Ocean Fun...no, we didn't go to the beach

Yesterday we went to the Albuquerque Aquarium. It was a lot of fun, we have also been to the Seattle Aquarium and I liked this one just as much. We bought a family pass so Keegan and I can go back when Josh is working. Yay!! When we got there it was feeding time. We got to see a lady in and open tank feeding some smaller rays, and then when we got to the big tank it was feeding time in there too. So much fun to watch.

The puffer fish was HUGE, I would say he was as long as Keegan is tall. And he always swam with his mouth open, kinda strange

Here is Keegan in front of the 1st big tank.

They have a model ship room, and then this big Captains Wheel. Keegs can't even see where he is taking us.

A sea turtle, all I could think about was... "Dude and then I was like Dude".... from Finding Nemo

A portal into the big tank




When I wanted him to look into the tank so that I could get a pic from the back he kept turning around and saying "Cheese"


The big tank at the end had the Biggest rays in it. This one was over 6 feet long (just a guess) but he was huge




Ahoy Matey!!

Here he is again, such a big ray. Keegan says that they are flying in the water. The guy in there was feeding the rays. It was a lot of fun to watch!! There are also sharks in there, I am not sure I would be in there during feeding time.

They have some smaller tanks as well, this one had a few Sea Horses. There were even little baby ones in there too.

Ooops Back to feeding time.

Well, there it is. Sorry they seem out of order, some of them are, and some are because Keegan kept running back and forth from tank to tank we saw it all more than once.

I think one of my favorite parts was the Jelly fish tank. They are so calm, they just bob along, so relaxing to watch.

Keegan says that his favorite part was the "fishy tunnel" it has a walkway where you are going through the tank in a tunnel.

Josh isn't sure that he had a favorite part. He is either really indifferent or he liked it all. I think he liked it all.

We can't wait to take Uncle Jon and Aunt Jace in a couple of weeks!!

Fun at the park!!

We have found quite a few nice parks and playgrounds. The weather here has been great, warm in the day and perfect in the afternoon/evening. The other night Josh didn't have to work so we all went to the park and had a really good time. Keegan discovered that he likes playing follow the leader, especially if he is the leader and daddy follows him all over the playground.

Keegan riding a dinosaur

Josh and his new ride

Keegan taking it for a test drive

Follow the leader

A view of the city from the top of the playground

So far everything here has been a lot of fun. We can't wait for our visitors at the end of the month!!

Yummy!!!

MMmmmmm

Clay by Kim

Hey everyone, I was hoping you could all take a look at my sister-in-laws blog and etsy.com store. Some of you already know about the super cute stuff she makes, but if you don't go and check it out. Her stuff makes the cutest gifts!! So cute that you end up wanting to keep it for yourself. She also has a booth at the Downtown farmers market every weekend in the summer.
http://www.claybykim.blogspot.com/ she has a link to her etsy.com store on there or here is the link for that http://www.claybykim.etsy.com/

Thanks

Fun in "Alba Turkey"

So far things in Albuquerque have been great. We have a brand new park right by our house, Keegan loves it. He now thinks he is just like the big boys. He can now climb up the slide like he has seen others do so many times.

On Monday we went to the Rio Grande Zoo. I is such a nice zoo. They have a lot of animals all in nice enclosures. This is Keegs sitting with a sculputre of a Mexican Wolf aka.. a Lobo.


They have the zoo divided to corrispond with the regions of the world that the animals came from. This was a throne in the African region.


Me and Keegan together.


This is what I was most excited for. Moe the hippo. The last time we went to the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake we discovered that our hippo Moe, had been moved to another zoo, the Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque. He is now happily married and has a baby. His enclosure at the zoo in SLC always made me sad, you all know it, cement walls and that is about it. Here he has a nice pond and it is outside so he can get some sun too. This isn't the greatest picture but I promise the grey blob in the water is him. His lovely wife and baby are in the picture too.


Keegs riding the Kimodo Dragon sculpture, this was a hard picture to get, he kept sliding off.

This zoo has 2 gorgeous tigers. They were hanging out for everyone to see this guy was just watching the activity while the other was in and out of the pond. I love tigers.

So pretty!!

Keegan and Dad in front of the dino mural in the reptile house.

Just Stuff

Here is just some stuff that didn't fit on the last post. On our first night here we had pizza for dinner. We followed the GPS to the Cottonwood Mall, next to the mall was a yummy pizza place. Almost everything here in the state of the chilies has chilies on it. We had a pizza with green chilies on it. Not what I would have asked for but it was yummy.

Mr. Blue eyes eating black beans at Cafe Rio, our favorite.

Riding his bike on the walkway at "Pa's" house with his helmet from the Midvale FD

On our drive to find Josh's hospital we gave Keegs some skittles to keep him happy and I turned around to find him sleeping with his hand still in the package.

Hunting for easter eggs at the Viehweg's house. He really got into it this year and had a lot of fun.

Josh has his 1st night at work tonight, hope it goes well. He also works the next 2 days as well, so Keegan and I will be off to find the Library, and a nice park to play at to keep us busy. We still haven't tried out the pool here, maybe that will be on our to do list as well.

Albuquerque

Welcome to Albuquerque

This is what we wake up to. There were 10 this morning.

Keegans room, looks familar, don't you think.

We went to Old Town today. There is a large fountain Keegan wanted to keep throwing rocks in, sounds like him right.

Route 66 runs through the middle of the city.

On our way down here we passed Wilson arch. Keegan keeps saying that there was a hole in the mountain.

One of the shops we went in today, in Old Town, had HUGE foam cowboy hats. Keegan wanted to buy this one.


So far Albuquerque has been nice. The weather is so much different than Spokane, we don't know what to do with all of this sun. More to come, we found the zoo, aquarium, and botanical gardens today. So much to do... pictures to come.

Crazy Drivers!!!

This is just a complaint post so I thought I should confine it to itself. On our way down to Albuquerque, I noticed before we were even out of UT that Colorado Drivers were NUTS!! It didn't matter that I was doing at least 5 over the speed limit I would get passed, I would look and sure enough it was some crazy Colorado driver. Okay, now I feel better.

Just because Jacey said to

100 Truths

1. Last beverage→ Diet Coke with Lime
2. Last phone call→Mom
3. Last text message→ Tyler
4. Last song you listened to→Whatever was on in the car, i don't remember
5. Last time you cried→ last night
6. Last meal→IHOP breakfast

HAVE YOU EVER
7. Dated someone twice → I guess you could say yes (on again-off again)
8. Kissed someone & regretted it? → no
9. Lost someone special?→ Yes
10. Been depressed?→ not really, bummed yes
11. Been drunk? – yes, oops

LIST THREE FAVORITE COLORS:
12. blue
13. green
14. purple

THIS YEAR HAVE YOU:
15. Have you made new friends this year → sure
16. Done anything you regret→ unfortunately yes
17. Laughed until you cried → yes
18. Met someone who changed you→ sure
19. Found out who your true friends were→I have great friends, I already knew that.
20. Found out someone was talking about you→ recently no, and I don't really care.
21. Kissed anyone on your friend's list→ Other than my husband...oops, yes but a LONG time ago, I am a married woman.
22. Tried something new→I am sure I have but can't think of it right now.

TRUTH:
23. How many kids do you want to have→ 2 both boys
24. Do you have any pets →Dog, Koda
25. Do you want to change your name→ I have considered it, why my parents would name me one thing and then never call me that is rediculous
26. Rich man whose cruel or poor man whose sweet → poor man
27. What time did you wake up today → The 1st time was 7:14, rolled over and woke up again at about 8:20
28. What were you doing at midnight last night -- reading
29. Name something you CANNOT wait for→ To get to Albuquerque
30. Last time you saw your father→ tough question, alive?? 4/9/09
31. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life → Nothing major right now, just stupid little things like... maybe it would be nice for my face to not break out so much!! I am nearly 30 for pete's sake!!!
32. What are you listening to right now→ the hum of the computer and the keys clicking as I type
33. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom → sure
34. What's getting on your nerves right now → right at this exact moment....nothing
35. Guilty pleasure→ reality tv: to many to name
36. What's your real name → Dominique Lisa (Detmers) Viehweg
37. Relationship Status → married
38. Zodiac sign: Cancer
39. Male or female→ Female
40. Elementary→Peruvian Park then East Sandy
41. Middle School →Union
42. High school → Hillcrest
43. Hair color → Brown with some new ones that are lacking pigment and scarily look gray!! Yikes
44. Long or short → medium
45. Height → My DL says 5'5" and I am sticking to that
46. Do you have a crush on someone → sure I still thing my husband is pretty cute
47. What do you like about yourself? →? lots of things
48. Comfort Food→Way to many to list
49. Tattoos → 4
50. Righty or lefty →righty

FIRSTS :
51. First surgery → wisdom teeth if that counts
52. First piercing → Ears
53. First tattoo→ a sun
54. Best friend → I would have to say Mimi
55. First sport you joined – swimming
56. First pet → Tosha and Oddy both dogs
57. First vacation → That I remember?? Camping, always camping
58. First crush →Jason Bailey 1st grade
59. First real love→ n/c
60. First alcohol drink→ don't remember

RIGHT NOW:
61. Eating →nothing
62. Drinking -- still working on that Diet Coke with Lime
63. I'm about to → put more songs onto Josh's i-tunes
64. Listening to → still the compter humming....didin't I answer this one already?
65. Waiting for→ this list to end

YOUR FUTURE :
66. Want kids→ got 1 dang cute one just need another.
67. Want to get married→ I hope so since I already am
68. Careers in mind→ Mom and photographer, Linz you have the best job.

WHICH IS BETTER WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX?
69. Lips or eyes → Eyes
70. Hugs or kisses → can't beat a good hug, but can't live without kisses
71. Shorter or taller → taller
72. Older or Younger → older
73. Romantic or spontaneous → little of both
74. Nice stomach or nice arms → either are good
75. Tattoos or piercings→ tattoos
76. Sensitive or loud → happy medium of both
77. Hook-up or relationship → Relationship
78. Trouble maker or hesitant→ little of both

HAVE YOU EVER :
79. Kissed a stranger → stranger...no
80. Drank hard liquor → yes
81. Lost glasses/contacts → sunglasses
82. Sex on first date → no way
83. Broken someone's heart → unfortunately I think so
84. Had your own heart broken → yes
85. Been arrested? → ha ha -no
86. Turned someone down → yes
87. Cried when someone died → of course
88. Liked a friend? → absolutely

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
89. Yourself → most of the time
90. Miracles →yeah
91. Love at first sight → like/lust at first sight, love takes a little time
92. Heaven → definitely
93. Santa Claus → who doesn't !!?!
94. Kissing on the first date?→ depends- never say never
95. Angels → yes

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:
96. Is there one person you want to be with right now? → yes
97. Had more than one boyfriend/girlfriend at one time? → tried once- doesn't work so well left me with a terrible case of insomnia
98. Do you believe its possible to remain faithful forever?→ Absolutely!
99. What's the one thing you cannot live without?→ Chapstick and nail clippers
100 Truths! After you've filled this out, tag 10 people and have them do the same

I tag whoever is crazy enough to sit and list all of this crap, it took me forever.

Albuquerque here we come!!!

NO waiting for us this time. Sheeesh, we got a call last night from a hospital in Albuquerque and they want Josh to start on Monday. Josh hadn't even heard from his recruiter that his stuff had been sent there. Talk about hurry up and pack. We are probably going to leave on Saturday and depending on how the drive goes could get there that night or sometime on Sunday. Leaving Josh just enough time to go to the store and maybe find his hospital so that he can report to work on Monday.

My Dad

I miss you...

My Dad

April 25, 1942 -April 9, 2009

I don't have much to say right now. I wish this wasn't something that I felt needed to be posted, ever, but I wouldn't feel right not doing it. Thank you everyone who has been there for my family.

Happy Birthday Baby Austin

Well baby Austin is here. 7 lbs 8 oz. and 21 inches long. Boy was my guess way off. He was born this morning after terrorizing his mom for way too long. I have been told that he has a lot of hair and a Butt Chin. Hmmm sounds like someone else we know. I don't have pictures yet (and it is driving me nuts) but will post some as soon as someone sends me some. I hate being far away when fun things like this happen. Jen you are awsome and I can't wait to see him. Congrats you guys I am sure that you make the cutest family.

Chef Keegan

Here is Chef Keegan getting ready to make brownies. He really loves his chef outfit and helping in the kitchen.

Ready to start wisking

Trying to keep it in the bowl

Time to clean up

The aftermath

Luckily the brownies were just for us, anytime his wisk was getting low on batter he would dip it back in the bowl before I could stop him.

Only One Day Later

Only 1 day after I posted my last post saying that I wished that Tyler would come and visit he did. He called the next day and asked if it was going to be alright to come and visit. It was just a quick trip but we tried to see as much of Spokane as we could.

Here is Keegan and Tyler in Riverfront Park.

We have lived here almost 6 months and never saw the falls. We had been to the park before but never went onto the right bridge.



Who knew this was here? It took a visitor to Spokane to tell us that it was there.

Close up. Lots of water!!

8 Things

8 favorite tv shows, i love to watch

1. Jon and Kate plus 8
2. Any Friends Episode
3. Biggest Loser
4. Girls Next Door (horrible I know)
5. Dirty Jobs
6. Little People Big World
7. Grey's Anatomy
8. Any CSI


8 things I did today

1. did not sleep in
2. Went to a Dr. Appointment for Keegs (he is fine by the way)
3. Had the oil changed on the car
4. Went to Subway for lunch
5. Went to the library
6. Tried to take a nap
7. Walked the dog
8. Will cook dinner at some point


8 favorite places to eat

1. Cafe Rio ( oh how I miss you)
2 Tres Hombres
3. China Grill
4. Sushi Garden (only in Tucson)
5. On the Border (none in UT or WA but again in Tucson)
6. Cheesecake Factory
7. Azteca ( in WA)
8. Did I say Cafe Rio????


8 things i'm looking forward to

1. Bed, I really wanted a nap
2. Getting the vacuuming done
3. Spring
4. Jen finally having her baby.
5. Next weeks biggest loser, last night was to be continued..... ( I hate that)
6. Josh's job sending us somewhere new (hopefully Seattle)
7. Sunshine
8. did I say napping???


8 things on my wish list

1. Sunshine
2. A hospital in Seattle to call ASAP. I really want to go there, which would completely shoot down my number 1 in this section.
3. Tyler coming to visit. (ha ha this is never going to happen)
4. More Fabric, you can never have too much
5. Mimi coming to visit ( again, never going to happen, Tyler will visit before she does)
6. Go to Yellowstone in April
7. That I don't have to take the garbage out........hint hint
8. new purse

K Jasmine, I know that this took me over a month to do, but here it is. I tag anyone who wants to do it.