Update

Well as you can see I do fall behind in keeping you all updated. We have done things but I have no pictures. On the Saturday before Memorial Day we helped the Moores harvest about 250 pounds of honey. That project takes nearly all day. We have also started playing in an Ultimate Frisbee League in Orem, UT on saturday mornings. This year I actually convinced Mitch to play with me and I think he is going to enjoy it. I have also been engrossed in reading the book Eldest. It is the sequal to Eragon. Mitch and I both enjoyed reading these books and are now awaiting the release of the third book Brisingr. If you like dragons, elves, dwarves, magic and danger you will like these books. We have also been busy with helping Jana as she has aquired a second job so I help her by watching Liam for a few hours a couple of days a week. Mitch keeps busy with work and trying to study for his next actuarial exam. He did pass his first one the end of July. Savannah has hit the terrible two's even though she isn't two yet. She has recently become stubornly independent. She has to do everything herself. She says "I do!" so I let her try. And then she comes to me for help or just gets mad and throws it. She decided to pick out her dress today so she picked out the had made dress from Mexico her Grandma Net got for her in Cancun. She had never wanted to wear it before today so we were totally willing to let her wear it to church. She is funny she has even developed a favorite shirt she wants to wear all the time. So it isn't fun when it gets dirty and she has to pick something else to wear. She will be two in three weeks! My how the time flies.

Here is Savannah in her hand-made dress from Mexico.

Hair Cut

A couple of weeks ago I cut Savannah's hair in the back for the first time. It was getting a little crazy and it was different lengths. So now her hair is mostly one length and we think she is cute. (You can compare her hair with the previous post.)

Painting

I thought that maybe Savannah might have fun with fingerpaints since we had seen Sofie playing with finger paints. The only thing is I can't get her to use her fingers! She doesn't like to get them dirty so I got out some paint brushes so she paints with paint brushes instead.

Movies

Savannah has taken to watching a few of the same movies over and over again. I don't know if she really likes them or if she just likes the blue cases but these are the same movies we watch all the time.

Savannah loves to watch Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium. She even can quote parts of the movie like "its magic" and "don't go." She is so cute.

The Sword and the stone is one we have watched frequently in spurts. We either watch it every day or take a break for a while.

Over the Hedge isn't one of my favorites but Savannah seems to be hot and cold about this one too. We go through periods where we watch it every day and then we will go for a few weeks without watching it.

I have got her to watch a princess movie or two, but the covers to those ones aren't as attractive I guess:)

Yellowstone Trip (An Overview)

Well we have far too many pictures to post so here is an overview of what we did and saw on our trip.

First off we stopped by the Idaho Falls temple since we were in the area. It was closed while we were there but we were only stopping by to see it. You can see a little guy up on the spire working on it. It was beautiful and we enjoyed the stop. The River and the falls are right behind the temple so it makes the whole area beautiful and peaceful.

Next we stopped by the Rexburg Temple. By the way this was our first time to these cities. This temple was beautiful as well and I was amazed that it was pretty much located on BYU-Idaho's campus. So we got to look over the campus while we were there as well.

The next day we finally got to the park. The first wildlife we saw when we got to the park was a bald eagle, sorry I have no pictures. Then we spotted (Kristie spotted) two elk on the side of the road next to a picnic area so we pulled over for a closer picture. Here they are on the other side of the stream.

We stopped for lunch at a little picnic spot somewhere in the park and we had a few little friends that came to join us. Here is a picture of one.

We were traveling down the road headed toward old faithful and the hotpots when we encountered a traffic jam. I leaned out the window to see what the hold up was and as you can see we had a buffalo as a pace car. There was a Yellowstone tour bus at the front and he would not pass the buffalo for anything so for a half an hour we followed this buffalo down the road at his pace until he finally found a bit of grass that was adequate to wander into.

There were a great many hot pools to see at Yellowstone. But my favorite one was sapphire pool. It had the most brilliant color of any of the pools.

Here is old faithful in all its glory. I remember going to old faithful as a kid and couldn't understand why it was called old faithful because it was late and we had to wait for it. Well it didn't disappoint me this time it was 15 min late this time too.

Here we are in the car on the way home. I think I was bored and thought I would take a picture of the three of us in the car. Savannah had had enough by this point and was fast asleep.There are many more things here at this park that are noteworthy and memorable, but we will leave them for you all to discover when you go to Yellowstone.

Singing

Savannah was singing really loudly while I was cooking her and egg. So this is a video clip of her singing.

Picture Please

Savannah has been getting out the camera lately and making me take pictures of her. She gets out the camera and cocks her head to the side while holding out the camera. These were just a few of the pictures she made me take.