okay, so I heard this new Jawbone ear piece worked really well so I bought one. I could hear much better, but Amy always complained that it was hard for her to hear me. Well one day, my friend Blair Hasler showed me this video and taught me how to actually activate the ear piece. Now it's amazing... check it out!


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Food Storage

We are trying to do better at following the prophets councel of getting out of debt and getting our 1-yr supply of food storage. We already had quite a bit of regular food storage that Amy and I have packaged from the Spanish Fork Cannery and from just regular sales from the store. With the sale of our Springville home complete, we decided to purchase a 1-yr supply for 2 people of complete meals, snacks, desserts from a freeze dried supplier. Check it out.

NuSkin Lagoon Party

Last night we went to Lagoon, for the annual NuSki

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