Konrad's 50th birthday

Konrads 50th birthday

Halloween fun

Halloween2008

San Rafael Camping weekend

Here is an album from our trip this week to an area called the San Rafael Swell. It is one of my favorite places in the world. Ben and Megan were with us and Jamie, one of my friends daughters, who now is living in SLC. It was a perfect idyllic weekend. The kids loved climbing and exploring and pretending they were Indians. Our campsite was in a little valley with juniper, sage and cactus. Just click on the album and view!

San Rafael Swell

Fall 2008

Here is an album of fall pictures. Click on the pic to view the album and read the captions. We are going camping this weekend so will add more pics next week.

From Fall2008

Canada

Just got back from our trip to Canada. We were gone for 2 weeks and it was a great trip. We went first to Casper, Wyoming and spent a couple days with Kon's Aunt Susan who has a cabin there. We packed her in the car with us and then headed for Calgary. After a couple days at his parents, we headed to Jasper for a 4 day weekend with his parents, brother Chris, sister Kate and their families. It was just great. The girls had a great time with their cousins, big and small. I am hopeful that I passed inspection by Konrad's family. They seemed to have the same reaction my family had...just really happy to see us so happy!! We did once again travel amazingly well together considering we travelled over 2000 miles, packed and unpacked our car and cartop carrier 5 times and had 3 girls (well, 4 when Susan was with us!) with all of our varying moods accompanying us!!! Konrad does have more patience than any man I have ever met....

The Canadian Rockies far surpassed any previous notion I had of them. I actually didn't take alot of pics because I knew there was no way to capture the immensity of their size and beauty. Here are some pics, though, to give you a glimpse of our trip. Again, click on each picture to see them larger.

Feeding Baby Natalie

Morning coffee



Lee's 80th birthday

Here is the overlook by our cabins


Hike up the aptly named Beauty Creek.



2 happy campers, 1 very grumpy one!


Lake Louise

Horsebacking riding

Went to a my friends Claire and Jim Sherner's last weekend with the girl's up in Logan.

They were very excited to see Claire's horses and go for a ride.

Here are a few shots from our trip to Ohio. We had so much fun with the kids. I did a 3 day Aunt Cheryl's summer camp. We went to the Cleveland Zoo, I conducted a First Aid class which they all had to pass off CPR, Heimlich Maneuver and Bleeding, danced, skatedboarded and went to the driving range. Konrad felt this was the right peer group to show off his golfing skills as they were very impressed!!

Three Cooks!!!

This is one of Konrad's favorite pictures from last fall!

Fishing the Logan River

Bear Lake

more pics

Fun with Crayfish

We went up to Red Butte where Andy is helping with research and helped him pull his crayfish traps. Girls loved it. Hannah was amazingly brave and helped Andy remove them from the traps. Zoe was trying to get brave and then Konrad got nipped quite hard by one of the little fellows so she backed off from them!!!

New Dresses

We hauled out my old Kenmore sewing machine this weekend and the girls experienced their first foray into sewing for themselves. I bought fabric that already had the elastic shirring and the girls sewed the seams and helped make straps. They were both so excited and the little sundresses came out quite sweet.

Cozy Saturday Afternoon

Caught this shot of Henry and Hannah having a cozy moment. So cute!! The cats have certainly settled in and we are all really enjoying them.

Grandpa and Grandma Slind arrived for a long weekend to visit us. We had a great time with them. Unfortunately, I did not get very many pics but Grandma did so I will get those from her and add them eventually. I did get a few shots from our birthday dinner for Hannah. Her birthday is next week but we celebrated early!
Zoe helped with the Birthday Blondie, as you can see...kind of a giant brownie.
My oldest son Andy with Zoe.










We had a steak dinner....that is Hannah's favorite.