Merry Christmas!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas. We had a great day; Silas slept in until 8:45; then we opened presents and then made some food and went to our friend Adam's house to have dinner with him and his family. We drove up to Bogus Basin yesterday and went tubing with Adam and his family and Mike and Lindsey, which was a lot of fun. It was a really nice day up on the mountain, but it looked like the ski hill could have used a bit more snow. Anyways, hope anyone who reads this is doing well!

A nice day of fishing.

Hi all, I'm not sure if anyone even looks at this anymore, but Mom and Dad always like to see pictures, so here you go! We went fishing today down on the Boise river just outside of town. It's a really neat area that I always love going to. In the fall it's especially nice because the river isn't flowing as fast and it's close to home. It's a pretty popular place, but you can always find a good spot to cast in. I hadn't taken Silas fishing in a while, so Colleen suggested we all go down today and have some fun. It was a beautiful day here, around 50 degrees and nice and sunny; a perfect day for fishing.

Silas was pretty excited, running all over the place. 

He had been practicing his casting at home for the past few days, and he was doing a pretty good job. 

 I bought these waders a few years ago and never used them until just a couple weeks ago when my friend Adam and I came to this spot.

 Silas got bored with fishing after 15 minutes, so he and Colleen went and walked around for a bit.

 He kept asking if he could walk in the water like I was, and since it was too cold to do it without waders on, I told him I'd carry out a ways.

He wanted to see how cold the water was, so I let him touch it. Then he said I should drop him in. I pretended to and he started screaming.

We were walking back to shore and there were some little fish swimming that I was trying to point out to him.

Craters of the Moon and other musings...

Hey all, 

Last weekend Colleen and Silas and myself drove to Craters of the Moon and met dad for the day. Our friends Mike and Lindsey met us there, too. Silas has been obsessed with caves ever since I let him watch the Planet Earth episode about them. He had been wanting to go to Craters of the Moon for a long time, so we decided we should go before it got too hot. We all had so much fun. We were in one of the caves and Silas says, "Wow dad, this cave is awesome!" It was pretty funny. Went in all the caves that we could, then stopped and had lunch and drove around to a couple other spots and got out and walked. After lunch the wind really picked up and by the time we were ready to go, it was really starting to get intense. 

Things are going pretty good here, I just finished up my summer class, so I have a couple months off before I have to go back towards the end of August. We got a new car, a Subaru Forester, we bought it from our friends Ben and Christy. They have a boy that's just two weeks younger than Silas and they get along really well. It's my car, and I love it. Now we have a rig that's big enough to take us all camping so Silas and I are going to head out in a couple weeks and give it a shot. We'll see how he does. Tim came over a couple weeks ago for memorial weekend and we had a good time. Went fishing for a little bit with Silas, which went pretty much as I expected; but we still had a lot of fun. Silas just adores Tim. 

I only have 3 semesters left in school and then I'll be all done-with my undergrad, at least. I do want to go to grad school but I can't decide what for yet. I still have time to decide though. My (sort of) new job is still going good. I love working days. It's an amazing thing not having to sleep all day anymore. I love waking up early and getting a fresh start to the day. Colleen and I have definitely seen a big change in all of our attitudes since I've started. I go to work early in the morning so then I am able tog et off work around 4 each day. Some days I pick Silas up early from daycare and some days I just come home and start making dinner. I love to cook, and when I was working nights I didn't cook very much cause I was never really that hungry when Colleen and Silas were ready for dinner. 

We got Silas in a new daycare, which is 1000 times better than his other one. He loves it. They play outside every day unless there's lightning. It could be rain or snow and they play outside regardless. Every Friday is water day so they spend most of the day outside playing in the water. Then every wednesday the Magic Tumble Bus comes and they do gymnastics for a couple hours. It's a bus that some people bought and put in pads and a trampoline and they drive around to all the day-cares in the area and do gymnastics lessons. They work on a new skill each week then send home a piece of paper saying what they practiced so we can do it at home as well. It's been a lot of fun. Well, this has turned longer than I expected, and the season finale of Game of Thrones is calling my name. Hope everyone's doing well. Enjoy the photos!

Silas turns 3!

The above pictures are from the birthday party we had for Silas on Saturday. It was a lot of fun. This is going to be pretty quick, I've got to get to bed soon so I can get up bright and early and go to my new job in the morning. Wait, Matt got a new Job?! Why yes, I did get a new job. I started working in the payables department at Simplot on Monday. My last day at the hotel was last Wednesday night and let me tell you, I am so happy to not be working nights anymore. Sorry you'll all lose out on those sweet hotel discounts, but, oh well. My new job is pretty awesome. It's 8-5 monday thru friday, they'll work around my school schedule, and I get pretty awesome benefits, too. Anyways, it's off to bed I go. Enjoy the pics, hope everyone's doing great!