Memory Lane

MEMORY LANE- Okay, so I got this off of Beth's blog and I had so much fun reading memories about her, especially because it was alot of the Philly friends that left memories. So I thought I would post this onto my blog. Here are the directions:
1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember! I guess good or bad but be nice!!!!!!!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.

Utah trip...

I know these pics are late, but here are a few things that we did while in UT. We ran out of memory on our camera while at the Harr family reunion in Fish Lake. We didn't get any pictures of St. George or the waterparks we went to. It was over a 100 degrees on some days. I loved it! Especially because I knew I'd be coming back to 60 degree weather.
Austin turned 6 while we were in UT. We took him to Boondocks and then had a little family party with him.
Ryder loved the horses and dogs. He couldn't get enough of them. Between all the kids and grandkids there were about 7 dogs at the ranch.
Greg's parents built this awesome cabin at Fish Lake and they added some great amenities for the place. This basketball court is one of them. Isn't that awesome that they can ball some ball while in the widerness?
This was a highlight of the trip. Grandpa Harr (Greg's dad) keeps his horses at the ranch and they were used often. Hunter and Greg, Preston and g-pa were off for a long ride. If you notice the white metal building in the background, well that is big enough to store three 5th wheels, ten 4-wheelers, and all the furniture that has been waiting to go into the cabin. Then if you notice the cabin, it's twice that size. They did and still are doing such a beautiful job on the cabin. If I could lift that cabin and put it here in Anchorage we'd be set.
Greg had a lot of fun with all the grandkids. He would take them 4-wheeling and horse riding. What a nice uncle/dad.

So I've gotten crap from a few people for not keeping up my blog but I have reasons....we left for Utah, we've had company living with us for a month and a half, and the babies have learned to walk! That alone has made life a little bit more complicated. Although, I did have time to go and get my hair all cut off and colored it. I went out on a limb and colored it black and red. The color has faded or else I would post a picture. I am going to have her do it again and then I'll post a picture!

4th of July

For the 4th we ended up camping about 15 minutes from home. That works out perfect for me because then I can run home and do some wash or pick up things I've forgotten, or take a shower. It was a fun time 4-wheeling, playing games, eating LOT'S of smores and just hanging out. We got to see some very late night fireworks from a town close by. They had to shoot them off at midnight, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to see them! If you look closely you can see the mosquito bites all over the babies faces. They must be really sweet for the mosquito's to like them that much.
Enjoying smores. A nightly tradition.
Ryder in dirt heaven.
Nancy Newell, Katie Russell and Robyn Newell. We are enjoying a game of dominos while the men are out 4-wheeling with the older kids.
Peyton's first bloody nose. It seems we have always documented all of our boys 1st bloody encounters. Why? I don't know, it's a guy thing and I am out-voted!

This isn't from camping, but it sure is cute! It doesn't matter how slowly I open the dishwasher they can hear it and they speed crawl to it. Just recently they figured out how to get up onto it, or maybe they helped each other up.

lil girls hairdo's

My youngest sister Jessica has the cutest little girl, Adde, and she always has her looking so cute. She's had a lot of people stop her and ask how she did Adde's hair. So she started a blog. If you have girls and have the time to try some cute hairdo's, then check out her blog: cute2tryhairdos.blogspot.com.

Suicide Run!

The other night Greg took Hunter and Austin, along with our friends Randy and his son Hunter (our Hunter's are only 1.5 months apart) on a suicide fishing run. They left at 3pm and got home at 3:44am, according to Hunter. Greg caught nothing, only Tim who I swear is a professional fisherman caught anything. Not only did he not catch anything he broke both of his poles and sprained his ankle. I woke them all up at 10am for church and they didn't complain the whole day! I thought this picture was cute of them in their bibs.
It looks like Austin has had a rough night, soaking his feet. He's probably seeing if his waders really are waterproof or maybe he's checking out the black bear across the river!
See the black blob, that's the bear. Good thing he didn't come swimming across the river.

Peyton & Ryder turn 1!!

Peyton & Ryder getting ready for some cake.

Our friends all came to help celebrate the babies big day. Thanks guys!

I made a baseball cupcake cake. I only had the babies dive into one cupcake each.

This Summer...

Austin started soccor. So far he loves it.
Hunter is playing flag football with some friends.
Jessica (my sister) and her husband Kelly came up for a visit. It was a lot of fun having them.
Jessi and Kelly. We went on a glacier cruise. It was fun.
The Newells (Kent & Robyn) moved up here last week. Robyn ran the 1/2 marathon with me. She is a trooper, she had only been here for a day and then her knees were killing her, but she kept running anyway.

I'll miss my childhood house!

I think all the girls in our family are very sentimental, this proves it. My dad retired this past January and they are ready to move on to missions and smaller sqft. The house I grew up in was the funnest house for a kid to live in. My parents got it as a bank repo. When they first bought it nobody had lived in it for years. People had climbed the back balcony and graffitied the inside. We did a lot of painting and cutting down trees. My mom has been renovating the house since we moved in. The house is 7300 sqft, it started with 9 bedrooms, 5 baths, secret passageways from closets, dumbwaiter, entercom system and all that great stuff. All of which were removed from the house, except the entercom system. That way we never missed any conference no matter where we were hiding in the house, oh, and we could ask our friends who we knew were coming over if it was really them at the front door. Since we've lived there my parents have changed every part of the house except the living room walls. They have added an apartment upstairs. They have added a big family room where a patio used to be. My brother landscaped and it is now so beautiful. As you can see they are stuccoing the outside and getting ready to sell. It's all very sad. So many safe childhood memories are there and it was the center gathering for when all my siblings were in town. It's the best thing for my parents, they don't need that much space anymore. I guess I always thought my parents would live there forever, like my grandparents did in their houses. Just like the way I thought we'd raise our kids in Utah, but here we are 3000 miles away. Life changes, even when you don't want it to! Thanks for the pictures, Jess.

It's official, my parent are moving!