Saturday, June 30, 2012

Winter in Utah: Daily Life

Early Springtime Hike in the Foothills
Winter Hike


 So life in Logan wasn't all scenic winter vistas and authentic folk cuisine...
Real Live Green Jello with canned Pineapple in it!



There were a lot of exciting things we did. Like...

Eating Tasty over sized cookies...






Practicing Montessori levels of concentration with Auntie's goblets
Learning to Whistle while wearing a Cape Every Day


Collecting, labeling, and organizing hundreds or rocks
finding fossils


Learning to Braid

Performing science experiments to find the Xylum and turn stuff blue

homemade haircuts and wearing jammies all day
 Taking over the local playground



Eating flaming sushi


Getting fancy hair dos


 
flying kites


playing poker

Eating obscene amounts of Aggie Ice Cream

visiting the anthropology museum

And yes, building snow people!





And to make up for our lack of internet, we watched a LOT of library videos.

And carried our kids around in grocery bags.





Enjoying SPRING with our neighbors

Going to SCHOOL!!!







Mittens are AWESOME

Winter In Utah: Adventures

 So my excuse for not blogging is that in January we packed our suitcases, kissed our goats goodbye, and moved, for a semester, to Logan Utah. I thought it was going to be cold, isolated, shocking, and stressful. But see, that's the beauty of being a dour miserable pessimist like me! With expectations so grim, imagine my delight when the whole experience was, yes cold, but also wonderful. Rather than dribble a stream of adjectives across your eye-screens, I will commit to verb! 

We traveled, and drove, and played games, and quit the internet, and sampled local delicacies, and enrolled in school (University and Preschool) and lived small and shopped big and practiced our Utah dialects and hiked in the snow. It was great, great fun.

Look at that big fat dinosaur footprint! From a creature named, appropriately, Gigantopus!
 We said Brrrr to Bear lake
 And were wowed by the long drive out the Arches
 And by arches itself...



 It was, eh hem, electrifying.


 We saw the writing on the wall

 And Zions awed us.

Merry Christmas 2011!!!!

 Christmas comes but once a year folks... unless you don't blog for 6 months! Let's all put on our bathing suits, hum a little carol, and recall that sunny christmas morning only a few short months ago....
 When Santa came to town!
Maile says, "Tanta! Kitmas! Gif me Canny! Gif me koklat! Say Ho, ho ho!!"
Yup, and he and his handsome elves came ripping into the harbor on some killer waves in their outrigger. That beats reindeer any day, eh?


Ah, sweet memories or winter time....