. . . staying out of the way . . .

. . . cheto is still at our house . . . 

. . . working his painting magic . . .

. . . i'm actually feeling 

slightly high today . . .

. . . refinishing countertops 

is stinky business! . . .

. . . so, colby and i 

needed to hit the road . . .

. . . we took a much needed 

trip to deseret industries 

with a yukon full of stuff . . .

{lately i've been frequenting goodwill with my donations ~ 

they're so close to home. 

but i was feeling a little guilty about my recent d.i. boycott ~ 

what with them being owned by our church and all ~ 

even though the last time i went there, 

they had the nerve to reject 

my no-longer-needed christmas decorations. 

today, though, we had time to kill.}

. . . on the way back, 

we stopped off 

at the temple . . .

. . . just to walk around and, 

hopefully, wear colby out . . .

. . . so he'd take 

a long winter's nap . . .

{i don't like parks and i absolutely hate sand!}

. . . turns out today was 

"finish taking down christmas lights"

 day at the temple . . .

. . . lots of cherry pickers 

and other heavy machinery 

to oooooh and aaaaaah about . . .

. . . but colby's favorite spot 

was this one ↓

on the east side of the temple . . .

. . . he must have gone 

up the ramp . . .

. . . and down the stairs . . .

. . . approximately one billion times . . .

. . . he also heard me say . . .

{about that same number of times}

. . . "stay on the sidewalk, bud" . . .

{he had a great time, 

but his nap still only lasted fifty minutes}