What to say . . . . . .

I really am not sure exactly what to say. This past weekend Mat and I sent our girls home with Grandpa and Grandma Wood Friday evening while we did a "date night" -- dinner and basketball games. We went and watched my cousin Melissa, Boulder City Highschool, play Lowery for 3A State semi-finals, and then also our "boyz" Trevor and Lewis, Spring Creek Highschool play Moapa for the 3A semi finals too. It was fun, we got to visit with my Uncle and Aunt and our friend from Spring Creek. The plans after that were to head to Alamo, and then go rock hunting out at Delamare for Cache's headstone, but we heard the news that my cousin Keola's wife Tasche had passed away Thursday evening. So we headed to Alamo, we did go find Cache's headstone -- which my dad hurt his leg trying to help heft it into the back of the jeep -- but then Sunday morning Joni and I and my girls (who were just starting to get over the croup) drove to Boise, ID. What can I say? Family is amazing!!!! It was amazing to be up there together with all of them. Yes it was wonderful to see everyone and hopefully it won't be so long until we see them again, but it was more than that -- unexplainable. Keola is, I want to say "strong", but I know he probably doesn't feel that way -- their brandnew twin boys are beautiful and very loved. The funeral was Monday and then we left later Tuesday and drove back to Vegas and got in late last night (with still sick girls). It was a "what can I say . . . . " kind of weekend. Love my Idaho FAM!!

Love My Girls

Happy Valentines Day!

My father in-law actually came down to visit this weekend, so we've all been visiting. We had a nice big breakfast all together and then we took off to hike up through the tunnels by Lake Mead -- Mat hadn't been so he wanted to go see. It was a good time and the girls will crash tonight. Then we of course made and decorated heart sugar cookies -- pretty sure that Dalia ate more of the frosting than she got on her cookies, which was a lot. Mat also kept sneeking icing I'm sure -- growing up we always did cream cheese frosting with our sugar cookies, but Mat doesn't like cream cheese, so our frosting now is always a butter cream frosting, so everyone ate more than their share. It was fun, hope everyone's valentine's day is great.

Dalia and Grandpa Phil walkin along.

Daddy and Maty

Grandpa and the girls.

Daddy and Dalia

Dalia and her "special" rocks that she had to get for me!

Maty and Dalia rolling and cutting.

Dalia eating her cookie, you can see the tons of frosting, just imagine how much she already ate!

Mat is very proud of his cookie decorating skills, especially his flower in the middle.

Some of our decorating results, we had fun!

Playing with GIMP Today!!

Well, today the girls and I met Lynette Thiriot and her boys at Rodeo park to play. The kids had a great time, and it was fun to watch them just run and play and be kids. After getting a few punches, pushes, and whining out of there systems they played together pretty well. The day was beautiful and was even better when after lunch my girls crashed for naps after a long morning of fun!! So with no "real" chores to do I got on my computer and started messing around with GIMP -- which Lynette told me about and gave me the info for the download, it is basically like photoshop, but free --- MY FAVORITE. So I've had fun messing around with some old pictures learning where all the tools are and what they do. And again I can't post pictures so you'll just have to imagine my talented masterpieces.

FINALLY, JEEP PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maty, Tristan, and Dalia

Flexing

Looking out over the Valley, long way down!

Gibson, Triston, and Dalia

Maty all on her own, and she didn't want down.

It was cloudy, and raining off and on, but the clouds were just hanging over us --

so it is misty and foggy.

Willie's Jeep and Mat's Jeep

Jeeping Pictures

Well still no luck with the pictures, I'll keep on trying and figure it out.