Crazy Sept. Fun!

School Starts

Ellie started 6th grade at the Old Jr. High, now the new Timpanogos Intermediate school,

she is excited, because her BFF Kenna Duke, is in her class, and that she gets to ride her bike every day.

1st day of school 2009-2010
Bekah-7, Ellie-11, & Weston-9

Ellie's off on her new bike, for school.

Lyn's Elk

I didn't get a picture of the elk, it was a young cow, but here we are cutting it up.

even the kids like to help run the meat grinder.

Ray and Bekah making elk burger.

Ray really liked to push the meat into the grinder.

We got around 200 lbs of meat.
We have already tried some of the steaks and the burger, both were delicious!

Pam and Trisha's Visit

Unfortunately, they had to visit for a sad reason, Pam's step-mother past away, however we still made the most of their visit. I hadn't seen Pam for years, and I hadn't seen Trisha since she about 1 year old, and now she is 18. So needless to say we had a lot of catching up to do!

Trisha, Ray, Ellie, Pam, Bekah, and Weston in front.
The kids really enjoyed Pam and Trisha staying with us. The girls even gave up their room.

Of course we had to go to lunch at the Dairy Keen, and Pam had to have the souvenir hats.

We also took Trisha, up to Breakfast at Whiskey Springs.

and made them get their picture by the sign.

Ray really took a liking to Trisha, maybe because he got to spend the most time with her, since he didn't have to go to school.

Ray was even jealous when Trisha got to go up to the Arnold's house to hang out with some kids her own age for a bit. It was kinda cute.

He tells me all the time that he misses Trisha and wants her to come back.

So I had to have this picture, because somewhere I have a picture of Trisha and I when she was only a year.

Pam is one of my BFF. We have been friends since grade school, and have kept in touch over the years. She was the one friend that wrote to me my whole mission, and I know that if I ever needed her for any reason she would make that 10 hour drive from New Mexico for me. I was glad that I could help her in her time of need this time, and I really enjoyed the spirit she brought into our home and the love that she showed to my kids.

Thanks for always being and Great and Understanding Friend!
I hope we can stay in touch better now that we have facebook!

Bear River Rendezvous

For the last weekend before school started, we headed up to Evanston, WY. to our favorite Rendezvous! Bear River!

Weston got to shoot the muzzle loader for the 1st time.

Bekah loved being Grpa Blaine's helper for the shoot.

Silly Ray!

Kids Games- The kids get to go and learn to play games that Rendezvous children would have played in the pre-1840's.

Bekah running the lock arms race.

Weston getting ready for the sack race.

Ray winning the sack race!

Candy Cannon!

Wadin' in the Bear River.

Ellie
It was a great way to cool off on the hot Aug. days

The guys soon discovered the crawdads,

and the hunt was on!

Lyn pretending to let it pinch him.

Ray was only brave enough to hold the craw dad with his eyes closed.

That night was the Rendezvous dance.

Many Strings and his band provided the music.

Lyn and I dancing!

Grma Susy, dancing with Weston while Bekah keeps time.

Ellie dancin' with the girls.

Chris, Tiesha, Bekah, and Ray.

Weston and Roxanne
Weston made a new friend at kids games and after he got up the courage to ask her to dance, they danced the whole rest of the night. They both had fun!
It was a great Rendezvous! We all a lot fun and made some great memories!

100 Days of Summer!

The slide show below is in celebration of our 100 days of summer this year. We had a fun summer and did a lot of FREE stuff this year. We had a great time being together, and hanging out with our cousins too.