Hiking and Skating and Skating and Skating

It was a beautiful day today to hike the foothills that are convenietly located directly across from Gavin and his buddies favorite skate park. In the last picture you can see the skate park way below from the top of the trail before it bends right and out of sight. My friend Sherry and I hiked while our boys happily skated. Afterwards it was off to the coffee shop for coffee and cinnamon rolls then back to the skate park where I hung out with some other moms most of the day.

Miracle Hot Springs

Monday night I went camping with my friend Heidi and her kids. We stayed in one of the thermal heated domes pictured. It didn't take long to discover that the floor was heated and what a pleasure that was! We spent a lot of time soaking in the natural thermal heated pool where the water was like silk. We were all very relaxed when it came time for bed but were awaken by a fierce wind storm that blew most of the night. It is still blowing here! I sure am enjoying Gavin's Spring Break. Today I took him and a friend to the skate park for serveral hours where they met even more friends. They didn't let the wind stop them.

And we were swinging...

Last Saturday while Jim and I were driving around to different nursery's showing off his potting benches we happened across this sweet deal: Nice swing and two matching Adirondack looking chairs for $60.00. "We'll take it!", Jim announced immediately. He is so happy to not have to build a swing (too time consuming and in the way of his other projects), and well, I'm just happy to have a swing!

Scary Mary

Calling all cops!

All went well at the dance. Gavin told me he got his groove on. I forgot to mention a funny story that happened last Thursday night. We were eating dinner when Gavin turned around and looked out the living room window. "Uh, there are two cops standing in our driveway, staring at us". What?? I turn around and look and sure enough there are two cops standing there staring at us through our window. We all go outside pronto. Can we help you?? As it turns out the policemen were called out on a dog disturbance, thankfully not our dogs but they wanted to come and have a look see of our back yard. After looking (snooping) around they determined the problem was next door and asked to use our gate to access our neighbors yard. We let them and they were able to sort the problem out. After they left Jim and I decided it was nice not to have anything to hide. You never know when the cops are going to come calling!

First Dance

Gavin is meeting his girlfriend at the Jr. Highs St. Paddy Day's dance tonight. He isn't planning on dancing and I have strict orders not to show up. His girlfriend's name is Lena and we haven't met her yet but we have seen her picture. She plays soccer, skis, and is in the drama club. Oh yeah, and she's cute!

Spring has Sprung

Spring is definitely in the air. I was determined to ride my bike today for ten miles. I've been slowly working up to it..5 miles here, then eight, finally today 10. Friday night my boys went snowboarding and I had a couple of girlsfriends over for fondue. We cooked up chicken and peppers, then sweet mandarin orange slices in semi sweet chocolate. It was yummy, hense the ten mile bike ride. Here are some pictures from my ride today. I had to include my cow friends. And one of Jimbo spraying weeds. Gavin is off skating with his friends today. He has become a vegetarian and announced the other night that he has a girlfriend. He asked if he could go to the library and hang out with her. Of course! Any girl who wants to hang out at the library is alright with me.

Grizzly Friend

This is one of many stuffed critters we saw at the Idaho's Sportmans Show. This particular booth sells excursion trips to Alaska to hunt these bad boys. We had to do some convincing that we already have an inside guide that can hook us up if we want to, our brother-in-law Billy.

DAREDEVIL

The ramps just keep getting taller. Funny how it started out so innocently. Now they are these huge monstrosity of a project as these pictures clearly show! That's a boy for ya.