First Day of School!! August 23, 2012

First Day of School!

 Mitch started 10th grade, Emily 7th Grade and Justin 2nd grade!  Mitch is always so excited to have these pictures taken!!

Emily is turning into such a beatiful girl!  She is MUCH taller than her mother now! She measures in at 5'71/4"!

Where did the baby go?  He is now a big second grader!

These two boys!!  They have such fun together!  We are so glad that the Wilkensens moved in across the street!

This is what their picture session turned into!!Silly, silly boys!

There they go! Just like that another summer ends and another school year begins!

Justin's First Talk

Justin had to give a talk in Primary.  It was his very first time.  He was terribly nervous!  He wasn't going to do it.  He was being very stubborn.  After we worked out a deal(bribe) he decided he could do it.

He went in and did a great job telling about how to Choose The Right.  Keep it up, buddy-we are so proud of you!!

Justin's First Football Game!

 Justin is playing tackle football this year!!  How is this tiny little boy big enough to play tackle football?  He barely seems big enough to me!

 His team has both 7 and 8 year olds so there are varying sizes of kids.  We thought Justin would be one of the biggest, but with both ages he is in the middle.

Justin managed a few really great tackles after he got the hang of it. We know that with time he will really start to enjoy football.  We are glad that he is trying so hard at practice.  It was/is a lot of work and it has been very hot. 

We are so glad that he loves it!!

Ashley Ran!

On August 10th Ashley ran her first half marathon!  That is 13.1 miles!!  She registered way before Ragnar.  Ragnar really killed her feet-stupid minimalist shoes!  So, she really didn't train for this half.  We got her new shoes and she decided to run.

She finished!!!  She says she would like to do one more with some training to redeem herself!  She finished in 2:50:59 .

We are so proud of you Ash for doing something so hard!!

Pioneer Days in St. Anthony!

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)


Justin loves playing with Grandma's trikes.  He is almost too tall, but he figured out
how to make it work!!

I love watching Justin concentrate and just totally get into what he is doing!

The Horsey Park is a favorite-there are now new(shorter and not as fun) slides.

While we were at the park we ran into cousin Van!!! He is a little
whirlwind of energy!!

The new little horsey isn't quite big enough for Justin!

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)

Tyler Lamph and Ashley

Waiting patiently for the parade to start!

Sweet Baby Ava and her first snow cone!!

Rose Cousins and family!   Liza, Teressa, Aunt LaRae and Connie

Val and Nora Terry

Emily and Ava

Dave, Vance and Daren

Steve, Sydni, Birkli and Carson Spencer

The view of our yard from the street!

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!

I cried when I saw Kassi on the float crying!

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!

Great Granny Dalley with Ava

I love the horses and flags.  They are one of the favorites in the parade.

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!

Van and Brittany

Aunt Rhonda swam down with Emily and Justin.

This is what my mother's fridge looks like--Emily thought she was
going to starve!!  We had to go to the store!

Rose and Baby Ava at Vans birthday party

Uncle Royce set up a crochet course, he even mowed it
especially for the game!!

Royce and Rhonda with their grand kids!

Ava and the inchworm!

Justin pushed Van all around the course in the truck as fast as he could! 
Van loved having a big kid to play with !

I love being from a little tiny town! 



Baby Bentley-he was a bit nervous about getting the candy!

Justin went to the rodeo with Sydni and her kids.  He had a ball!
Justin, Carson and Birkli(and some girl photo bombing!)

We celebrated Uncle Doyle's 80th birthday!  Love these people!

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. 
We are a blessed group!!!