i'm back.

i seem to have abandoned this blog last year. i'm not sure why. it' wasn't too much work to keep up. but i guess i'm lazy, and the longer i went without updating the more work i thought it would be to catch up with everything...the longer it went untouched.

as a compromise, i'm picking it up again, but don't expect to get caught up on the last 7 months. too much as happened (but nothing major).

i'm picking up from this weekend.

on saturday we had what we call a productive day. we bought our niece her 1st birthday gifts and  went looking for a spare tire (or spare tyre, as they are known here). our spare tire was stolen, oh, about a year and a half ago. we still haven't gotten around to replacing it, yet. they are very expensive new, and such a chore to get second hand. but we tried this weekend, so we get a finger badge*.

*a finger badge is a made up reward system, by me. it's like getting a gold star, except you can actually give and receive it. aaron rolls his eyes and pretends to not like the finger badge system, but i know deep down he loves them as much as me.

to reward our selves for such a fine job, the next morning after a skype convo with my folks, and some amazing breakfast burritos, we headed off to the pinnacles.

what are the pinnacles? good question. i'm going to answer by saying really pretty geologic rock thing. it was also featured in a movie called the lord of the rings.

there. not too bad for the first post in 7 or 8 months, right?