What have you been doing this summer?

We had a BUSY summer!! It started with the June Republican State Convention where we got to participate as delegates along with Bob's sister and her husband in Tacoma, Wa. Go Mitt!!

July 4th week was a  reunion of sorts with my husbands side of the family. We greatly missed three of our family members, but  Everyone else was there and we had great food, great activities, and great family bonding time. http://www.silverwoodthemepark.com/ One of the highlights was Silverwood theme park...check out their website... I certainly hope we make it a tradition at least every two years!

We had a basement/storage room/garage cleanout and sale along with craigslist listings galore. (gotta love craigslist!!!) Of course, My husband was out of town and my teenage son had a golf tournament so I ended up doing the garage sale myself with some help from my Mother-in-law, in between her hair appts, work, dinner group, etc. We now own a little less "stuff" and that feels good!!

I went on a 58 mile bike high adventure with 19 of our Laurels in our stake. We rode 28miles on the Trail of the CD'A the first day. We stopped in Harrison for a swim and icecream then went on to camp at Chatcolet. What a beautiful ride! The next day we went to Hiawatha trail and rode 15miles down and 15miles back up. It wasn't to bad of a ride up... the mt. grade is less than 2%, but being on a bike for that many hours for two days was the greatest challenge, but WE DID IT!! (Love the nasty pic of my backside after coming out of the 1.7 mile dark, wet, muddy, scary tunnell) Check out the links to these bike trails and maybe it will entice you to come visit us to ride our beautiful trails.
http://friendsofcdatrails.org/CdA_Trail/index.html
I'll post about girls camp and education week next time...maybe.

Halloween post in November

A little Halloween came to our house!

Big Bear...

Little Bear.

Big Scarey Pumpkin...

Little Sweet Pumpkin.

Missing all the family and friends, especially now that its that holiday time of year!

other CDA golf tourney photos

This is Michael's CDA golf tourney- 2nd pl. in his age group

This is Michael.

This is Michael's gallery.

This is Michael's caddy Goren from Romania.

This is Michael's first chance to play the only floating green in the world.

This is Michael's postcard moment

Michael's first Golf trophy!!!

This is Michael's first year of golfing. He has been working very hard to prepare for next season's UHi golf team and hoping to gain a spot on Varsity. He did many tournaments this summer, lessons, practice, and rounds with his Uncle and Dad. It paid off! He won his age bracket in his last tournament and qualified to play at the Courd alene Resort for the championship on Sept. 1st. That's pretty cool!!! (Michael is pictured holding the trophy, with the other players that metalled. He also won the hat he's wearing.) It was a good day!

McCall & Michael

Just to give you an idea how tall Michael is getting... McCall & Michael modeling aprons and getting ready to make sugar cookies. McCall was home for her spring break this week. Besides fighting over who gets the shower first, they really miss each other when she is at college.

What to do in the Winter

You first enjoy its beauty, right out your front door!

You enjoy time with friends home for the holidays.

You practice duck hunting in your grammy jammies.

You put your snowboard stuff on and hope someone will take you to the mountain.

You take up playing the piano (even the dog enjoys it).