Monday, March 10, 2008

Panama, try again

These pictures are in order from bottom to top so go to the bottom pictures first. This is the outhouse they had. I guess I will send all of these now and maybe do another post later. Hope you all enjoy them.

This is the humble home where we stayed in the jungle. The closest hut is where thy cook and eat the second one is where they sleep.

This is the local market in the Indian settlement. Our guide (center) bought some rolls there.


At times they had to push the canoe over the rocks because the river was low. Dad got out and helped push because he had sandals and Jed helped push with a bamboo pole from in the boat cause he just had his hiking boots.

Dad and I are in our canoe for the 12.5 mile trip up the river in the jungle. It was really luch and beautiful.

I don't know how to turn this picture but it is Dad at a banana plantation. The blue bags cover the bananas so the insects don't get them. They are on the bananas the whole time they are growing.

This is us with our guid hiking up the river on the same hike as down below. It ws beautiful. Dad is taking the picture. This is the one where we swam through the cave further down river.

This is a picture of a cayman we saw in a small lake on our jungle hike on the island of Bocas del Toro. They weren't in the rivers.


We saw this hippy van in old town Panama city and were surprized to find that it had a Kentucky license plate! The man with us is our taxi driver who took us all over Panama City for the day.

This is the locks again. I don't know if you can tell but the ship has sunk quite a bit from the last picture. It is going through the locks and heading out to the Pacific ocean.



















Saturday, March 8, 2008

Panama!!

This is dad and I at the miraflora locks on the Panama canal in Panama city. To the right of me you can see a large ocean ship that is beginning to go through the locks.

I am really having trouble posting any more pictures so I will have to try again later. Anyway I was going to post another picture of the boat sinking in the locks. I thought they were really interesting.It takes ships at least 8 hours to go through the canal at an average cost of $2000.00 The cost depends on the size of the vessel. the ships have to reserve their spot to go through the canal 6 months ahead of time and quite often they wait for at least 24 hours to go through. But I guess it is still quicker than going all around the tip of South America!

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Cars and Cuts

Last Sunday (I think) Chantille cut me some bangs. This is what I look like with bangs.Erik thinks that I look about 4 years younger when I don't have my glasses on with the new bangs. I don't know about that...you decide. This pictures look weird because I took them myself. I was too impatient to wait for Erik to come home from school.
This, Devon, is our new car. Luckily, from the picture you can't tell how dirty it is. We really like it.
This is what you call a performance muffler! That is right Erik and I are sporty and we drag race down University Ave. You might even call us hellions!
Ok....maybe not, but we still have a performance muffler!

MOM- Where are the pictures of Panama????

Thursday, February 21, 2008

President's Day Sledding

Chantille and Jaren invited us over Monday for some sledding on the Point of the Mountain.Coral is really excited to go sledding.
"Look out mommy."
Too late, Chantille decides to try sledding without a sled.

Carson tries his hand out sledding.
Chantille and Jaren climbing back up the hill. It was quite the sledding hill.
I was there too.
Erik racing down the mud into the snow.
Jaren takes Coral down the mountain, because according to Coral, "he is a better driver."Sledding wore Coral out! Thanks for the fun day, Chantille and Jaren!

Monday, February 18, 2008

Devon's photos






























They drew the ties on these shirts and then I guess they played a soccer game in them in the mud.
Devon sent some picture this past week so I thought I would try and post some for all to see. He didn't send any explanation so we all have to guess.

It sounds like he is really having fun on his mission. Devon if you want to offer any explanations for thes photos we would love to hear them.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Early Valentines Day

Yesterday Erik took me to SLC to celebrate Valentine's Day. We celebrated early, because Erik's grandparents are going to hang out with us next weekend. We went to the temple, then ate at the Lion House. So delicious! Erik even bought me an orchid, even though the last orchid he bought me I killed. So i guess he is giving me a second chance. I forgot the camera so just picture the SLC Temple and Erik and I looking happy!
Here are the orchids that I killed Last May. I have replacements now, so hopefully I will do better!
I hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

My kids!

It's been awhile since I've posted any on our Gibby blog- So, here are Coral and Carson before church... Since church starts at 2:30, we have quite a while to get ready. This is her first day of Sunbeams- She loves it!
This is one of Carson's first attempts at Rice Cereal. We realized we took a ton of pictures of Corals rice cereal eatings, but none of his- so here he is! He always makes a funny face right when we first start giving him the cereal, but right after, he starts gobbling it up.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Snowshoeing Continued

A lovely couple in the balmy 8 degrees up in the mountains!
So pretty.
Look out for that tree Erik!

More Snowshoeing

Erik decided to go trail blazing while snowshoeing Monday. Here he is going off on his own.
Here is what happened! Just a little slip down the mountain!

Snowshowing

Here is dad, mom and Erik snowshoeing up at Pomerell. It was so much fun. My computer is being dumb, so I will have to post the rest of the pictures on a different posts. Oh well.

Talia's Basketball Game

This weekend we went to Burley and we got to see Talia's basketball game. Mom was the coach and dad liked to teach the girls how to swing their elbows. Here is Talia running down the court.
Talia has the ball in this photo, but it suddenly is invisible!
Mom coaching the girls on how to win, but they didn't. It was a close game and a tough team!

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Wii loved Christmas

Here are some Christmas photos that did make it on to Chant's or Sarah's blog. Mom was victorious! Erik loves trains
Coral LOVES Island Barbie
Sarah trying to dodge Nate's uppercut.
Chantille wasting no time at the opportunity to punch Hyrum.
Jaren's new favorite socks
Coral loves her new sleeping arrangements.
Coral and Abbigail decided to fight over their differences!
Hyrum and Chelsea battling it out! And Chels is looking fierce!
Jaren thanks for buying the wii and not selling it!!