Thursday, March 18, 2010

December '09

First of all... should this be Kale's costume for next year???

December was awesome!!! Zack took some much needed time off and we headed up to the Grand Canyon for a few days... I'll include those photos in the next post. Then Matt came to visit for Christmas which was so nice. We were spoiled with family visitors during the holiday season this year (new years we got to see Zack's parents too!) Kale had too much fun playing with Uncle Matt and was really sad to see him go. We had a great Christmas Song Sing Along Party that we have decided to turn into an annual event. I made a bunch of song books and we had guitar, uke and piano going. It was a great night! We also celebrated Matt and my birthday with some yummy homemade ribs (thanks to Zack). Christmas was really fun this year because Kale was actually opening presents this time and knew what he was doing. His fav toys ended up being his train table/set from Grandpa for his birthday/christmas and his play kitchen.

We took Matt up to Picacho too, mostly for the 4 wheel drive through Bear Canyon on the way back, which unfortunately I did not get pics of.

Some pretty trees near Picacho

Matt teaching Kale how to do push-ups

After our Grand Canyon Trip we drove down through Phoenix and visited the Temple, which was all decorated with lights for Christmas. It was amazing!! Kale loooooved looking at all the lights, he could have stayed for hours...




Matt got Kale a Beta for Christmas... his name is Fu :)

Christmas morning

Up at Picacho... we saw some wild donkeys that day!

Picacho Peak

the colorado river

2 comments:

Deborah Athay said...

Do you read Stephenie Meyer? Isn't that the park that her alien treks through in "The Host"? ;)

p.s. are you going to the reunion in August??

Youngbergs said...

Glad to see that you are back blogging! It was great to see you and Kale when you were here. Soon we will both be in the desert away from home. :)