Heidi's Christmas Present

This is Heidi's Christmas present from me. ISn't it great? And no, I did not draw the picture freehand. I took a couple drawings I found and combined them. Some folk may have only needed a day or two, but it took me about a week. Heidi's reaction was that she got all teary. I took that as either a really good thing or a really bad thing, but she also said "It was very thoughtful. " (Heidi says ask her for a better quote.) To get the full effect you may want to click on the pic to make it real big.

More Yellowstone

Jumping into Firehole is probably the coolest thing in Yellowstone, except for maybe if you saw a bear. This was our favorite place to go. The water is about 5-10 degress warmer than a regular 'ol river cuz there are some hot springs that feed into it as well. So jumping in doesn't freeze your toosh off. Anyway don't we just look like we are having fun?

Another Part of Our Trip to Utah

With the Schultzs, (that sounds weird don't it?) we went to Yellowstone and got our fill of clean mountain air, rivers that you can see the bottom, and mountains that are over 552 ft high. Oh, yeah we also got to hang out with Heidi's family. I learned many things about Heidi that explain so much...soooooo much.

Look at the lovely water fall. To get down here you had to walk down a bazillion steps. Most of us made it all the way down. Going down was easy, getting back up was a lot more work.

I think he is crazy.

Heidi loves my hair style!

Doesn't that just look so clean?

Part of our trip to Utah over the summer

Over the summer we took a trip back to Utah to visit family and friends and mountains. We were really excited when Tom and Brook told us they were getting sealed while we were there...actually I think they were nice enough to wait for us to come. We were all trying to avoid the blinding sun.

Ahhh...look at the cute little happy couple.

Nice cheesy grins.

Uh, are you ready Dad?

Getting closer to everyone at least looking at the camera.

No! I was not passing gas.

That's how we do it Louisiana.

Don't you love candid pictures of real life?

Look! You can see the valley behind us! Isn't it great to climb up a mountainside?

So, our trip wasn't total relaxation. Heidi had to work for our room by mowing the lawn. I can't remember clearly, but I think she said she had never mowed a lawn before. She must have been depraived growing up.

Christmas Decorations

Heidi got out the Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving and decorated the whole house. IT was such a huge task and she did it all by her self! It took about 20 minutes...if you include vacuuming and cleaning. We didn't want to buy a tree this year again, but we wanted to have something that resembled a tree. So we decided that we would decorate one of our plants that is still living. As you can see we don't have many decorations. This is cuz we are buying/acquiring one ornament a year. I don't think we will ever get a cooler ornament then the one we got last year. IT was Santa riding a scooter. But wait there's more, if you pull the present it plays a song. And as an added bonus the headlight lights up. Topping that one will require something pretty amazing...but I am sure that Heidi will get one next year (hint, hint).

Ice Cream

For Christmas we got the best gift from some friends. These friends shall remain nameless to prevent any future repercussions from the ice cream parlor named after a rock with a low temperature...cough...ColdStone...cough...cough...when Heidi and I have the most delicious and therefore most popular ice cream establishment in the East and the West and that other place is out of business. But we don't want it to go out right now as we still want to go there until our place is big and famous. So back to the gift. It was a stone slab and two ice cream scoops- just like the ones they use at Coldstone- that you put in the freezer and then you can take regular ice cream and toppings and turn it into what you would pay $5 for. Now if you don't know what I am talking about and you have not been to Coldstone before, then this whole post probably holds no meaning for you. But Heidi and I are very excited about this gift. We think that if I get bored with OT that we could open up our own private "Frigid Rock". Thank you anonymous friends.