I realized as I went through our pics I really do not have any of Avi, Moran, or Lakota so here is a link to their page. Lots of photos there both from our visit there, and thier's here.

Here are some of our photos from the hike in Sedona.

Since we had left the main highway to go to Southern Utah we realized it was not much further to add another stop we had wanted to make for some time. Flagstaff, AZ. Why another sprawling Western city you ask? Our friends Avi, Moran, Ophek, and Lakota live there, that's why. We had actually never seen Ophek outside of the womb, and it had been more than two years since we had seen the others. So we headed out across the desert on two lane roads and found our way to Flag. We had a great albeit too short visit complete with a trip down to Sedona to do some hiking and lots of playing with the kids.

So while Lindsey did here extension presentations the boys (Joe, Diesel, Denver, and Papa) went for a hike. As posted before National parks are horrible places to hike with dogs, so we went to the national forest and found a ridge to hike.

Joe rode in the backpack the entire way, the photos were taken from the highest point we could reach before the ridge cliffed out. The last photo was taken back down at the bottom with the ridge in the background. You can see the cliffed out part of the ridge where papa did not feel comfortable scrambling with Joe in the pack. The dogs loved this hike as they got to run free and not sit in the hotel room or car all day.

So we started our Christmas travels a bit early this year. We decided to drive to Southern California, about a 16 hour drive under normal circumstances. However, Lindsey had extension work to do in Southern Utah so we choose to start the trip with a slight detour. The place she had to do the work was near Capitol Reef National Park. Our first night there we went on a short road hike. National Parks do not allow dogs anywhere except roads and then only on a leash. Interesting though they will pave the crap out of these beautiful places and all kinds of developments to encourage massive number so people.....sorry I digress. This was a beautiful place and Joe loved the opportunity to stretch his legs and run around, the dogs did not.

The very last night before we left on the road trip Joey and papa got to playing on the floor, so papa grabbed the camera and shot some photos.

A couple of days before we headed out on our big road trip Joe and papa were doing some packing and he got to playing with one of papa's head lamps. Also included in this set is a picture from a short ski tour papa did with one of his new friends in Logan, Wally. The photo is taken looking back over Logan (the hazy valley area on the right side). If we were to CSI this you could see our house, but since that is not physically possible you can just imagine.

So it has been a hectic month and a half. During that time we made a road trip to Southern California, via Southern Utah and Flagstaff, AZ. We have had our house full of company, then empty for less than 24 hours and full of company again. Joe and papa have gotten to ski together 4 times (papa has skied a total of 19 times this season). Things have finally slowed down so it is time to flood the blog with photos from the past 40 days or so. So hang on here we go.

The first set of photos were actually taken the same evening as the dance party video. Joe got into the Sam's club bin of animal crackers and thought he would help the dogs out with some snacking. The pictures say the rest.

I like this video especially because he goes and adjusts the sub-woofer, then the master volume, then goes and does a little speaker maintenance before he really gets down.

First post of a long time no updates. We had a great Thanksgiving in Boise, lots of pics to go with it, including licking the spatula, going to the zoo and a few other things. But wanted to post this pic of Joe at our favorite breakfast place in Boise, the kind of place there is usually a line (but they have free coffee). I have a video on the way, and more photos.

Lots of fun last weekend. We went to SLC and caught up with our friends Mark and Dannielle there. We all went to the Real Salt Lake game. They were playing Chivas USA in the first leg of the first round of the MLS Cup playoffs. We had great seats and Real won on a goal in the 90th min. The goal was scored on the end we were sitting. Joe finally learned what papa sounds like when he yells, and he did NOT like it....at first. However he very quickly figured it out and before half time he was standing on papa's lap yelling at the field and pumping his fist with juice cup in hand. Late in the second half the little boy behind us came back from the concession stand with his mom and a pretzel. Joe proceeded to take a page right out of papa's book and dirtbagged a piece of pretzel from the people. All and all it was a fun day, now it's on to California for Joe and papa as we go to see G and G shirley plus Aunt Joellen, Aunt Betny, and Uncle Mike. Maybe if we are lucky we can catch the second leg of the first round at Chivas in LA....hmmmm!?



Our seats were close enough that the game was interesting to Joe for much of the time.


At one point I think he lost a little interest in the game so he played "how many animal crackers can I get in my mouth".

He also took advantage of some down time to cuddle with mama.

Some pics from our recent exploitation of the nice fall weather, where-in Joe demonstrated his proficiency at handling un-level terrain, and discovered the doggy door to the doggy den.

New video, I think it says everything it needs to.

More Uncle Charlie pics



Is that a Patagonia ad?

Denver makes sure there are no chicken bits on Joey's face left over from diner.

Uncle Charlie was here visiting again for a few days, which means his camera got turned mostly towards Joe. So here are a couple of posts with some of those pictures.




That garbage can is one of Joe's favorite outdoor toys.

Those pesky tree rats just love the black walnut tree in the back yard.

"Blue Steel" or is it "Magum"? Either way it's a work in progress.

We spent a day in Salt Lake since mama had meetings down there. Most of the day was spent chasing Joe and picking up the things he dropped (in this case it's his juice cup)