Big Trees

Here is a little peak at some of the amazing trees that surround the area we live in.
We have gone hiking at least once a week and to the beach several times since we have gotten here, but we keep forgetting the camera or forget to take pictures. We have seen elk and even some dolphins and a sea lion. We have collected agates, jade and other cook beach rocks.

More Fun and Family in Utah

Yummy!

Isn't he a heart breaker?

Great Grandma's 90th Birthday Celebration!

Lots of Time on the tramp in the sun!

Aint nothin new under the sun

In summer 2008 we made a much smaller move. Across the neighborhood instead of across the country. The whole process wiped Kid #2 out and he zonked in the middle of the day on the floor (stairs actually).


New state, new kid, same story:

It's no double complete rainbow...

We (by we I mean Dad) really liked the wide open expanses on our drive.

Salt flats with Grandpa and Grandma...

Birthday on the road

Kid #2 is lucky. His mid-summer birthday is usually on vacation and he gets repeated celebrations at multiple places. He had a NH friends party before we left and two in UT!



On his actual birthday, he wanted to go bowling, so Grandpa and Grandma took the whole family (cousins and all).

Then, we had a Super Mario themed party on Sunday for Kid #2 and super cousin with almost the same birthday. Notice how I'm carefully not writing names. Hopefully no one looks closely at that picture.

Kid #3's favorite thing about this entire trip was meeting everyone's animals. And feeding them things that probably made them sick.

The real victory...

We are finally going to give you all some closure and wrap up the cross-country blog. There was a lot of cool stuff on our trip across the country. Historic sites, big cities, scenic farmland, family and friends. But we weren't going to be really satisfied unless we won the license plate game. You sort of have to on a cross-country drive, right? We ended up tapping into a North Dakota connection in SLC to get one of the last holdouts. Cheating? We think not. Anyway, it broke a license plate drought and we saw one on the interstate a few days later so it was worth it. But Hawaii? What are the chances of randomly running across a Hawaii license plate?


Turns out the chances are good. We saw this right after getting back on the road for the last leg from UT to CA. Forgive the photo quality- this picture was taken at 76 mph on I-215 at the SLC airport. But make no mistake, that is a genuine Hawaii plate. In the middle of Utah. I'm sure that poor guy will never forget the minivan of honking, waving, maniacs that chased him down the interstate. Totally worth it.

Sea to shining sea

We made it! Sorry for the blog delay. We are in Arcata and back in Box Hell as we unpack. More to come later and pictures of the last leg, but no internet yet at the new house!

Colorado recap

We visited the lions, tigers, and bears (oh my) at the wild animal sanctuary



And scoped out the livestock at the Boulder County Fair

No photos of the traditional crawdad fishing trip with grandpa. We invented a new gangbusters crawdad catching technique involving canned cat food, rocks, and little mesh bags. Also saw (and highly recommend) Despicable Me. #2 got an early birthday present- a Nerf dart gun. He has shown remarkable restraint, but the little suction-cup darts do turn up in some strange places. Thanks for a great visit Grandma and Grandpa!

Some kids...

Did you ever feel like your kids don't respect you?



We saw this kid at the Boulder County Fair. His mom needs to stand up for herself. It's been a great couple of days visiting grandma and grandpa in CO. More pics to follow, although we seem to be forgetting the camera everywhere we go. By the way, if anyone knows where we can pick up Hawaii and Alaska license plates between here and California let us know- if we can get those we'll make the full set.

Oh happy day...

nuff said.

On the road again

Another long day in the car- Kansas City to Longmont in 10.2 hours (including a stop at DQ).



Some call it monotonous, but we thought the heartland was mighty impressive.

Impressive or not, you can only take so much of the inside of a minivan on the interstate.

Spending a few days now with Grandpa and Grandma in CO. Our motto is- "why rush?"

Kansas Kuzzins

We got to spend a couple of days with Dad's sister and her family in Kansas City. The kids loved to play with their cousins and take a break from the car. We got to swim (Kid #3 found another cat pool), visit the giant albino catfish at Cabela's, and eat genuine home-smoked Kansas City BBQ.



Kid #1 even got to go to cutie cousins birthday party at the princess salon. They got pampered with manicures, pedicures, and makeovers. Girlie girl heaven.

Hooray for KC- on to Colorado!