Albuquerque

We had planned on going to the temple this past weekend.  With the water crisis school was cancelled, so we left Thursday afternoon instead of late Friday morning.  As soon as we arrived at my mom and dad's house David was on the trampoline.  For 1 1/2 days David lived on that trampoline.  He was so sad every time we had to take him off for things like eating, sleeping, bathing, etc.  

We were able to get some really great pictures of Dustin sleeping and my dad "sleeping".

Friday during the day David helped his uncle Brian to shovel and haul some sand from the front yard to the back.  David's favorite part was riding in the wheel barrel.  

After a busy day with sand and the trampoline Friday night my mom decided she would give David a bath.  The tub kept getting more and more full of water.  I told my mom that she should turn it off, because the more water, the bigger the splash.  Well....when we arrived home from shopping we had pictures of my mom's "bath".  David had gotten my mom really good with his splashing.

Royal Gorge Easter

Mr. GQ

The Royal Gorge Bridge, Canyon City, Colorado

 

It's a long, long, long way down!

(1053 feet,  the World's tallest suspension bridge)

 

Water & Food Storage

I am so glad that we have been encouraged to obtain and keep a food storage of all things that may be necessary....Water!

Alamosa is currently under orders to use bottled water only.  We have a Salmonella outbreak that is in our water system.  Yay!  I am glad that we had water in storage, however I know that we have nowhere near enough to last us the next week and half or so that it needs to.  Right now, while I can I am getting as much water as I can through the tap and boiling it.  I can only do this for a couple of days before the tap water is no longer good to use (while they are flushing out the system which will take one week).  I have been told that (since all the water in the stores is gone) water will be handed out around the city.  I am assuming that the campus will be a water pick location.  

We have bottled water to drink during the one week, I'm pretty sure it is enough.  I just have to get enough water so that we can brush teeth, cook, wash dishes, wash hands, etc.  I think that we will be buying some disposable serviceware so that we can save the water for things that we really need water for.

Oh, how grateful I am that we have prophets that can tell us what we need to do to prepare for times of famine, emergency, need, etc.  I am grateful to have a Heavenly Father that loves us enough to give us guidance to help us prepare for those times in need.  

Oh, how I think of the scripture in D&C 38: 30

"...but if ye are prepared ye shall not fear."

This is definitely one way for us to figure out exactly how much water we need to store for just such emergencies.  I also believe that Heavenly Father will bless us because we have done what we can to store what we can.  

Dance!

This is what we have been trying to put to bed every night....

 No wonder he's been having a hard time.  He has been so full of energy he just wanted ready to sleep and rest for the night.

Travels

Here are some pictures from a visit by Grandma & Grandpa Hinton and our trip to northern Colorado to see friends.  We didn't take many pictures, but the one's we got are pretty funny!

David dressed Grandpa when he arrived.  Aren't the glasses just fetching?!?

Half way through the trip Dustin & I had a good laugh about the items I was toting around in my purse.  By the end of the trip there were also DVDs, a garbage disposal booklet, more lotion, and other random papers.  It amazes me the things moms carry around on a daily basis.... ready for anything!

Again?

David has the same routine every night before going to bed.

1. family scripture 

2. family prayer

3. brush teeth

4. go potty

5. Dustin's reads him stories

6. go potty again

7. climb into bed and sleep or scream about getting up

Last night David was being a little rowdy.  At steps 3 & 4 he tried to escape into the living room to play with some toys on his table.  I told David that he had this one chance to go potty or he was just going to go straight to bed.  Well he finished the rest of his routine except after Dustin's stories David asked to go potty.  Dustin told him he had already gone.  David looks up at Dustin and says, "Again?".  So we let him go potty, he took and book and sat there for a good couple minutes and then was ready for bed.

We thought it was just too cute that he asked to go "again".