Summer's Gone...

In the air there is a feeling of excitement.

School has started.

New schedules are being routed.

New school supplies are being tried out.

New friends are being made.

Old friends are being caught up on.

There is anxiety about ability to complete requirements of enrolled courses

and just what it all means.

It makes me look back at the summer and wonder where it all went.

We had an awesome summer and there was little we didn't do.

Here are a few a the pictures I took of our summer.

I am not a professional...and really don't have an eye for photography like some of you.

But below is what I captured of our

Summer :

I got a pretty good deal on airline tickets to Utah and so our Summer started out with a trip to Utah. Lexi went a few weeks earlier than the rest of us (she actually took her finals early and left before school was out) to visit her friend Amanda and attend Amanda's graduation.

The rest of us followed and the first thing we did was visit the Quirrah Temple. It was at this time the open house for the temple was going on and so Grandma B made reservations bright and early the day after we got there.It is a very beautiful temple that sits right off of Redwood Road. It is a smaller temple...but very complete in every way. It was a wonderful time to teach the kids about the temple, what is done there and the importance of temples.

Afterwards we we to Magelby's Fresh and enjoyed a brunch and visiting with each other.


Later that day we visited Susan and her family.
Susan is always she a sweet hostess and we had a good time visiting with cousins.

Lacey and Faith

Beth and Grandma B

Kiara and Alan

We were so glad to meet Alan.

Beth also came for the visit. She had never been to Utah.

How fun it was to have her come.

She now can relate to the stories we tell and has seen first hand many of the places.

We were able to take her temple square right before she left.

Avery and Davis in the tubby.

Lacey, Lexi, Chase, Davis, Beth and Addie all stayed at Carly's.

Quite of feat to have all those people in a 2 bedroom apartment!

Carly was also in the process of moving since Mike had taken a job in California.

We had a girls day where we met at this Tiawan restaurant and enjoye a yumy lunch. We then went shopping afterwards.

We tried to help Carly pack and clean her apartment.

I don't know how much help we were.

This is a picture of Avery and Chase playing in the soapy water that

Carly had cleaned the porch off with and then pushed off the balcony. They thought it was great fun to get soaked!

Of course summer is so full of swimming.

Can't hardly go a day without it.

On the left is Carly's friend (her name escapes me but she was so very sweet and helpful)

Carly and Lexi are on the right. You can see Carly's belly..

Sun Princess Avery

Two cute kids

Lacey and Lexi

Chase

In my honor my parents threw a Garden Party where all the family was invited.

We enjoyed grilled hambergers, hotdogs and all of the trimmings.

Good food, Good people, Good fun.

Here are the cousins:

starting at the left:

Sheridan, Kamala, Brett, Zach. Kiara, Alan, and Kalee

Blake and Zach
My sister Jennifer and her friend John.

Grandpa entertained us with his violin.

He loves to play.

We love to listen.

This is the master chef...my mom. I love her.

Grandpa and Grandma B also treated the "adults' of the family to a dinner at PF Changs.

What a treat!

All my brothers and sisters and spouses were there except for one brother.

It was so fun to see them all and visit.

Also good to have Beth meet all of them.

They all thought the world of her!

Left: Sagan, Lexi, Mike, Carly and Brittani.

Beth, Lacey, Alan and Kiara

Grandma, Grandpa, Shanna, Ben, Jackie , Greg, Brian , Susan, Lance, John, Jennifer, Me, Becca and Scott.

We visited the canyon. At the mouth of the canyon are these HUGE windmills.

Covered Bridge Canyon

The crew at the bridge of CBC

Chia and Davis

I put this one in so all could see Carly's expanding belly.

Two little princesses

Addie and Avery

We did Carly packed and they did make it to California.

We had a wonderful and memorable time in Utah.

It was cooler than normal and so we weren't able to go to 7 peaks much to the dismay of the kids. But we did have a great time doing everything else!

Lexi, Shawn and Chase cooling off and having fun on the tramp.

Baby D eating an all time favorite

Our next trip was to Alabama to visit Alisha, Jarom and families.

Swimming of course was a big pass time.

Sweetness

(Kena poo)

Can we ever forget these two?

Oh the times they had playing with each other...

They had so much fun together...and they were always up to something...

The fun trip to Callahan's farm.

Riding the 4 wheeler

Petting the animals

Tasting goat's milk

(think we will stick with cow's milk...although we could get use to it if we had to)

Blueberry picking...I think we ate as much as we picked!

Silly girls with blueberries in the nostrils.

Swimming in Bob's pool

Playing soccer in the backyard

Every year it is my request to have my grandchildren old enough to leave the mommies come and spend a few days with Nuna.

So we brought Carden and Emma home for

"Camp Nuna"

One of the first things the kids did was to put on a puppet show.

I tried to download it here but it wouldn't work.

I did manage to download to my facebook.

If you have a few minutes go and take a look...it is so cute.

We tie-dyed t-shirts and Camp Nuna

Played on the slip and slide, went to Big Splash, went shopping and just had a wonderful time with each other.

In a few days Alisha, Nate Dogg and Kena along with my good friend Natalie Davies and her daughter Hayley came for a visit.

We so enjoyed visiting with them, going shopping, swimming, eating and watching movies.

We visited the Blue Bell Creamery. It was fun but the best part was the yummy ice cream they served at the end.

And if we hadn't already had enough ice cream we visited Maggie Moos to let Sam serve us more ice cream on his first day of work.

Natalie, Davies and Lacey

Emma

Hayley

So you can see we had a very eventful Summer.

Good Times!!!