What We've Been Doing Lately...

 Zach broke yet another one of our green chairs. 

We're going to run out of chairs if he keeps this up!

 

Also, we have some great visitors staying at our house!

Arthur W. and Genifer L. came to town just to do FTHL surveys with us.

Naturally, we took them to play in the desert for fun the first chance we got.

 

Dallin won't ride in the backpack anymore,

but he'll accept a shoulder ride.

 

 One morning, Ian found a ground snake in our front yard!

It was very beautiful.

On the 12th, our friend Jesse M. (USU alumni) and colleagues stopped by on their way to collect rattlesnakes in the Tinajas Altas. We haven't seen Jesse for years--he remembered Megan as a toddler. They joined us for a float trip down the Colorado River with Arthur and the Horrocks family, but we couldn't take photos since we don't have a waterproof camera, so you'll all just have to imagine what we looked like.

Before the float trip, they showed us some rattlesnakes they already had in their cooler.

 

They tubed the snakes, and we could touch them and admire their rattles.

 Kiki likes her perch.

Megan earned this cake as a trade for making a photo op for the Horrock's family reunion. They were planning a western theme, so she drew a cowboy with a cut-out hole in the head for the children to put their faces into for photos. Luckily for us, Megan shared some of the cake.

Erin got stung by a bee when she was out swimming. 

Usually she doesn't have much of a reaction, but this time it swelled up for a day.

Happy Father's Day to our favorite father!!!
We celebrated with his usual applesauce cake.

Our Crazy Kitten

Kiki got spayed a couple weeks ago. The post-op instructions were to "limit activity" for 10 days. How does one limit a kitten's activity short of confining her in a cat carrier (for 10 days, yeah right)? She was running and jumping again within a couple of days. Fortunately, she appears to have healed just fine.

She likes this chair as it is one area that Comet has not claimed as his territory.

They still aren't best of friends yet.

This is Kiki's new scratching post/cat condo made by Kevin and Ian. They were actually supposed to be making a chicken tractor, but got a bit distracted. Kevin admits he was having fun using the compressed air nail gun that a friend loaned us for making the chicken tractor.

Welcome to March!

Neighbor Wedding

Zach's older brother got married this week in the San Diego Temple. The reception was held outside in the Price's back yard, which is possible to do in March if you live in Yuma. 

Zach greeted guests as they arrived.

The Happy Couple:

Ryan and Michal

They fed us dinner! We sat with our friends, the Horrocks family, who are fellow USU Alumni.

Humanitarian Aid Projects

This time our ward focused on making preemie baby quilts and baby bibs to donate. The quilts are very small, measuring only 18" X 18". April and Megan made 8 of them using scraps of fabric from our fabric stash.

 Dallin's New Hobby

Kiki is a very patient kitty. Dallin's new favorite activity is to carry her around the house like this.

 

End of February

Enjoy these random photos to end off the month of February. And please notice that we've been able to maintain our goal of keeping the family blog updated this year for our 5 remaining readers (at least for 2 months!).

Our attempt to copy Panda Express' food: 

homemade chow mein, orange chicken, and fried rice for Sunday dinner

Did we ever announce that the new cat finally got a name?

It's Kiki, and she is still very cute and very playful. 

 

Sadly, orange season is coming to an end. We've been drinking freshly-squeezed orange juice daily for the past month. The trees are starting to flower already, so we've got to get the few remaining oranges picked soon.

Megan is entering the Junior Duck Stamp Contest again this year. She chose to paint Cinnamon Teal and took her own reference photos this time. This is her work in progress.