The Jay Rockwood Family

"We've seen great sights"

12-21-07 from Jay, Aleen, Katie

Rockwoods at the Arctic Circle at minus 36.9 degres

Aleen, Jay and Katie are watching the Northern Lights at Bettles Lodge which is 35 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Temp. very cold. Now just below a minus 36 degrees. The high today was minus 20 degrees. We were all dresses with 6 layers of clothing and looked like eskemos with our loaned fur coats. The flight from Fairbanks to Bettles was cold but sights remarkable. We followed the Alaskan oil pipe line and saw Dalani and lots of cold mountian areas. The food is great and Lodge is warm with all the emminties and comforts of warmth. It is hard to breath when we are out in the cold. We're going on a dog sled ride tomorrow. The sun us up for about 3 hours per day from 11:30am to 2:30pm. We will keep you advised on our activities.

This gives almost as much of a fear danger adrenalin rush as Katie's.

After being my personal chauffeur for a year and a half he finally can drive on his own! SO NOW he can also be my delivery, pick-up and errand boy, ha ha just kidding...well no, not really.

He has been preparing for this since he was just a little guy, and then we made him wait so long. He was the first of his friends to get his learners permit and almost the last to get his final licence.

He said "the extravaganza has arrived!!!"

You'll never believe what I did today

I didn't tell anyone I was going in case I chickened out, but as it turned out I didn't. I thought it would be a good way to get my mind off Bryan, celebrate my half birthday and comemorate my 100th geocache find(it was in the parking lot out front). It wasn't scary at all...ok just a little. It was really fun though and I almost threw up after the parachute was up. (I've never grown out of the motion sickness thing) I never thought I'd do something crazy that Bryce hadn't even done. I paid the arm and a leg they charge for a DVD of it and some snapshots. It turned out to be worth it. Plus since I was all by myself I needed proof I did it. So here's the proof...

Thanks to Katie and Bryan for letting us have Sarah's party at their house.

It has been a good month. Sarah had her third birthday and Samantha turned six months old. She weighed in at 14 lbs. 8 oz at her doctor visit and had a good check up. Jacob takes good care of his sisters and we are adjusting to a new baby in the family. All the kids got their flu immunizations last Thursday--what an ordeal! We had to promise a treat at the store if they would hold still and then all three cried and cried after it was over. Now we just have to go back for the second dose of their immunization in six weeks.

Awsome Bryce!

The Spectrum
Bryce Rockwood pumps up the crowd as he heads for the finish line of the St. George Marathon Saturday in St. George!

Anna saw you there and in the newspaper and sent me this. She lives there and went to see a friend race, she was going to go say hi but she said you were on the cell phone talking all excited and happy.

Here is a link to the paper and picture for everyone, pretty cool!

The Spectrum PHOTOGALLERIES

where did all the Rockwoods go?

Hello from the cabin

It nice today - was really really nice yesterday (Jailynn, the Toll kids and Grandma hiked to "Beautiful" Solitude. Dad/Grandpa arrived last night but he has meetings all day today (to 8:30PM) and most of tomorrow. It is suppose to snow Friday and Saturday.

We all send our love and good luck to Bryce on his run in ST. George.

I'm using Dad's new computer at the cabin - he now just has to plug it in - SWEET!

Nate's dream

Here's Nate fulfilling a life-goal of walking out onto the island at Lake Solitude.

Bloods Lake

Looks like Katies geocache at Blood Lake got published. We'll see how soon it gets found.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gc15p3w

Family Pictures

I have been meaning to put the link here for the pictures from the Cabin and Joshua's blessing for a long time. I have most of them uploaded and I turned the block off so if you want to right click and grab any that you want, you can.
The Toll House Kodak Gallery

Just scroll down to find the file with the cabin pictures in it, it is down a bit.

Nate in Provo

Katie and I went down Monday to help Nate with the last of his stuff - the heavy stuff. I left late and got a few quick caches on the way so it was very hot when we moved the stuff. Afterwards Katie, Nate and I went around to a few caches nearby. I wish we had gone up in the mountians instead where it wasn't 100 degrees. Their house looks nice and clean and the neighborhood seems good. On the way home I grabbed some more for a total of 15 for me that day. It's kind of wierd that Nate and Carrie live in Utah now. Unfortunately it's still 84 miles away for us to drive wether we go through Salt Lake or Heber.

SWIMMING AT THE TOLL'S

Katrina, Kjirsten, and Tori floating in the pond. Unfortunately, this was the only picture we took (with Tori's camera). We do have videos of riding the goats, I'll see if I can figure out how to put those on here. We'd love to get a copy of the family blessing picture.

TORI IN CALIFORNIA

Tori and Grandma in Monterey. Tori had a FABULOUS time on her vacation! We'll get all the pictures on Kodak gallery soon.

Nate, Carrie and Simon's new home in Orem

More "Then & Now"

Here are some more, who has more of these with the spooky candle effects, so far it looks like an Andy thing that runs in his genes, some kind of aura, you know like midoclorians, the Force.

Then & Now

Here are some "Then & Now" pictures I thought were fun from the copper mines.

No pictures for the Blob

No pictures unless Katie wants to post some but she and I had a nice time hiking around in the Uintas yesterday. We found a few geocaches and placed one at Hoover Lake. We got hailed on while looking for a cache at Bald Mountain Pass, the highest paved road in Utah.