Flooded Roads

These are pictures along Hwy 52 or Sand Hollow Highway. This is the road that I use to take Caleb out to grandma's and grandpa's house in New Plymouth. I came home last night on this Hwy and I probably should have left Reuben's parents house earlier while it was light. All I could see was water on either side of the road. I didn't know there was water on the road and I hit it in the truck going about 50 mph and I just about had a heart attack. I am just glad that I had the truck since it has way more clearance. Anyway, sorry some of these are blurry but it's really hard to take pictures when you are in a moving vehicle. The first picture is the back road into New Plymouth. That road was actually closed down because of the amount of water on the road. There were two spots that had a lot of water on the Hwy. Some parts were about 10 in deep.

Payette River

This is a picture to show you how incredibly high the river is.

Pretty Sunset

So, while we were on the drive taking pictures of the flooded river we saw a really cool sunset. The first two pictures are of the sunset and then the third picture above looked like a beam of light was going across the sky. It looked really cool.

My Immortal - solo piano, Scott D. Davis

Traumatic Day

What a traumatic day. I went into the bathroom to wash Caleb's hands after his dinner and went to shut off the hot water and the whole stupid handle popped off and water was shooting out just like a fire hydrant. I quickly threw everything out from under the sink so that I could turn the water off and of course it wouldn't budge. I through a towel over the shooting water and directed it mostly into the sink but it still was going everywhere. I ran to the neighbors and he wasn't home to help me so I ran back home and the thought came to me to turn the valve off on the water tank. I did that and the water shut off. By that point the whole bathroom was soaked in water. I called Reuben's dad and he came by and it took pliers and bending the valve to shut it completely off. Man, what a day. At least I'm pretty sure that there won't be any permanent damage.

The Birthday Boy!

Caleb is growing up so fast, he turned 3 this year! He is a very smart kid and we are very proud of him. He can count to 20, he knows a lot of colors and his shapes and he recognizes all the letters in the alphabet. One puzzle that he got for his birthday is Noah's Ark and it has an animal for every letter in the alphabet and he knows which letter goes next. Anyway, it is hard to believe that it has been three years since he was born. We love him very much!

Cars Cake

For Caleb's birthday we decided to go with Cars as his theme. I was going to do a Lightning McQueen cake but then decided to do a race track instead. We tried to recreate the last race so I got lightning McQueen, Chick Hicks and the King and had them racing around the track. Reuben had the awesome idea of putting coconut in the frosting to make grass which was really neat. Anyway, Reuben ended up doing the cake and he did a very good job.