Mitchell Rocks!

On Saturday we went to dinner at the home of one of Clint's co-workers. He and his wife invited their neighbors and our family to come over for dinner and play games afterwards. Due to the nature of Clint's work there was, naturally, a projector handy to enlarge the Wii gaming experience for the evening. Clint's co-worker, Jay, had seen me play Guitar Hero around Christmas time and had been telling his neighbors about it. They asked me to play for them that evening. I did put on a performance but it was nothing to Mitchell's. He demanded a turn and was just as intense about playing as the rest of us. He even got 2 notes right in one of the songs that he played. He's definitely on the fast path to "rock"dom.

Friends? Rivals?

Wednesday evening was the annual Cub Scout Cake Auction. About a week beforehand Clint and our good friend Keven decided to bring cheesecakes dressed in school pride to see which would sell for more. It's too bad that a bet wasn't made because even though Keven worked harder and made his Ute cake fancy, the BYU caked pulled through for the win.

Rare Moments

If you ask Mitchell what he thinks of Caleb he'll tell you that he loves his little brother. He is very excited to share a room with him. When we stay at other people's houses and you ask him where he should sleep he'll tell you that he needs to sleep with Caleb. However, if Caleb comes within 2 feet of where he is, his inner demon is unleashed. Mitchell also is an unwilling partcipant when it comes to picture-taking. He runs in the other room or hides his face if the camera comes out. So I'm hoping that this picture is showing what can potentially be a constant in the future!!

BRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Clint took his scouts on a winter campout last night. He has been talking about this for awhile and his scouts have been really excited about it. Before he left he told me how worried he was that the boys wouldn't be adequately prepared for the cold temperatures. Luckily he only had to bring one boy home, but what's funny is that he made a pit-stop here to gather some stuff that he, himself, had forgotten!

When he came home he showed me his pants that he had been wearing while they built snow caves. They were frozen solid. I reminded him that we have some warm, waterproof, snow pants and he immediately put those on.

They had a lot of fun. They built 5 snowcaves total and only 1 collapsed. It collapsed because Clint was over confident about how high he could dig it out. It didn't fall in until everyone was out, though. My biggest fear was that a cave would collapse on the boys so I'm glad that everyone got out safely.

The coldest it got was 17 degrees below 0. I'm sure glad that I slept in a warm bed last night!

Let the "Cheese" Begin

We did it. Book club was last night. After hearing friends Cary, Megan and Missy talk about their blog pages I was finally convinced that our family should start one as well. My creativity level is inadequately equipped for this type of thing so this will be a make-fun-of-us-only page. If you find yourself pleasurably informed by the end I'll consider it a bonus.

Mitchell has figured out how to take pictures by himself. He and his friend, Alex, got a hold of the camera yesterday and were taking picture after picture. While Caleb was bathing this morning I looked at all of the pictures and found over 50 that they had taken. There were various pictures of walls, stairs, celings, arms, legs, blurs and an occasional picture worth saving. They had a blast.

Caleb's camera discovery is that if you see the camera aiming towards you, you should cheese as big as you can. He'll be crying hysterically when you point the camera his way and in an instant he is smiling. I'm excited for when we get pictures taken at a studio. I'll bring the regular camera along and we shouldn't have any problems getting him to smile.

Clint is finally back at work (at Energy Solutions) after a week of playing and traveling. He was able to go to an all-expenses-paid trip to the Fiesta Bowl in Arizona. He had a great time. He was picked up by a limo and driven around. He ate a 2 lb. lobster and sat at a suite at the game. I'm surprised he came back home at all! The day after coming home he flew right back out to New Mexico for a business trip for 4 days. By the last day Mitchell was telling me that he was "really ready for (his) daddy to come home". We all were.

I'm starting my second week as the Primary president in our ward. I'm finding myself on the phone more than I have ever been before. This will be a very good opportunity for me to stretch out of my comfort zone where I very comfortably love to remain. I'm still selling Avon, driving kids, and have just started watching a friend's child one day a week. It's good for me to have a variety of errands so I don't get too obsessed or drowned by one thing. I like to drown in a diversity.

We'll try hard to keep this up. We're excited to view others blogs as well!