Fall; means soccer....

Brig is playing soccer, he is in a 3-4 year old league. They play in field the size of a volleyball court, and play 3 on 3. They practice for a half of a hour and then play for a half of a hour. The first game he did really well during practice time, but when it came time for the game he cried..alot. Dad, mom and Meisha all spent time on the field with him. The next week was better only cried a little and spent most of the time by himself on the field at least running in the same direction as the ball.

School Started

Guess the boys are past pictures of them on the first day of school. But Gray drove to school he just got his drivers license. Gray is a Junior and Ky is a Sophomore, WOW where does the time go. They actually woke up to their alarm clocks, I'm sure that will change. But for now there are excited to go back to school.

About the hike

Dad really wanted to hike table mountain again (he did it as a 12 year old boy). He knew it would be a tough hike, Tyson did some research and found that it was to be a 12 mile round trip and and there was a 4000 foot elevation gain, most of which was at the end, near the summit. So on Monday July 5th dad, Jon (Meisha's husband), Tyson, Gray and Ky decided to go.

They got away late, it had been raining so they wanted to make sure the weather was good. They left camp at about 930 am with water, snacks, a MRE each (thanks to Reed Jana's fiancee) and some extra clothes, planning to take about 6 hours.

Well.....Meisha and I got everybody headed home, clean up the campground, drove to Targee and back and prepared dinner, Tin Foil dinners. At 5 pm no sign of them... I decided that they wouldn't want to wait for tin foils dinners so I fried bacon and fried potatoes, thinking we would have hamburgers, at 6 pm I decided they wouldn't want to wait to cook hamburgers, because they would be hungry, so I made a meatloaf. At 830pm it was starting to get dark and I decided that they wouldn't want to wait for veggies, and it was getting dark, so I cooked the veggies. And we waited...and waited at about 930 they pulled in. After 16 miles round trip, they were exhausted and hungry and tired. Their clothes were wet and they were sore. They had lost the trail in the snow and had taken the long way. They hadn't taking the time to eat since they left and moved fast all day. So they had a warm dinner and all went to bed. The said the view was amazing, the views of the clouds were awesome, they saw a moose and had a great time. They all said it was worth it.

Ky had worn long pants, yes wide legs and falling off cause the waist was too big on the way up I guess he decided he was too hot and cut off the legs with a pocket knife. It looked like Daisy Duke shorts when he pulled them up to his waist.

Hike the men took

Larson Reunion Tacoma Wa

Nelson-Allen Reunion

Yellowstone

Memorial Day Fun at Jana's

Trip to texas

Moving on!

Sometimes you just can't catch up, it has been too long. So the best think to do is start over...again. So just a summary of our spring and summer thus far.

May...Jeff, Brig and I traveled to Texas to visit Brenna, Brig loved the idea of flying and told every one in the airport he was flying an airplane to Texas. We went to Corpus Cristi and spent time with Brenna.

June...Schools out, summer school work and lots of rain...

July... The Nelson-Allen Reunion early in the month followed by the Larson Reunion in Tacoma.
We are looking forward to a visist from Brenna and family who will be here at the end of the month for Jeff's sister's wedding.

Time Fly's 2

The Christmas season brought snow. Brig loves to play with and eat snow (we watch out for yellow snow).
A friend at work made cute Santa hats, but Brig would take it off saying "no ho-ho", finally he said "ho-ho Merry Christmas" after Kaitlyn and Carson did it. I wanted to catch it on tape, but he wouldn't do it again.

I worked Christmas eve and Christmas day, I think it was good for everyone to think about how others spend Christmas, but yes Santa still found us. Brig was not interested in the tree or presents until 2 days before Christmas when he opened a gift and was so excited, after dad told him the golf set was for Jackson ( it was for Brig) he was patient and waited until Christmas afternoon.

Time Fly's

It is amazing how time fly's during the holiday season. Grandma Glenna (Jeff's mom) came to Idaho (thanks to Jana) for a few weeks over Thanksgiving. She was able to spend time with us and also Shirley and her family (Jeff's sister). While she was here one of her sister Jenny past away Jeff and I took her to Utah for the funeral.

April, Ben and Linkin came for Thanksgiving, we had dinner on Wednesday so they could return to American Falls/Pocatello.

The "boys" spent Thursday night setting up and playing a internet computer game with each other, it was fun to hear them laugh and enjoy each other.

We played skipboo (of course) and caught up on the Turner Classic TV channel movies, (Grandma Glenna's favorites).