Christmas in Vernal

 December 2012 we took Teancum on a voyage to meet all of his extended family on my side

 The little one had some awesome bed head and was so much fun to play with and hang out with.

 Scott's lucky that I've got skill! :) I made that hat without a tutorial. I figured it out all by myself!

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 We got to spend the week of Christmas with my family in Vernal, UT :)

 The dogs were in awe with our lizard. Stella (below) would run down the stairs and to our room to check on her little reptilian friend. It was pretty adorable.

 The Felkins came over to party with us New Year's eve.

 and we scared little girls while playing Disney Hedbandz

 We got to firework it up on New Year's Eve at Grandma's

 My angry bird friends :)

 Scott shot a firework at the house and hit me :) It left some marks (above and below)

Scott's been getting pretty dirty at work :) He's pretty much loving it

PreChristmas Christmasing

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For labor day Scott and I made our way to the colonade park again. Within less than 5 minutes Scott tipped over off a log and messed up his knee. He says he thinks he felt his knee cap shift. Yuck. So we didn't do a lot of biking

But we played on this pump track after he hurt his knee.

I even took a whack at it.

Scott makes it look SO easy.

These are vines that are hit by all the dust daily from all the biking. :)

I made these skirts this week for my friends daughter. They turned out super cute and I'm excited to start selling them sometime in the future. I think I'll try making one for me even.

Here's my hubby's knee. Poor guy looks like a real old man these days, hobbling around. It's gotten better but is still tender. This picture was taken the next day.

It's been awhile since you've gotten an updated on our favorite lizard

We've been feeding him blackberries these days.

And we have reason to believe that he likes them.

This is his knee four days after the injury.

He's been feeling the love lately :) Daddy lets him sit on his computer desk while he "checks the internet" (as Scott calls it)

Isn't he adorable? :)

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Yesterday we went hunting blackberries on our road and "driveway"

Our first batch were found right outside of our house! (the above pictures)

Then we found a bunch of patches of blackberries in an abandoned lot at the end of our "driveway" road. We had brought out our little ladder for the tall bushes but I ended up using it more to push the vines down to protect myself from the prickles.

The lot was very big. We kept deciding to stop and then would come upon more loaded bushes.

There were slugs everywhere

how many slugs do you see in this picture?

It was so fun picking berries with Scott. Berry picking reminds him of his home. It's fun for me to experience something that reminds him of his childhood.

The lot was overgrown to the max :)

We got burrs stuck all over us from the overgrown lot. :) It reminded me of my childhood, working with my grandpa, dad, and brothers at the Tree Farm. I would always get burrs in my shoes and would have to stop to remove them, it drove the boys nuts! No wonder they hated when I came to "work" with them.

I was able to make a bunch of jam from our collection and still had around 4 cups of berries left afterward. We now have blackberry jam as well as blackberry/blueberry jam and we also have the blueberry jam I made awhile back :) Yay for Washington berry-ness of life!