Star Trek

Is anyone else exccited about the upcoming Star Trek prequel? Maybe its a bit nerdy. I just got a telescope and am improving in the astronomy department. Next anyone sees Zoey or Livvy you should ask them to tell you what the holes in the moon are called (craters).

Apparently, the Star Trek prequel has someone going back in time which affects the future. But wouldn't it be that when the time traveler stepped into the time machine to go back in time that he would have already known what he did because it had already happened?

Again, maybe its a bit nerdy but I like it.

JGW

Life in the Desert

I love living in the Las Vegas. Yes it is known to the world as, "sin city" but out where we live, this doesn't affect us. We get to take advantage of great restaurants and entertainment if we want to, but most of the time we are very oblivious to what goes down on the strip.
Mainly, I love the desert. I love the bright sun and blue sky that are abundant most of the year. I love being surrounded on all sides by desert. I love being able to drive 15 minutes from our house and be completley alone, no cars, or houses, or streetlights and discover what is there when the roads end....the red dirt and rocks and cactus. I love the paradox of the desert. How at first glance it appears lifeless but there is actually so much life that exists. I love beautiful, obvious scenery; I'd take a sunset on the North Shore of Hawaii any day of the week, but there is something undescribable about having to explore and search and discover the beauty in the desert. It somehow ends up meaning more. Edward Abbey, writes some pretty crazy stuff, but I love his book, Desert Solitaire. He loved the desert too. I agree with him that too many people drive through the desert and think there is nothing there. But if you got out of the car, and to quote him, "walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll see something"
This year we decided to plant a garden. It takes a little extra loving to grow vegetables in this soil but it's starting to pay off. Here are some of our results.

ZucchiniGreen Peppers
And I can't wait for these little guys to turn red. Yum!!

Rite of Passage

The hot weather has arrived in Las Vegas. So yesterday I bought our first box of OtterPops for the year. For me this is truly a rite of passage into summer.

Utah

I took the kids up to Utah for Spring Break. It was good for me to go home. I loved seeing family and friends I seldom see and remembering happy moments with them. I loved being in the shadow of Timp. I sware besides not seeing everybody more often, that is what I miss most about living there. I love the rise of the mountain that literally sits in the backyard.

Other than rainy weather, Kellen sleeping worse than usual, and a flat tire outside of Cedar City (my worst nightmare) the trip was so fun. Here are a few highlights. (I'm sad I didn't get many pictures of everybody. )

March

I can't believe March is over already. Here is a few of the happenings during the month.

Olivia turned 4. We had a Wizard party with her friends
Zoey turned 6. She and Liv got to go to Build a Bear Workshop and make a bear.

We are loving the Las Vegas Spring and try and go hiking as much as possible.

Kellen's first hike.
We blessed Kellen and had all my family come (except Jason's fam , we missed you).

Here are the boys.

No More Daytime TV

Since I spend a good chunk of the day nursing Kellen I've found myself also watching a good chunk of daytime TV while I'm feeding him. And it pretty much stinks. But whats worse is a few weeks ago, thanks to a certain 3 year old, our tv audio got changed to SAP and we can't figure out how to change it back. As an exciting result many of the tv shows I used to watch are now in spanish. So I've had to find new things to watch like crazy infomercials found on obscure channels that I guess don't cater to hispanics. This has caused two problems:
First, its made me realize my kids are very behind in their life skills.
Has anyone seen "Your baby can read." It has 1 year olds reading words like, 'apple and gorilla'. Well Olivia is still trying to sing her ABC's and pronounce 'm' and 'n' as two seperate letters instead of one letter pronounced 'emen'. Then there's a crazy trend to forgo diapers from birth and begin potty training right away. These crazy women watch their newborns body language and rush them to a potty....newborns sitting on the toilet! One woman claimed her 7 month old was completley potty trained. Well Kellen is already behind on this life skill.
The Second bad thing day time TV has done is given me a crazy urge to spend money on things like 'Snuggies and Shammy's."
So tonight I've decided I'm going to try and not watch any TV when I'm feeding Kellen and instead read. I just requested a big pile of books from the library and hope the draw of 'the wonder hanger' doesn't pull me back.

Has anyone seen our Toaster?

So our toaster broke this morning which sucks because we use it everyday. I went to Target to buy a new one. I had the baby carrier in the main part of the cart so I put the new toaster underneath the cart. I paid for my purchases and left. After loading the three kids into the car, which seems to take forever I forgot to put my purchase into the car. Literally two minutes after I left the parking lot to go home, I realized I'd left the toaster on the bottom of the cart. I did a u-turn and raced back to the store only to find that the toaster was no longer there. I went inside Target to see if someone turned it in, which of course no one had. I was so mad. The best they could offer me was to take my number down incase someone turns it in later, which of course they won't. So all the way home I was fuming thinking about that 30$ that basically just got flushed down the toilet and the fact that I still don't have a toaster. I was in the worst mood. When we got home I went to work on dinner. About 10 minutes later Zoey asked me to come see something outside. On the wall across the street that sometimes has signs for garage sales or lost dogs was a lost and found sign for our toaster, made by Zoey. My heart melted and of course was no longer mad.