Down by the River Jordan

Last weekend we went down the road to a park on the Jordan River.  Not the River Jordan of Israel, but the real one here in the land of Zion.  Thankfully, Hezbollah didn't fire any rockets over the river while we were down there, because that might have ruined our day.  But there was a nice little playground the boys enjoyed climbing on, and a paved trail that followed along the banks of the river.  The water was moving pretty rapidly, and was almost a turquoise color and I’m sure it was incredibly cold as well, so it was not something you’d want to go swimming in at the moment.  Also, the wind in the valley here gets to be pretty intense, which made it difficult to do some bubble blowing, but we tried anyway.  We took a few photos (obviously), so here they are…

I told Becky she'll probably have to deal with taking this kid to the hospital many times in his youth for broken bones.  He's terrified of large humans, but fearless when it comes to death defying stunts such as high playground slides and climbing up ladders and such.

Skippin' rocks on the river by the path.  We didn't let him get too close though, because we didn't feel like a rapid water rescue would be enjoyable.

Took some time to try to blow bubbles, but the wind was ripping them away before we even had a chance to catch any.

Paul is a veteran bubble blower.

Adam learned a valuable lesson in sharing that day.

Nothing even slightly mischievous about this kid. 

Spring is (almost) slightly, kind of, sort of here in the valley!  A few windy, cloudy days are probably left, but the sun will be here full time soon enough!!

There's a Creek in the City...

City Creek is here!! City Creek is here!!  Or at least that’s what all the giant murals on the buildings downtown say.  Here in Salt Lake, the LDS church has gotten into the business of luxurious, downtown mall real estate apparently.  They dropped a ton of money to develop some big time, high fashion mall downtown called City Creek that’s apparently opening next weekend.  Looks like a whole bunch of places I wouldn’t shop even if I had too much money and nothing to do with it.  But, whatever, we went to City Creek Park instead.  Normally, there’s kind of a cool stream running underneath a couple of bridges in the park, but it’s all drained out at the moment.  So the boys threw the soccer ball in the drained waterway, and I climbed in to get it.  And then they did it again.  And then they did it again.  Good times on a sunny, early spring day!

Oh these boys...

Paul never encourages his little brother to do anything to harass their mother or father... no, Paul would never do that.

And that would be one of Adam's many faces showing the kind of kid he's rapidly becoming... the continuous troublemaker.

Oh Paul, how horrible to have to stop to take a picture.  But, truly a beautiful, warm day out in the park.  Maybe... just maybe, spring is here!

Another quick trip to Montana

Finally getting around to making a blog post after not having the internet for a whole week!  I know, I can’t imagine what life would be like if we had to live any longer than that without the internet.  I’m pretty sure life was next to impossible to survive way back in the days before Blogger, Wikipedia, Facebook and MLB.com.  I really don’t know how you old people ever lived back in those early days of the Earth.  Oh well, we’ve got it back for now, so it’s time to update this thing.  So Becky and Amber took all the kids and went to Montana for a week.  Unfortunately, Becky didn’t take many photos, so there aren’t many to share, but here are just a few of Paul and Adam swimming with their cousins Brooke and Sophia at one of the Missoula pools.

Brookie B in water wings.

And Sophia, getting older by the day.

And of course, Adam Michael, all wrapped up and ready to go.

And on a side note, this is our 200^th blog post! Unbelievable!  For almost four years now we’ve been posting on here and sharing pictures of us (mostly Paul – who happens to be absent from this post), and we hope you’ve enjoyed reading it as much as we have making it.  Stick around for the next two hundred!