Playing catch up again and other cute pictures

I am lame. That's all there is to it. Well, that and I'm trying to work, go to school, teach piano lessons, and still spend some time with my family - it makes me a bit busy for blogging.
But I do want to post what we've been up to the last couple of months. We've done a little of this and that and been here and there, but here are the highlights:

During a weird warm spurt in February, we decided to to take the kids and one of Alyssa's friends to Cathedral Gorge. It was still a bit nippy, but nothing we couldn't handle. The kids and dog ran and climbed all over the place. We then took them trilobite hunting - fossil hunting. Below are the girls holding their fossil-riddled shale. That was all followed up by pizza at Pioneer Pizza in Caliente (yep, we have to drive 2 hours or so to get good pizza).






For my birthday we decided to go to Idaho Falls and then cross country skiing at Harriman State Park. It was so nice and peaceful - we had a realy good time (at least for the first four miles, until we got really tired)!




Best photo series ever! Mike trying to ski down a little hill:




Molly

Starting the manly child early:


We went to St. George to get away from the cold. We love it there. This time we were trying to find Coral Sand Dunes and ended up finding this cool place in Arizona. It's called Pipe Springs and it was an old LDS ranch. They have renovated it for the tourists. They even make you pancakes in the morning and bread in the afternoon. They were also teaching people how to make sandals out of agave, but we didn't spend the time to do that.




Zion National Park



B loves appliances; I think he's been in every one of ours.