Trip to Utah

Sometime in January we visited Utah. We came to do some house hunting, but couldn’t resist stopping at Grandma Susie’s house where we saw our little cousins Briggadie-Brig and Calvin-the-amazing. Aaron also squeezed a snowboarding trip in and we hang out at Grandpa Joe’s for a little while. And of course on the way out of town we stopped at Alia’s and made them late for church. The trip was very productive even though we didn’t buy any houses.

still x-mas

Grandma Susie was brave enough to come and see us in Pinetop and we had a great time. She drove to Kingman with us and did the "Grandma duty" of making cookies with the kids. Thanks Grandma, we sure love you.

We also went sledding, to Sophia’s dismay. Max was the daredevil in the family and took on a steep and bumpy hill where he caught some impressive air.

Our VERY white Christmas

Guess what? It snows in Arizona! We spent our Christmas in Pinetop in a cabin covered with snow! We shoveled every day just to get out of our driveway and I even pushed our vehicles more than once. We were ill equipped for such an ordeal. Especially since I forgot everyone's jackets. Still we loved almost every minute of it: Aaron lost his phone somewhere in the snow, so we’ll be back looking for it this Summer. Enjoy the pix.

Merry X-mas!

Yep, we already seen Santa this year.

Happy Birthday Max!

Max is 4! He was so excited, now he is a BIG boy!


Some dinosaurs crashed his party, so Max and his guests fought them off with the paintball guns.

This was Max's first shot. Take that Tyrannosaurus Rex!


While the hunting party celebrated those sneaky dinosaurs laid some eggs, so we just had to make sure all the eggs were destroyed. We made delicious Dino omelets!

Happy Birthday Max!

Viva Las Vegas!

We did it! We ditched the kids and went to Vegas for a night of debauchery and entertainment!
We had some very good steak and then went to a ridiculously expensive show, the Blue Man Group. We had a great time especially after the drunk lady sitting next to us got up and left. Any band with 3 drummers totally rocks! After the show we went gambling or more like watching others gamble. Nothing like strolling a casino floor called the "pleasure pit" with your pregnant wife in tow. We stood and watched the pole dancers together, I'm not sure who made who more uncomfortable. We sacrificed 10 bucks to the one arm bandit and of course Aaron lost and Galima won, overall we were up 9 bucks!!! Take that evil corporate casino. We saw a hooker get arrested and some drunk people joining in a inebriated dance. We did not go to bed until 4am!! (which is a heroic venture for me!) We had an awesome time but decided that we are done with Vegas for a while!