Texas

Michelle, Calvin, Brig & Dad

Mom with gun and hit pop cans Dad and Brig on an old tractor

Adam trying to shoot himself in the head

Dad showing off his shot up pop cans.

Dad about being hit in the head with a propeller at the airbase

Calvin - isn't he cute!

A day after we returned from Arizona, dad and I jumped a plane to Abilene, Texas to visit Adam, Michelle, Brig and Calvin. We had a great time hanging out, watching the Olympics, touring the airbase and shooting guns. Calvin was a lot of fun to hold and play with. He smiles everytime you look at him. Brig was fun to watch play "tackle football" with his dad. They have sure brainwashed him to like BYU. Adam took us to a shooting range. Dad and Adam spent some time working on their upstairs room. They would have got more done if they didn't keep putting nails in electrical lines and shutting off power.

We are now back to work and I've started school again. Laura and Lindsey started their Senior year and are very busy.

We love all our kids and really miss those that aren't close by.

Arizona

Dad and I drove to Kingmen, Arizona with Galima, Max and Sophie and spent a couple days with them. Aaron arranged to be working in Phoenix so he wouldn't have to be with us. JK. We really had a great time with Galima and kids. It was great spending time one on one with the kids. Here are some pictures of our time there. Galima was great in letting us have her bed after her being gone for 3 weeks.

Trip to Seattle

Mom and dad at the beach in Seattle



Laura and Lindsey zonked out in car.

Laura and Lindsey being bored in car

Laura and Lindsey at beach

Laura and Lindsey still bored in car

In July, Dad and I with Laura and Lindsey drove to Oregon to see Todd and Lara and then on to Seattle to see Jen, Robby, Asher and little Hazen. In Oregon we went to a cool restaurant called Montage. They specialize in Macaroni and Cheese. You name it and you can have it in Macaroni & Cheese. We mainly hung out in Seattle and played with the grandkids. We did make a trip to Pikes market.

After Seattle, we drove to Forks, Washington where the Twilight series is based. Looking into the deep, dark forests, you can nearly imagine the vampires and wearwolfes. My camera broke in Seattle so I don't have many pictures.

Girls Camp

Laura, Lindsey and I went to girls camp. We had a blast. The theme was "Camp Survivor". We did some surviving since the generator that pumps the water broke so we had very little water (no hair washing). Also whoever was supposed to arrange the outhouses to be pumped didn't. 3 of the 4 outhouses were very full (a bit of splashing when using them). Therefore, 200 girls used one outhouse.

Laura and Lindsey were junior leaders. They did a great job. They were on the campfire committee so they had to get everyone to sing camp songs while waiting for devotionals to begin. They did a great job with lots of enthusiasm as you will see in the slide show.

We have a guy in our Stake who loves to be the Priesthood leader at girls camp. He has a trailer full of pranks he uses on the girls and let's the girls use on eachother. He created these "Lost" posters of some of the girls. Here are Laura and Lindsey. When found they had to be brought to the Stake camp site and received a candy. If they were kicking and screaming they got 2 candies. Laura and Lindsey were brought numerous times - the kicking and screaming was a show just to get the candy. Be sure to read the sign.