Love these kids!

This is a post filled with random happenings, but I just wanted to show off my cute kiddos again.

We got a new elephant kiddie pool. The kids absolutely love it! Even though they were freezing, they refused to come in until I forced them.

My future kayakers!

This past Saturday we got a babysitter for Blake and then Rob, Natalie and I went kayaking down the Chama with some people from Rob's work. It was lots of fun, but we froze! I felt bad for bringing Natalie-she was shivering the whole time. But, according to the online weather report, it was supposed to be nice. When we were on the flat parts of the river, we heard lots of complaints from her about the cold, and then we'd hit the rapids, and all we'd hear were laughs. It was cute. I'm just really glad that our kayak did not tip and dump us in like it did for the others we went with.

The kids hung out with daddy that night while he unloaded the stuff.

Also this same day: we stopped for gas on our way back from kayaking. Rob was outside pumping it and I was inside the car with Natalie. I was holding my key chain and I must have hit a button on it that started the car alarm. We were scrambling trying to figure out how to turn it off. Meanwhile, everyone of course stared at us for a while and then some of them approached our car and tried to offer advice. Nothing worked. After 2 minutes, the alarm automatically shut off, but then when Rob tried to open the car door to get in, it set the alarm off again. Meanwhile, we were still frantically trying to find a way to turn it off. Another 2 minutes elapsed and finally some peace. Then Rob decided to get out to go to the bathroom, and you get the picture. Annoying! So while he was using the bathroom, the alarm shut off and then it went off again when he got back in. So we just started driving with it going. While on the road, I opened the car manual, which I had suggested that we do before, but Rob thought the alarm was installed by a company other than the one who had made the vehicle and that it wouldn't talk about it in the manual. Needless to say...I WAS RIGHT. The manual said to unlock the car from the outside to shut off the alarm. Apparently it's hard to think straight when you've got an annoying sound blaring in your ears. We enjoyed the rest of our ride home in peace.

This particular evening, Blake was having serious issues with eating his dinner. By the looks of this, you'd think we were torturing the poor kid.

So far, in our time here, Natalie has had at least 2 good friends move away. This was our last get-together with her buddy Carson and my friend Hayley before they left for Utah. It was sad to see them go, but hopefully we will get to see them every time we visit there.