Good Morning "Deer"

We had all just finished eating breakfast on the morning of the 14th, and I was just about to head to work when we noticed these two deer in our backyard. They hopped up the block wall to the neighbor's yard as I grabbed the camera. Brevin and Spencer had fun watching them out the window for about 20 minutes (especially when they had to relieve themselves on the lawn) until the deer strolled away looking for more food. I'm not sure if it was the same day, but shortly after we heard that a member of our ward had spotted a cougar in the neighborhood, probably trying to track down these deer or the many others that have been hanging out in the area all winter. Kinda scary to think that Cosmo's cousin has been roaming in a neighborhood with a ton of kids.

Latest Update

We haven't posted anything for quite some time so here we go.We are expecting boy #3 in May. Amber is seriously outnumbered now. This pregnancy seems to be flying by quicker than ever - perhaps because we've been so busy.

We celebrated Amber's 30th B-day in January. Brevin and Spencer were set on having a themed party, which ended up being "Hello Kitty." We went to dinner at Ottavio's, an Italian restaurant in Provo.


This month we celebrated Valentine's Day with our yearly tradition of pink, heart shaped pancakes for breakfast, and heart shaped pizzas for dinner courtesy of 5 buck pizza. Brevin and Spencer gave out heart shaped rice crispy treats as their valentine's to friends and family.

Santa's lap!

The boys got to see Santa at the mall and man were they beaming. Brevin was speechless as he sat there just smiling at him. He did manage to tell Santa that he wanted a Ben 10 alien watch (the Omnitrix) and Spencer asked for a Spiderman gameboy. Santa told them to leave him lots of cookies because Dad ate some last year. What can I say, I've got a sweet tooth.

Happy Halloween!

Hard to believe another Halloween has come and gone. This year the boys wanted to both be Spiderman, so Amber and I just had to worry about ourselves. Amber was an '80s Homecoming Queen and I was God's gift to women (the tag says "To: Women From: God"). Amber found the idea on the internet.

We took the boys to my work to trick or treat around the office. The only way to go. They get more candy doing that than going around the neighborhood. At the costume contest they gave away the blow up decorations and Brevin got called up on stage to receive the goblin treasure chest. This is the second blow up he's won at my work.

That night Amber and I took turns manning the door and taking the boys around the neighborhood. They were tired after an hour of walking around which was fine by me. It was a fun Halloween and as I type this realize that Thanksgiving is next week!

Deer Hunt 2007

So much for keeping this blog updated. I haven't posted anything for a year. Oh well, no one reads this thing anyway.

We had a pretty exciting Deer Hunt this year. Opening day started out warm and by noon it was snowing. We weren't going to stick around all day in the snow, so we pulled out about 2 pm in about 4 inches of snow. The following week turned out to be nice, and we decided to pull the tent trailer up on Thursday and take the whole family for the weekend. Brevin and Spencer had a blast with their cousins and of course loved the 4 wheeler rides with Grandpa. I tagged a nice 4 x 3 buck on Saturday morning and Brad and I had a heck of a time packing him out. He was big and was probably pushing 200 pounds. Everyone had a great time.

Halloween 2006

Seems like it was just Halloween and Brevin and Spencer were Naploeon and Pedro.

This year, Brevin decided he wanted to be a Pirate, so naturally I had to find pirate patterns to carve the pumpkins. Spencer wasn't too picky and kept going back and forth between Elmo and a clown, and eventually ended up being both. Elmo during the day while he went trick or treating at my office, and a clown at night while trick or treating in the neighborhood. I also found a pattern of Lightning McQueen which is Spencer's favorite, so I carved him a Lightning pumpkin. I ended up being the floor of a movie theatre while Amber was gum stuck under a shoe.

My pirate pumpkins won 3rd place this year, which now marks 5 years in a row that I've placed in the contest. A little extra cash isn't too bad.

Cabin Trip - September 15, 16

Some friends in our ward were kind enough to let the whole Park family recreate at their cabin for a weekend. The last weekend of the summer turned out looking like the last weekend of fall. It started raining Friday afternoon and quickly turned to snow. We woke up to 6-8 inches of snow.


It was still a lot of fun though, with plenty to do inside. Ping pong, pool, fusball, and of course the big screen TV to watch BYU give up a win against Boston College. The kids also had fun taking a 4 wheeler ride in the snow.

Uintas - Washington Lake

We had an awesome time on our 4 day Uinta camping trip. We left on the morning of the 9th and were able to pick out a really nice camp spot. We camped at Washington Lake near the Crystal Lake trailhead. Brevin did a lot of riding his bike while Spencer followed close behind pushing his lawnmower.

That first evening, we tried our luck fishing Crystal Lake and low and behold, Brevin caught the first fish of the night on his new pole. Spencer thought it was pretty cool to touch its eyeball, but wasn't too thrilled when it started flipping around (see the photo album).

The next day (10th) I took off on an early morning hike up the Cliff Lake trail to Cliff Lake, Watson Lake, Petite Lake, Clyde Lake and Booker Lake. I caught a couple of nice ones at Watson, and had some luck at Cliff as well. Later that day we took the boys on the 1 mile trek to Wall Lake and they had a blast wading in the lake and throwing rocks. On the way back to camp, Brevin got to ride some dudes' horse named Cotton for a brief minute. More fishing at Crystal Lake that evening and I banged 'em like crazy.

I fished Crystal again the next morning (11th) and caught about a dozen in 45 minutes. Had the whole lake to myself on a beautiful morning. That day we had a picnic at Bald Mountain, and then just hung out at camp and colored, played with play-dough, and Brev and Spenc played with some kids who were camped in the spot next to us. More fishing at Crystal that evening.

Saturday morning (12th) we did more hanging out and slowly started to pack up. We didn't want to leave after having a ton of fun. We pulled out after lunch and stopped off at the Upper Provo River Falls for a couple of pics.

We'll do it again next year, this time for the whole week.

Photo Album

Art City Days

Art City Days in Springville has come and gone, and we enjoyed a lot of the things that were going on around the city.

Spencer won 2nd place in the Baby contest for the 21-24 month boys and got to have his picture and blurb in the newspaper (Brevin won 3rd place in the same age category 2 years ago).

We also went to the carnival and rode a few of the kiddie rides, and went to the parade on the last day. That night we watched the fireworks from on top of the foot hills above our house.

First Campout of 2006

We finally dusted off the tent trailer and pulled it up Hobble Creek canyon for an overnight campout at Jolley's ranch on May 26, 27. Both Brevin and Spencer were excited to finally get a chance to camp in the trailer after a long sit through the winter.

Brev took his bike and rode it up and down the dirt road while Spence followed behind pushing his lawn mower. We also threw rocks in Hobble Creek and hiked around a bit. We plan to go to the Uintas for a couple nights around the first week of Aug. I'm aching to fish the lakes up there now that they have opened the Mirror Lake highway.

Just a quick update on the basement since I haven't posted in ages. Basically it's all wired, sheet rocked, taped/textured and painted. Doors are on, and we now need to put tile in the bathroom and laundry room, finish the shower, get a toilet and sink/vanity. Then carpet the rest of the basement. Not a whole lot left to do, but not a whole lot of money left either. Bits and pieces at a time I guess.