(Dan standing on top of his igloo in East City Park)The year started our FREEZING cold and our entire region was declared a national disaster zone because we had so much snow. One day in late January we had so much snow that both of our offices were closed for a snow day! So, naturally, we went to the city park to build a giant igloo. This is one of Dan's favorite winter activities. It took us an entire day, but when it was done it was tall enough for Dan to stand up in, and strong enough for Dan to stand on. Before we were even done building it dozens of people were coming through the park taking photos and asking to see the inside. We went back a few weeks later and there were paths leading up to the igloo from every direction of the park. It was a lot of fun, and something that the whole community got to enjoy!
(Darci poking her head out the top, right before we finished)In March we took a quick trip to my parents house in Pocatello to see my nephews, and to celebrate Tucker's upcoming second birthday! Seeing our nephews is one of our favorite things to do and we had a really nice trip.
(Darci and Dan with nephew's Tucker and Payton)On the way home we drove through Montana and decided to stop and enjoy a scenic tour of the old prison in Deer Lodge. It was actually a lot of fun, and we took some great candid photos of ourselves acting dorky in/on/around the displays.
(Darci being goofy at the secretarial display)
(Dan, right where he belongs!)In April my parents came to Moscow for a visit - but only because I bribed my mom with tickets to the Elton John concert!!! My parents were here for the entire weekend and we spent a lot of time playing with our new Wii having bowling tournaments.
(Wii bowling with my parents)The concert was very exciting for both of us. Me, because I love to see a good concert, and my Mom because she grew up with Elton and looooves him. We had so much fun at the concert - I thought I could never see anything more entertaining than my Mom screaming like crazy when Elton came on stage. That was before she jumped out of her seat and started screaming like a twelve year old girl at a Hannah Montana concert when Elton started to play Crocodile Rock. She actually pulled me into the aisle so that we could dance like crazy women. It was awesome.
(Mom and Darci showing off their tickets)
(Mom, dancing like a crazy lady to Crocodile Rock)
The summer was filled with all kinds of great adventures for us. We kicked off the summer with a short camping trip to Laird Park where we enjoyed lots of hiking, sunshine, and eating.
(Dan at Laird Park)
(Darci at Laird Park)One of the highlights about camping at Laird Park is that it sits right next to Camp Grizzly, which is where Dan spent all of his summers as a kid at Boy Scout Camp. We spent an entire afternoon hiking around the perimeter of the camp and I got to hear all kinds of stories about Dan's experiences at boy scout camp - which led me to believe that our kids should NEVER become boy scouts!
On the fourth of July Dan's friend BJ came to town from Alaska and we ended up going to a great party at his parent's house on Moscow Mountain. They put on a really amazing display of fireworks - the best that I have seen in years!
(Dan and Darci at the Garret house on Moscow Mountain)Even though the party was great, the weekend was actually very frustrating for us. We were supposed to have closed on our new house the day before the long weekend. We had each taken an extra day off of work at the beginning of the following week to give ourselves four days to move into our new house. We had moved out of our apartment a full month prior, so we were living in a temporary place (a friends empty apartment, which had nothing but our mattress and clothes in it). Needless to say, we were VERY excited to get into a house! But alas, the guy who was supposed to fill out our title decided to leave early for the weekend and simply didn't do our paperwork, leaving us homeless for an extra weekend. It was very frustrating because we were lounging around with nothing to do and wanting very badly to have our house! But lucky for us we were able to close the following week and move into our beautiful new home. I currently have no pictures on my computer, so I will take some and post them later. We have been here for about seven months now and we love it! Dan has been very useful, doing sweet engineery things like installing radiant heating floors. Or something like that, I don't really know what he is doing when he's pounding around in the basement. But he is happy, and that is all that matters!
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