Bend and Hells Canyon

BEND



Our second stop on our big vacation this summer was Bend, Oregon. We only spent one full day here so we decided to float the river. Heidi had to take Emily to the doctors so the rest of us braved the cold water. It looks like Sean is having second thoughts.



Marissa slowly worked her way in.

Tyson didn't have much of a choice, I threw him and his tube into the water.

Here we go. I know that it doesn't look like I'm sitting on a tube, but I am. It must be angle of the camera and reflection of the water that makes it look like I'm sinking.

Movie night.

HELLS CANYON

This was our first stop on our trip. It was unusually cool this year. We even had to wear jackets part of the time. The kids still had fun playing with their cousins. This is Tyson, Emily and Jenna trying to keep warm.

Marissa and Sean relaxing with Dixie.

Boys and their bugs. Sean, Boe and Luke caught a preying mantis at Grandma Susie's house and had fun chasing the girls with it, especially Heidi.

It must be cold there also.

Watch out Tristian, here comes Sean.

Run Tyson Run

Summer activities

We kept busy the first part of the summer with a bunch of activities with the kids. We went to the movie UP in 3-D. They gave us some pretty stylish glasses to wear.
Emily took swimming lessons this summer. She is turning into a little fish. Of course we forgot to take pictures of her during her lessons, but this is her riding home after one of her lessons.


Tyson started his first year of T-ball. He had a good time and did a great job.

HOMERUN !!!

Sean played baseball also. He played third base, outfield, pitched a little and anywhere else that they needed him. This is him with a good friend Nathaniel.

Tyson graduated from pre-school. His teacher lived around the corner from our house. We had fun walking him there with Dax (our dog) on days it wasn't raining.

This is Tyson with his teacher Mrs. Janet.

The garden
We finally got our garden ready for planting. We planted green beans, regular and cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, red potatoes, turnips, and eggplants. Hopefully it won't snow again this year, but it is Eastern Idaho.




Tyson and Bearworld

Tyson got to go to Bearworld for pre-school. They even got to ride in a "Grampa Howie school bus".







This bear is the one they used as Balou the Bear in the first Jungle Book movie.



OUCH!!


Feeding time for the babies.



Emily playing dress-up.



The boys trip to St. George

Travis, Ryan and I meet our parents in St. George for a golf weekend. After we all got there, Mom left the next morning to go to Sarah's to make dresses, leaving us alone to fend for ourselves. We survived on cold cereal, brautworsts, nachos and pizza (not good if you have a bad gallbladder, sorry Dad). We played golf about every day in 80 dergee weather, better than the 30 degrees we were having in Idaho. Dad looks like a pro here. It's a good thing this picture doesn't show where the ball ended up.





Poor Ryan had surgery on his knee and wasn't supposed to swing a club. We let him chip and putt when the Marshall wasn't looking.

This picture is prove to Mom that we kept the condo nice and clean the entire time.



There has to be at least one bathroom picture.


Lava Hot Springs

Heidi's Aunt Janet has a timeshare at Lava Hot Springs and invited us down for the weekend (of coarse I had to work). They spent a lot of time in the pool.


Emily loves to dress-up. Heidi's wedding dress almost fits.



EFY (Especially for Youth)

Marissa went to a youth conference at BYU-Idaho (it will alwasy be Ricks to me). She got all dressed up and had a good time.

There was a concert by an acapella group after the conference was over.

This is the main singer from the group. He is Grama Nancy's neighbor in Ogden.