Halloween 09

Boys' Weekend

Rod and Randy got brave and invited their boys for a weekend of camping.

They were "winging" it pretty much the entire weekend due to an unexpected trailer probably on our way over. This is a campground they finally found. The locals called it "Poor Man's Campground." You can see that we are the poorest of them all because the place was empty!

... but beautiful

This is a mountain the boys climbed and wore themselves out. (they are in the picture somewhere!)

Treovn can hardly keep his eyes open, but he's NOT going to bed yet. This is way too much fun!

More boy fun!

They didn't starve and the boys are ready to go again. The dads.....???

Kitchen Family Reunion

~Kitchen Family Reunion~

Ready for company to arrive - 42 for dinner

Sarah's family was visiting from Wisconsin so it was fun to get to know them again

Lisa shared some pictures from Isreal and Greece...very interesting

Former roommates

Our highest number of guests...51 Saturday afternoon

The whole gang, minus those that weren't here - about 16

Sanderson clan

DeAnne has always been so photogenic

Birthday boys

2 days worth!

Saying goodbye

First day of school

Tessa

6th grade middle school

Trevon

4th grade

Kaylee Anne
Preschool

Three kids

Three schools

Three schedules

Whatever am I going to do in the 7 hours/week of

no kids

no schedule

no noise

?

Fast learner

Tessa spent half the day trying to get the training wheels off the bike,

Kaylee spent 5 minutes with a little help from Tessa,

and then they called me to come out and watch...

Wow! I guess when you turn 5 you can learn things really fast!

Our baby is the BIG 5

Favorite dinner...breakfast!

Notice the open mouth?!

A G&G dinner

A friend tea party

Lots of goodies

Trying to get a good 5 year old picture

15th Annual Lake Roosevelt Trip

The mighty fisherman

A new adventure mastered - swimming, jumping, floating

A new talent mastered - bubbles! (She also learned to whistle. She was supposed to be going to sleep and I listened to her practice for more than two hours before finally falling asleep. Everytime she got a little louder she checked to see if I was still listening - hard not to in a medium size tent!)

The jumping rocks

Jared, Rachelle and a friend - this was the first rock they jumped from, they got taller!!!

Isn't the water beautiful?

Kaylee got her bravery from you mother...

Not doin' it!

A big hill and HOT sand - they made it to the top eventually. Good thing there was a cool lake at the bottom!