New Furniture

Our couches that we bought when we moved into our house were getting pretty thrashed. We have been casually looking around for a while, but nothing too serious. We finally decided to look on ksl.com (local classifieds) and found some really good deals. We found a leather couch and loveseat right here in Lehi that we decided to buy. They are maroon. We moved our other couches to the basement. The only furniture we have had down there up to this point was the Foof Chair (a giant bean-bag type chiar.) Here are some pictures of the new furniture. You are all welcome to come visit us so you can see them in person.

Couch

Loveseat

Funny Pictures

We have taken a couple of funny pictures of the kids recently and thought we would share them with you. Not much more to this post than that.

I made cookies one night. Joseph wanted to lick the mixer blade. This is a picture of him licking it with his mouth wide open.

After he got done with the blade he still wanted more cookie dough (takes after his dad.) I gave him a scoop. He stuffed the whole thing in his mouth (except for the stuff left on his hands.) This picture is the result.

Mark found a little pair of kid sunglasses that he put on. They were pretty funny, but the smile makes the picture.

Ryan fell asleep in our bed one night with the big dinosaur that he got for his birthday.

Ryan's First Time Skiing

While the kids were out of school and I was off of work for Christmas, Mark wanted to go skiing. Ryan had fun sledding just after Christmas and was pretty excited at the prospect of going skiing. Mark invited a friend to ski with him and the four of us headed up to Alta Ski Resort. (Alta lets you ski for free after three o'clock on some of the easier runs. After renting skis, Mark and Michael (his friend) headed for the lifts and Ryan and I headed for the rope tows. (Editorial note: I'm not sure why they have rope tows for the beginners since they are harder to use than chair lifts.) Ryan and I worked on putting our skis on and then started skiing. At first I was trying to give him some confidence by holding him up, but quickly realized that he was relying on me too much (leaning on me rather than trusting his equipment.) I decided to turn him loose and see how he did. To my surprise he was able to ski very well on his own. He wasn't very good at stopping, but as far as the skiing went he was great! This picture was of him after one of the few times he fell. Most of the times he fell it was because I was stepping on his skiis. Notice the large ski goggles he has on. They are Mark's, but Ryan wanted to wear them. Mark wore mine and I wore sunglasses.


Ryan's First Time Skiing from Derek Lindsey on Vimeo.

The video clip is his second run on his own. He was navigating pretty well, but when he came up on a second group of people, he wasn't sure what to do. My audio commentary is pretty funny in the clip as was my filming the nearer he got to the group of people. As always, if you don't see the video on the blog, follow the link to vimeo and watch it there.