We spent the last week in Idaho at my Mom's house. It is a perfect place to enjoy summer! Emily went a week early and spent her time reading, reading and then a bit more reading. When Justin and I got there we just enjoyed the beautiful mild weather. We went swimming at the sandbar, road bikes all around town, went to the Drug Store for 50 cent ice cream cones. We went and visited two old Uncles-Uncle Darell and Uncle Alvin(my Dad's brothers) That was hard to see them so frail. We had a birthday party for Van and watched the Sound of Music! We visited Regina and her family and then played some more at the river.
Playing at Grandma Dalley's in the summer is one of the highlights of our summer!!!
(there are a ton of pictures---like 50!Also-they are in crazy order)
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Justin loves playing with Grandma's trikes. He is almost too tall, but he figured out
how to make it work!! |
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| I love watching Justin concentrate and just totally get into what he is doing! |
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| The Horsey Park is a favorite-there are now new(shorter and not as fun) slides. |
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While we were at the park we ran into cousin Van!!! He is a little
whirlwind of energy!! |
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| The new little horsey isn't quite big enough for Justin! |
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I ran my first 10K!!! I even got 2nd in my age category!!
(there were only two people in the category--I was the very
last person to finish the 10K) |
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| Tyler Lamph and Ashley |
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| Waiting patiently for the parade to start! |
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| Sweet Baby Ava and her first snow cone!! |
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| Rose Cousins and family! Liza, Teressa, Aunt LaRae and Connie |
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| Val and Nora Terry |
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| Emily and Ava |
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| Dave, Vance and Daren |
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| Steve, Sydni, Birkli and Carson Spencer |
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| The view of our yard from the street! |
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The parade committee honored Uncle Merrill as the Grand Marshall of the
parade. He passed away a couple of months ago.
The family rode on this float and threw 150 pounds of candy!
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| I cried when I saw Kassi on the float crying! |
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Uncle Garth and Uncle Merrill were always yelling "Throw More Candy!" during the
parade. As the parade started I turned around to Wyatt and told him to yell.
He did and I cried! It is so hard to lose all these people we love so much! |
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| Great Granny Dalley with Ava |
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| I love the horses and flags. They are one of the favorites in the parade. |
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Each church congregation(ward) sponsors a float. The theme this year was
"They, the builders of the nations" |
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| We went to the Sandbar with Van--it was his first time! |
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| Van and Brittany |
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| Aunt Rhonda swam down with Emily and Justin. |
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This is what my mother's fridge looks like--Emily thought she was
going to starve!! We had to go to the store! |
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| Rose and Baby Ava at Vans birthday party |
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Uncle Royce set up a crochet course, he even mowed it
especially for the game!! |
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| Royce and Rhonda with their grand kids! |
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| Ava and the inchworm! |
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Justin pushed Van all around the course in the truck as fast as he could!
Van loved having a big kid to play with ! |
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| I love being from a little tiny town! |
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| Baby Bentley-he was a bit nervous about getting the candy! |
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Justin went to the rodeo with Sydni and her kids. He had a ball!
Justin, Carson and Birkli(and some girl photo bombing!) |
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| We celebrated Uncle Doyle's 80th birthday! Love these people! |
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Rose Cousins(at least some of us!)
I Love that my family is close and that we still love spending time together-even though we all live all around. It is strange to realize how time is marching on. Most of the cousins have married children and grandchildren-We have lost six Uncles, one cousin and two grand babies.
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