We all had a great time in Williamsburg before Christmas! Hyrum loved the horses, fire (in the blacksmith shop), and the fife and drum corps. Hyrum is just checking which way the wind is blowing before telling us where to go. :)

Hyrum came up to me one day with a great big grin on his face. He had just put his crocs on by himself. On the wrong feet, of course. Later, he decided to try Daddy's shoes on too...

Here is Hyrum writing his name...just kidding :)

After all the books we brought home after helping out with the bonus room blitz, we needed another bookshelf, so Greg built another (stacking) bookshelf. If they just look like three crates sitting on top of each other, well, that's kind of the look we were going for. We'll stain them when it gets a little warmer outside.

After about three months of saponification, Greg finally wrapped up the soap he made. Here are a few bars.

We've been having some really cold, snowy days around here. The University cancelled class because of the cold for the first time since 1978 on Tuesday. There's about a foot of snow on the ground that just won't leave. Luckily, we don't have to shovel our sidewalk.

Hyrum's Easter

Easter was a little chilly, but sunny. We did our easter egg hunting on the saturdays before easter. We did one round at home, and another with the ward at a nearby park.

He loves the swings - he is old enough to hang on to a big swing by himself. We go to the playground when it is warm. It has hailed and snowed a bit these past two days (spring, where are you?), so more playground days will be in the near future, but not now.

Hyrum is cute

Merry Christmas!

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Ann Arbor Part 2

Yesterday, we went to Three Cedars Farm as a family! It is a fun place where you can climb on all sorts of play items, and there is a petting zoo of sorts, and all sorts of fun things to see.

Here are my little Western boys :)

I love this cute son of mine! Ours - he he he...

Isn't he adorable? He can crawl quite well now in his army style way...

I love these two redheaded boys of mine....ridin' the rails on a cold November day...

Greg remembered the good old days of milking the cows....

(he really has only milked one once - and this is actually a plastic cow...could you tell?)

We had a good time feeding the goats

They really like food (hey, so do I...)

Greg enjoyed the licking sensation...

Greg and Hyrum enjoyed the playground equipment together

Hyrum and I enjoyed the little John Deere tractor area

We have an adorable little boy - that is the moral of this story day :)

Plus the fact that we love having good times as a family

And Hyrum loves playing with his Dad!

Hope you are all having fun fall adventures too!

Ann Arbor Part 1

Well, now that we have been living here for two and a half months, I thought it is time we show you a bit of what we are enjoying about Ann Arbor!

First, here is a picture of our cute 6.5 month old boy (right after we moved here)

We settled in pretty quickly to our condo - it is in a really nice neighborhood, and the condo is in great condition - we feel very lucky to be in such a good situation.

One of the things we enjoy about Ann Arbor is the abundance of natural beauty. Just up the road from us, we found a trail leading into the woods. We explored it together one Saturday - (incidentally, a few weeks later, Hyrum and I were out walking and it started to rain, and we took shelter in these woods - nice to have trees again!)

We have noticed vines growing around trees here - Greg has really wanted to climb them - and this Saturday, he seized the opportunity and climbed on up the tree - he's a man of the woods sometimes :)

I can't remember if it was this same day, or another day, that we also went to the Dexter Cider Mill, about 20 min. from Ann Arbor. Greg is wearing the same yellow shirt - and I am wearing the same red shirt - so I suppose it was the same day. How is that for scientific deduction? :)

Anyway - we had a good time. We were expecting to see an orchard and exhibits, but only found a small store with various goods in it (though they were also selling apple wine...interesting)

Due to the frost earlier this year, it killed alot of the apples, thus, cider and apples in general are more expensive, and so we only got a pint to try, but boy - it was delicious! Full of flavor, sweet, and almost tangy with the fresh crisp twist of apples in season - yum! As you can see, Greg and I were not the only ones who thought so....

First taste...

hmm....what is this?

well, deserves another try....

ohh...yeah.....

this is mine now....

mine for keeps...

don't try to take it away...

Dad cleverly got it away for a swig!

We also got some fresh donuts - wow - fresh donuts are so good! Plain and cinnamon sugar - yum!

This is the front of the store...

A quaint barn, with lots of good smells in it to enjoy

What a fun and delicious day! Thus, we have done some of the "Ann Arbor" items - enjoying a cider mill, and some of the beautiful nature around here :)