Monster Trucks!!!

GRAVEDIGGER

This monster truck is HUGE! We have checked out a lot of books from the Library about Monster trucks lately. We know about Big Foot and Superman and Toro Loco. They burn a gallon of fuel/second. These Trucks are awesome. Josh got off work early one Friday and we took off to find a Monster Truck we we not disappointed.
We told the kids that our trip in the van was to a secret spot. We had one surprised little boy.
The first thing we did was check out the Gigantic Wheels.
The Grave Digger Driver was there and autographed Ty's picture. He said there are actually 8 Grave Diggers and they would all be driving the same night in different stadiums around the US and Canada.
Ty got to sit in the seat of the"lil digger" The stick shift is a green skull. . . Cool. Maybe we will make it to a Monster Jam sometime in the future.
After that we headed over to Chuck E Cheese for a good time with games and pizza. We had plenty of soda and rode some cool rides. I loved Skee Ball, Josh loved the Football game, Livvy LOVED the miniature merry go round, Riss loved the moving school bus and Ty loved the Roller coaster Ride. All in all a good fun family night.

WILD ANIMAL PARK

round 2

We went back to the Wild Animal Park and saw the bald eagle.
This is the Gorilla Habitat seriously we missed the gorilla's in the picture they were moving and are hiding behind the man in the gray sweatshirt.

Here is Rissy giving Livvy some Love on Condor Ridge. Liv was a tad grouchy but that didn't phase Marissa.
And Again the Lovely Rhino Shot This picture is shadowy but the alternative picture had a very unattractive angle.
Here's Josh and I taking it easy on a weekend off. It was nice to just sit in the sunshine. (Ty took the picture)
This is a picture of the Condor spreading it's wings. Pretty cool.
And here are the beautiful elephants there were 13 elephants in all 4 babies born in 2010 the littlest was born Dec. 26th. They were cute and smelly.

BONSAI. . . .

Each of the trees in this garden were unique. I think I would like to grow a Bonsai tree it would be cool to see what little miniature world would come to life. Here are a few of my favorites. And that stop ended our adventure in the wildlife animal park Until next time.

Christmas 2010

Merry Christmas

We traveled to Arizona for Christmas and spent Christmas Eve with the Adams Family in Show Low. I was a great night of tradition and fun. Here we all are in our Christmas PJ's from my Mom and Dad. This year for Christmas we (the children) played the 12 Days on my parents with Christmas Letters. It was really cool to write about our memories and to thank them for all the time and love they have given to us. My Dad wrote each family a special Christmas Letter in return. Overall a Very Sweet Christmas to remember.

The Adams Family

The Boone Family on Christmas Eve by the magical Tree.

Our family has a tradition of Lining up in the hall way before we get to see what Santa brought. When I grew up my Dad always made us wait until he had showered and was dressed. There really was no point waking up a 4:00am because we couldn't go in until 8 or 9. All 7 of us kids would crawl in one bed together and talk and giggle until my dad called us. Then we would line up in age order youngest to oldest in the hall way. The anticipation was awesome!!!

So Here we are Waiting in the Hall. I love the kids faces!

Here are the girls in their Christmas Pj's they loved the Snow bunny on the front Liv liked to pet it over and over.

Ty was excited to get CARS!!!! Lots of cars.

Rissy Loved her boots and dolls.

And the Beautiful dress from the Garcia's, she twirled and twirled and wore it for the next 4 Sundays in a row. The Princess book is now a favorite for bed time stories. I have to admit I like reading about the new adventures of the princesses too.

Livvy got a baby doll and stroller she was just excited to run around it was hard to keep her in one place.

She was focused on ripping paper see her tongue. I'm not sure where her pants went.

We traveled over to Snowflake Christmas day and enjoyed family there for the rest of the day. Laura gave Josh an autographed football from Lavell Edwards and decked the family out in BYU t-shirt attire. :) We met Caleb's girl friend Jenni and played a lot of Bananagrams with Joseph and Jessica.

It wasn't a "White Christmas" but 3 days later a blizzard blew in and dumped a good 1 1/2 feet of snow with high drifts from the wind. Marissa didn't like the cold wind and only took a few steps in the snow before retreating inside. Ty on the other hand braved the snow drifts and ran like crazy. He loved it and Josh was a good sport to go right along with him. It was VERY COLD outside. Grandma Boone was working at the hospital when the blizzard came and stayed with us in Show Low one night because the roads were too slick to travel on to Snowflake. It was fun to have her for the night. It was -11 at night and 4 degrees when we left town to travel home. The roads were ice packed but began to break up as the day warmed up.

We enjoyed the vacation and especially the Family Time. Here is a picture of the Road headed toward Salt River Canyon. We saw cars flipped upside down and some abandoned in snow drifts. We made it home safely and are glad to be back.