Mountain biking with the family!

One of the main reasons we chose this house in Phoenix, was that it was close to my work, as well as close to the mountain. We are only 1.2 miles from one of the entrances of South Mountain. South Mountain is the largest city park in the US. It's the entire mountain, and you can ride where ever you want! Take that Sierra Club! Any who - I've always wanted to live close enough to a MTB park that I could leave the house and ride on my bike to the park entrance. Now I can so there are no excuses - other than when it is HOT!

Here we are riding in the gully before we get to the dirt.

 

 

Mallory loves her strider!

 

There's my cute wife, being... well cute!

 

Skate Park!

There are tons of places for the kids to do fun things in Phoenix. Skate Parks, Swimming pools, sweating...
Jenny found this skate park and the kids loved it! Connor even tried to take some kids skate board! It starts at a young age...

 

 

 

Where's your Mesiah now clown boy? Here's one in the eye for giving people diabetes!

 

Easter!

We just moved into our new house, and Jenny right away makes some friends from our ward - they have kids our kids age and they invited us to the park for an Easter Egg Hunt. We obliged, and had a ton of fun too!

Run for the Chocolate ones please!

 

Morning Mr. Easter Bunny!

 

The Girls get older!

Megan and Mallory's birthdays are only 10 days apart give or take a leap year... So for as long as we can hold out, we are celebrating them together... I know we are cheap parents, but you can blame Jenny for that... Any who, enjoy the photos - and yes, Megan dressed herself for her party saying "it's my Party I can be a slob if I want to..."

Here's the happy one tooth missing grin of Mallory! Now she is three!

 

Megan would rather rip open every present at the same time - including Mallory's!

 

Double dose of chocolate for Megan!

 

Happy Birthday to the Girls!

 

La Brea Tar Pits.

Seems that every Saturday we are doing something fun - I guess when I'm out of town for the week, the kids miss their daddy! I love it, I get to do things with them, and hopefully they have fun too. They had 2 exhibits closed, and they were the ones I wanted to see the most - the place where they are digging out bones etc. Any who, it's cool to see the gas bubbles in the tar - Connor loved seeing it too. Crazy to think that this is here, and just outside is the worst traffic in the US...

 

 

We only brought 1, and Mallory was the only one to use it!

 

The kids love their Grammy!

 

So that Dad can watch the big game - the kids got to swim in the spa... Too cold to swim in the big pool!

Monster Jam - Pit row!

The kids love it when we take them to Monster Trucks!

 

 

 

 

Tow Mater!

Megan did the jump splits when we walked by Tow Mater! They all wanted to drive it!

 

 

They can't wait any longer!

 

Free Style!

 

 

 

 

New Years Beach Visit

Kira was down with her kids, and we made a trip to the beach - needless to say it was freezing but the kids must be immune to cold when they are having fun! -

 

 

Anyone want a crabby patty?

 

Mallory chasing the birds.

 

Mallory's Christmas...

 

 

Here we see the beginning of some organizational disorder that hopefully doesn't haunt us for the rest of our lives... She had so much fun making sure every square had a bow!

 

Christmas Eve! And Morning

We always give PJ's!

 

Megan's down first!

 

Here comes the rest!