Long time, no post.

Sorry that it's been so long. I'm sure you are all just dying to see pictures and read about our sweet little life. But that's just it, we haven't been in home in a while. For President's day weekend we headed on over to visit Gramma and Grampa C's. We went hiking, played games, ate really good cookies and visited with Kimbrey, Daniel and Chase as well. It was such a nice, relaxing weekend and we were so sad to have to leave on Tuesday.
Porter's weekend was a total success, so many new things happening in just 5 days! Times were a bit rough though as there's a nice little tooth that's starting to pop through. Porter also started crawling on his hands and knees at Gramma C's and now is so confused about which way is best, the army crawl or on his hands and knees.

Porter also started to pull himself up on things and walk around them (I tell you what, it was a big weekend for Porter!)

Last week on the phone, Angie and I discussed her blog about 27 things in 2007. I decided I had better come up with a list (don't worry, I'm still trying to come up with 23 things (my age) that I did last year... it will be posted soon.) But, since it has been so difficult coming up with just 23 things, I decided that I had better start getting out and experiencing life. Angie and I also discussed this and decided that the best way to do this would be to come up with a our own bucket-lists. If we had a list of things that we needed to get done, then we should be able to complete some each year and have something bigger than "ate a lot of ice-cream" on the 24 things I did in 2008 list!

Although my bucketlist is far from over, there was one that I put on it that I was able to get a head start on this weekend and that is to climb/hike/drive to 50 arches in Utah. I thought that I had already been to quite a few and that this goal would be close to finished. Sadly I was incorrect, and when we found a map to Arches National Park and I started counting the arches that I've been to I could only count 4. All those trips to Moab and I have only been to 4. I decided I'd better get going, and I'm proud to say that I did.

We first headed to Double Arch, which quickly became a favorite of mine and Kimbrey's. Double Arch is breathtaking.

Thanks for the shot Carri. I love that we're silhouetted in the arch!

We then headed to the Windows, Turret Arch, Tapestry Arch and the last stop of the day was Broken Arch. Sadly, due to the cold and the wind and night setting in, I didn't even get the "broken" part of Broken Arch in the picture, but I promise you it was there.

We took a break from hiking on Sunday, but came back for more on Monday and Tuesday. On Monday, Kyle drove me and Porter out to Gemini Bridges which is a gorgeous site, but also a little frightening for those of us frightened of heights (ie. me).

For those of you who haven't been to Gemini bridges, this is actually two arches as there is a large crack dividing it into two. You can see the front of the landcruiser in this picture, giving you a sense of how enormous this hole is and how big of a drop off there is. We got out and hiked to the enormous hole in the ground, which terrified me. Then hiked around the rim of the canyon to get this photo in front of it. This valley is breathtaking. On Tuesday, Kyle, Porter, Carri and I took off to Tower Arch. I have to say it's one of the prettiest hikes that I think I have ever taken. The arch was beautiful, and enormous (I don't think that the picture with all of us in front of it quite does the size of it justice.) The hike was longer than Delicate, but it was so beautiful.So in this weekend I tripled the amount of arches I have been to, bringing the count up to 12. (I figure that if I get desperate, Double, Double O and Gemini Bridges can all count as two bringing the count to 15!)

Thanks for the great weekend Dave and Carri, we love coming to visit! We always have so much fun. We can't wait to come again!

Oh, yeah. Porter also had his first piano lesson. What can I say? Child prodigy right here.