UPDATE

I just thought i would write a shmear about the goings-on in our lives right now. Caleb took a job with the National Park Service, so we moved to Baker, CA a couple weeks ago and he now works on the Mojave National Preserve. The trip down was torture, but its over and we are settling in nicely. The park is great, and very large. Its 1.6 million acres and has many things to see. The weather here is the same almost every day...in the 100s with no clouds in the sky. (except for an occasional random sand/wind storm) In the summer it should get up the 130 or so. I am looking forward to that! Baker (little did we know) has a population of about 300. It is actually more of a pit stop between Las Vegas and L.A. There isn't even a GROCERY STORE! We went to the nearest town with stores and it is more than an hour away and has a small walmart and a couple no-name grocery stores. I think we will end up going to Vegas for our shopping from now on. Its about an hour and a half away. (two hours in our van!) We went to church for the first time (hour away) and it is a branch with about 25 people. 15 of which are too old to sit through 3 hours of meeting, so they only have sacrement and relief society/preisthood! I have never heard of that before. It's nice since we have to drive so far but still weird. Fortunately, by some odd coincidence, the is ONE other young couple in the ward with a boy daxon's age that just happen to live in Baker too! We're saved! anyway, thats all i can think of right now.

Mojave

Our first few days in Baker...While we were cleaning out the neighbor's pool we found a lizard drowning in it. That is how daxon was able to catch it.


Daxon sharing his toys with king Graham.


MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE!
We have only gone to the visitor's center and two of the sites at mojave. There are a LOT left, but here are the pictures we have gotten so far. The park is 1.6 million acres. (the 3rd largest national park in North America)

AWARD WINNING PICS AT MOJAVE...so far.

Grand Prize winner


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3rd Place


Jr. Prize


They had random mounds of rocks lying around.


These weird flowers grow out of the ground without leaves or anything, just a stem and flower.


Lizard kendra almost stepped on.


There were lots of these orange flowers growing everywhere.
Hole-in-the-wall camp ground is one of the places we went. There are a few reasons why it might be called hole-in-the-wall, but ultimately it has to do with one of these holes.





There are two parts on the trail that you have to use climbing rings to get up and down the steep rocks.







We went by a couple different "forests" - one was the Joshua tree forest, one of the densest in the world. (Joshua trees must not grow very close together.)




The other was one that was burnt by a wild fire a while ago. I don't know what kind of tree they are. They looked like stumpy/thick white pines. (A few clumps of trees are still alive)


We took pictures of a few of the MANY different Cactus on the Preserve


Some of which we didn't notice until too late.




We were leaving the park just in time to catch the sunset.

Before and After of the house! Can you tell the difference?

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On the way to California!

Caleb's Birthday in Vegas.

Daxon waiting to swim.

Approaching Vegas.


Ready to go!

A Bit of his feminine side.

Last Days in Idaho