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I just keep learning more and more with photography...and I'm lovin it!!

Flowers are amazing

Relay for Life...for Todd

Jon and I have a good friend of ours, Todd, that is fighting for his life. He was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma about a year ago and is still fighting but unfortunately the cancer is winning. His great wife Stephanie has been an advocate for helping raise money for the American Cancer Society and put together a team for Relay for Life. Her team raised over $2000! And the whole event raised over $138,000! The event went all night long and every team had someone walking on the track all night!

Todd was a trooper and took a lap around the track with his team.
This was most of the team, some were coming a bit later. We tried to dress in camo to honor Todd who loves to hunt.
These luminaries were set up to honor loved ones. These two were for Todd. There were luminaries around most of the inner track, it was beautiful!
They had a luminary ceremony and lit tiki torches in honor of cancer victims. These were scouts preparing to light the tiki torches. They did such a good job being reverant.



Every hour there was a different theme while walking the track. This was at 3am and the theme was the 50s.
We're rooting for Todd and hope for the best for him and his family!

Ross Park Skate Park

There is a great skate park not too far from us and the boys just loved it! (The best part is it's free!!) Caleb did it all too, his ripstick, roller blades, and bike.

(You like Caleb's helmet? It's his snowboard helmet. He outgrew his bike helmet and I didn't know...oops! That noggin' just keeps on growin')!

I love how Josh and Andrew made use of the ramps as slides too. Ha!

Our chickies are all grown up

Well 5 months later since we first got our chickens and we got our first little egg! And we've been getting an egg or two a day since. They are just so cute and tiny.The eggs have varied in the way they look which has been interesting. This one is my favorite...speckled. But we've had really light colored ones and skinny ones and darker ones.

Anyone up for a mini omelet!?

Splish Splash I'm havin' a blast!

Over the 4th of July weekend we had a big family gathering at Oliver's house (Jon's brother) up in Idaho Falls. (His wife Keisha had a brand new baby only 5 days old or so...what troopers they were!) Gretchen (Jon's sister) brought her big blow up slide and Caleb couldn't get enough. Jon livened up the entertainment by giving the slide a go...in his regular clothes! It was hilarious!



"Here I go! (Before the slide falls down!)"
"Woohoo! That's COLD!"
"See that wasn't so bad. Oh man, now I'm all wet!"
I just love having get togethers! We always have so much fun!

Our show is good enough

We had a ball doing our own fireworks this year (for a few nights). Jon and Erik (his sister's husband) went a little fireworks crazy this year. But I have to admit it was fun to watch and it kept the kids really entertained.

This year I attempted to get some cool fireworks photography but they're still a work in progress. I realized I should've been much further away but I didn't want to be away from everyone. So that will need to wait for another time and place.
This fountain was the mother of all fountains we've ever done. It was taller than Jon!







After all that brightness I had to separate this one so you could see it. This was probably at 10:30 at night. The view of the hills behind our house.

We didn't end up going to any big fireworks show this year, but mainly because we just were having too much fun at our house. We had Jon's cousin up with his family (David and Karee Stosich) with their 3 boys and we just didn't want to leave. Nothing wrong with that I suppose.

Let's celebrate you today!

So how old do you have to be to stop telling people how old you are? Well Jon's not there yet so I'm gonna tell ya! He turned 37 on June 24th and it was fun to have a day special for him. I love to see that wonderful smile he has! We had the Peterson family over for dessert and enjoyed visiting with each other. Dinner on the other hand was not as fantastic as I envisioned. Our pump for our well went out and so I had no water....do you know how hard it is to cook dinner without water...VERY HARD! Well we made it work and Jon didn't complain...he was gracious about it. :)Notice the tool being used to open the present...the boys gave him grill utensils.
You can never go wrong with guy stuff! :)

Hello little sparrow

The boys and I were inside in the kitchen area when all of a sudden we heard "THUMP"! We looked outside on the deck and there was this cute little sparrow dazed and confused. Luckily it wasn't hurt and the boys had fun holding it.