Sledding

This is from a couple of weeks ago...we've been a little budy getting back into school and all, so we haven't had time to update alot...



We finally got to go tubing. We bundled Avery up (with his new snow boots from Christmas) and took him to a little hill. He didn't really like his snow boots and didn't like to stand in the snow because he was a little tipsy. We went up the hill and down the hill in a tube, but Avery didn't really seem to care. He didn't cry but he didn't really indicate that he loved it either.

Later, we (without Avery) went snowmobiling up into the higher hills and went tubing. We found an awesome tubing hill. We don't have any pictures of that, but it was still alot of fun.

Walking in a Winter Wonderland!

Well, over Thanksgiving break, while Avery was at Brian's parents house, he learned how to walk! That is what we get for leaving him behind and going to Hawaii! We thought that he would only be walking a few steps here and there, but no, he goes all over, gets up by himself, and practically runs sometimes! Its so amazing- we love our little boy, and were sad to miss his first steps, but we are excited that he is walking!

Well, snow is finally here in Idaho and it is lovely! It has been freezing cold (below zero!) and we haven't wanted to go out in the snow to play. Today, we had a chance to go out in a little bit warmer weather. Avery got to try out his snowsuit from Aunt Candace- it looks pretty snazzy!

Some of Hawaii...More to Come!

Amanda's parents flew the family (minus the little kids) to Hawaii for Christmas. We had so much fun! We stayed on Oahu for four days and Maui for four days. Most of our pictures on Amanda's little sister's laptop since we ran out of room on our camera card. Also, our camera broke halfway through and we couldn't see what pictures we were taking, so we didn't take alot with our camera after that.

These are the pictures from Maui. The first day we arrived, we went to Iao Valley. It felt a little like Jurrasic Park. When we get the other pictures, we will give you more info on what else we did.

The day before we left we went on this snorkeling trip to a tiny little island off of Maui, called Molikini. It was really choppy in the water, so they didn't let us snorkel off the boat for very long, but then we went over to a bay called Turtle Town, where supposedly you can see lots of turtles. We (half of our group) saw 1 little turtle and that was it. But it was still fun. Then the boat took us over to a reserve area where we saw lots of dolphins.

Who Ya Going to Call?...Ghostbusters!

This is almost a month late, but here are our Halloween costumes. Avery was a little white ghost and we were the Ghostbusters. We had a fun Halloween with a party with our friends at Chris & Julie's house in IF. We did some bobbing for apples, eating doughnuts on a string, and just some fun times. Avery and Amanda went trick-or-treating to Grandma Downs' on Saturday, the 31st while Brian stayed home writing a paper :( This is Avery with Ava, our friends' little girl (she was a monkey!)