lake Powell

We once again made the 990 mile adventure to Lake Powell, which is in southern Utah. We had a blast!! The week is all about swimming, boat, and bonding with the family. This is a Frye Family (Alix's family) tradition.

Enjoy the pictures and movies. They are in a funky order- but you will get the idea.

This is the definace house which we walked up to. Its a old native american home. We told noah we were going to an indian house and when we got there he asked where is the indian home and we said this is it. He was not impressed.

inside the house boat

John and Noah on the boat. Noah was not a big fan of the boat at first and would always complain that it was too bumpy or that we were going to fast. He would say " slow it down" then my siblings thought it would be funny to have him say "slow it down for all you lovers out there". He liked it at the end and would help drive even.

This was just a pretty picture. The colors didn't turn out quite right. The sky was so blue it almost looked purple. Just the family swimming. We did a lot of swimming, it was HOT!!
Baby Preston in his boat coat and ready to go swimming.

Sarah and Grandpa Kevin on the wave runners. LOVE the hat dad!!
Noah's fish that he caught. He was very excited and not scared at all. He wanted to go swimming with the fishes.

The house boat had a slide. Noah loved the slide.
What a bunch of studs.


Noah is helping grandpa Kevin drive the big house boat.
It was 112* one day and we spent the entire day in the water, Preston included. His uncle John was playing with him.

Fish On!!! Thats what you say when you catch a fish. Noah was so excited to go fishing. He even caught a "kitty" cat fish.

That is the view from our boat.
At this is our boat. Summer Haven
Some video's.

Washing DC

Fathers and Sons

It is a tradition to go on Father's and Son's and Kevin got to take Noah this year. They went with Alix's family because Kevin was going to be gone the weekend of our ward's. The boys had a blast. Noah loved sleeping in a tent and using the outside restroom. Oh the joys of a two year old boy!!No Preston didn't get to go to fathers and Son's this year but i thought it was a cute picture of two studly boys

What a good group.

At the Lagoon

Alix and Noah went off to the Lagoon one day and decided I should come as well some evening, so last week we went. It was crazy. We got out of the car and about 200 ducks and geese came over. I have never seen so many and not scared at all. I mean right in your face trying to get food. I tried to throw some food so they would go after it, but they just waited for me to give it right to them. Eventually, we had to escape and they chased us. In the process of throwing them bread as they chased us, I chucked my phone, so I had to go in the middle of them and get it. We finally got far enough away that Noah could play on the truck they have, but he wanted to feed them, so the second we fed one, about 20 came over, but at least the whole group didnt as they couldnt see us. Noah had fun and they are very aggressive, so it was good he could be in the back of the truck as they will fight to get the food. Even the little birds showed up, it was crazy. There are well over a thousand geese and ducks and if you go any where near them with food, they will attack you for it! It was fun though and Noah liked it although he does get scared when they charge him. Here are a couple of videos as well on you tube.

Noah Jumping

Feeding the Geese

Preston Swimming, well Kinda!

For Family Night, we were invited to go swimming with friends. It had been very hot for a few days, but of course it cooled down to like 95 on Monday. By the time we got there that evening, it was down to like 70 because of the shade, but the pool was very warm so Noah and I had a blast. Preston of course decided sleeping was more fun then getting in the pool with his brother and dad, kind of like his mom. She just decided to chat with all her friends and never got in even though it was warmer in the pool then out on the chairs. So, Noah and I jumped off the diving board over and over again. I drenched all the kids with large splashes which unfortunately they enjoyed and wanted me to continually do it again. I guess my fat body comes in good for something!

The photos are of a toy Preston got so he can lay down and do something. As you can see Noah likes to help! The other pictures are of Preston ready to go swimming with a hat. I believe someone gave us the swim outfit, so Alix made sure to get it all on. He always smiles now, but I never had the camera, so for most of you this would be the first time to see him smile. He is a happy baby although he does like to be held quite a bit. Sometimes he wont care for hours and then sometimes he wont sleep and just wants to be held all day long, so thats life. As I take more pics of him smiling I will get him on. If we can get a video of him laughing as he does that as well, I'll put it on for you!

Life

As now life as settled down a little bit I (Alix) thought I would post a few pictures of what we have been up to. Kevin and Noah went to Father's and Son's camp out and had a blast. Noah thought that camping was a blast. When he woke up he said "did we have a sleep over". He has been asking to go on more camp-outs. Besides running around, Noah spends time with his trains. He has also picked up the joy of reading. I am so proud of my little boy . Enjoy!! 

Dont forget to watch Noah reading

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0_fgsQfSRc

Easter

I did this post about 2 weeks ago now and just realized I forgot to post it. I am amazingly smart!!! So, I am reposting it for people to see and we will try to add some pics and vids of when my mom and dad were here a week ago. Although, my dads computer broke, so we are waiting to get some pics from them, but for the meantime, I will try to do a new post with some of those pics.

We went to the Wagner's, long time friends of Alix's family for the easter egg hunt Friday morning. They moved it as it is spring break here. Lots of kids got to run around and find eggs. Noah had a lot of fun and he even had both Grandma's there to share it with. Preston had his first Easter, but he didnt do too much!!!

Noah also got a kite that is a P-51. It needs about 15 mph to fly so as you can see in the video it didnt want to fly, but Noah made us try either way on two separate days. It will be a cool kite once we get enough wind to fly it. Noah had a lot of fun and liked to run with the string as far away as possible which made it really hard to not get tangled while running to get the kite in the air!

Here are the links to two Videos:

Flying the Kite

Easter 2009

Preston Update

Well, I thought I would add some video links and photos for everyone to take a look at. Now, these are about a week old, all from last Saturday, but I figured everyone would be glad to see something. We will get some new stuff this weekend to add on as well.

Preston has been to the park a few times with Mom and Noah. They have been running lots of errands and things. He is still doing about the same, no real changes. He is sleeping about one setting through the night, normally from 10-2 or if Alix is lucky 4! He sleeps a lot during the day, but he is just enjoying life.

Noah is wanting attention and Alix is being Super Mom forfeiting sleeping to accommodate for Noah. Noah does love Preston and is very protective. He always wants to help and stop him from crying and always shares, so you cant ask for much more then that.

Besides that, things are going well. I try to help all that I can, but its hard working and helping. We are just plugging along and trying to change our lives to raising two kids, which isnt too bad!!!

Here are the links to the videos on You Tube:

Preston Outside

Preston and Noah

Noah and Dad Playing