Tabi and Payton playing.

Few More

I promised some pictures so we took lots of pictures at dinner tonight. Everyone had a great time smiling for the camera especially Payton.

April in Utah

We have had some incredible and beautiful days here in Utah. The high so far has been in the mid 70's. The problem is that we have some fantastic days and then it rains or better it snows and gives us a few inches of snow. The snow always melts off in just a few hours but it gets cold and everyone starts saying things like "I thought it was supposed to be getting warmer. I rode my bike to work on one of those warm days and then it got cold so I stopped and packed on a few more pounds. I have lost 18 pounds so far and am looking for a few more. Lets make this a little family thing. loose a few pounds. Say no to seconds. Get a little exercise. Shannon is working her heart out getting ready for her triathlon next month. She is amazing, she is swimming thirty to forty of the long laps riding 40 miles on the stationary and running for miles. She was really sick last week so had a hard time breathing when she started working out again but is already back on it. She looks great and feels great also. The Kids had spring break this week and we got a lot done. Shannon has been planting her garden and also been loosing plants to the strong wind and snow we had this week. We also planted a bunch of raspberry and blueberry bushes and look forward to having fresh fruit. I look forward to sitting in my window and shooting the birds that are stealing that fruit. I still have my job and it is going well. I am also working on a few other things that i am excited about and that makes Shannon nervous. My truck has been sitting on jacks for two weeks because Ford is very proud of their parts and is trying to make up for their losses just by selling me parts. I will get it fixed this week though. Jonathan is rebuilding a steering gear box for me and hopefully saving me $200.00. He is so handy to have around. I think he is doing what he was born to do, working in a machine shop given free reign to fix things in any way he feels fit. In that way I envy him. My job is so structured that I have no creative freedom. I think that is why I spend so much time dreaming up things like re engineering a "cleans" bench or building my cabin or the best way to make my truck work on WVO. (waste vegetable oil)
Jonathan and kari are delivering phone books on their off time and Alex and Asher are growing every day. Those are two big kids.
Payton is seriously has brought such a light into this home. We all love her so much. One of our favorite things is to take pictures of her and she loves having her picture taken. If she does something cute we try to capture it on film but she immediately stops and looks at the camera. It drives you crazy. How can a 5 month old know what a picture is. She is such a ham. I don't think she ever crys. As soon as she gets a little fussy we give her to her mom and we are done with our part. She is loving solid food. I get told all the time I can't give her things like Jalapenos but we sneak off and eat what ever we want without Nana or her dumb parents telling us no. I have found she has a very particular taste in Sushi.
Collin comes over once in a while but we have not seen him in a while.
I don't have any recent pictures but I will get some and get them posted.

Our own blog!

Peter and I wanted to let evyone know that we made our own blog! We really only did it because I was extremely bored! Anywho, the website is www.plvanderpool.blogspot.com it's nothing special, and we'll still post on this blog! Peter and Lindsay