The hospital just finished building a new clinic and renovating much of the current hospital space. We took these pictures at the open house they had last month. Danny's favorite part about the clinic is that it is adjacent to the hospital (the old clinic was several blocks away) which makes it much easier to take call and see clinic patients on the same day.
Danny's new office - he finally has a window!
After almost 2 1/2 years, Danny convinced me that it was time for Colter's first haircut. I didn't cut much, just enough to keep him looking like a boy!
Colter discovered this truck in a box of outside toys and quickly claimed it as his own. He drives it all around picking up sticks, rocks and anything else that isn't moving and then finds a spot to dump it all out. 
It's hard to believe that just a couple of years ago we were taking backpacking trips where both boys were being carried. Now they hike on their own and do a great job! Of course a hiking stick and a snack always helps!
Danny has more pictures from our trip on his blog www.griffisfamilyoutdoors.blogspot.com.
While Wyatt was busy identifying and collecting trees, Colter was picking up every rock he could hold and then looking for "wa-wa" so that he could throw them and make a "big splash!" When we were hiking and he would find a rock, but didn't see any water, he would ask me to put it in his backpack. Every 30 minutes or so we would have to discreetly empty his backpack so that it wouldn't get too heavy! But as soon as he found water (even if it was just a puddle) he would stop, pull out all of his rocks and start making them splash.
Wyatt's favorite part about our trip to Arizona was collecting branches from all of the different trees. He quickly learned their names and would identify them as we were driving down the road. 
We met our good friends, Brad and Missy Griffin, and their daughters Anna and Kara, in Sedona, Arizona for a camping and backpacking trip. The kids hadn't seen each other since our trip to Yosemite in July, so they were happy to get reacquainted again over their favorite activity - playing in the dirt!
We had lots of fun decorating bunny cookies and...
dyeing Easter eggs.
Here are the boys with their favorite eggs.
Wyatt enjoyed his preschool Easter Egg hunt, even though he didn't end up with the most eggs. He learned very quickly which eggs he wanted and would walk right by the hard-boiled eggs and even shake the plastic ones to see how they sounded before deciding if he was going to put it in his basket or back on the ground!
Colter, who doesn't like to be left out of anything, got to hunt Easter eggs with the younger kids. He is so ready to go to school next year!
For Danny's birthday the boys decided he needed some water guns. They were excited to find a package of four so that we could each have one. A few days after Danny's birthday, he came home from work and Colter greeted him at the door saying "wa-wa dun. outside." What Daddy can resist an invitation like that?
Wyatt's preschool class participated in "Dimmitt Follies" (a variety show at the high school) this year. He had fun being up on stage and told us he was going to sing loud enough for us to hear him in our seats!
This was a picture I took after his teacher told the kids to sing louder. Wyatt made sure he did his part!
Colter's first attempts at talking could be classified in two ways: repeating the first syllable of a word (Wy-Wy for Wyatt, wa-wa for water, pot-pot for potty) or using sounds (choo-choo for train, shhhh for airplane). This has continued for many, many months! Lately Wyatt has been working very hard to get Colter to repeat words back to him. I think Wyatt just thinks it is funny to hear the way Colter says the words, but Colter plays along with it. Dandelion was one of his first three syllable words that resembled an actual word!
