Kate on July 3rd, 2009

So I guess flying 24 hours from Chennai to Green Bay wasn’t enough.  We thought we’d strap the kids in seats for another 24 hours or so and drive the minivan out to Utah.  The trip there went well and we were able to spend a fun 36 hours at a Krehbiel family reunion in Erie, [...]

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Leah on June 22nd, 2009

No I did NOT spell that wrong by accident.  As you can see my Sunday morning attempt to create a nice surprise for Shane when we got home from church was one “h” short ( he missed seeing it initially anyway in the shuffle of herding children into the house).   Of course I found that [...]

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Gavin on June 21st, 2009

Ella has now reached 5 years of age.  She had a couple small celebrations with old friends in Green Bay and of with family over the last few days.   The various activities included a sleep over, t-shirt decorating, cup cake making, a movie, a ton of cake, and of course presents. 
Ella seamed to enjoy being the center of [...]

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Gavin on June 21st, 2009

Josh, Greg and I set out mid-morning on Friday for a two day trip on the Bay of Green Bay.  Day one was foggy. It rained for a while and the reports threatened us with thunderstorms, but it was always warm with favorable winds so we pushed on. 
Day two was clear with a decent wind coming out [...]

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Kim on June 21st, 2009

Its been a busy last month or so for us. From Beaver Cabin fun to Arches National Park for Youth Conference to Arizona with the Carlsons we have been busy. Needless to say the backyard project has been on hold for a while. Enjoy some pics of what we have been up to.

TRIP TO ARCHES NATIONAL PARK

Hike up to Delicate Arch

On the first day we hiked Delicate Arch trail, it was nice and overcast so we didn’t die going up the trail and luckily since it was a Thursday it wasn’t too busy. This is the signature of the park and also adorns many a license plate here in the Beehive State.

One the second day we went white water rafting on the Colorado, normally a pretty tame river the flow was very quick and actually made the day more than a float trip. A rapid or two supposedly reached level 3. I had the chance to go through the largest one on a 2 man inflatable kayak (group had 5 of those and 3 large rafts). Dont have pics of this as you could imagine we got plenty wet - this one above I stole from the internet, it is representitive of where we went and what equipment we had.

The last day we went on a bunch of random hikes. We saw several large arches and rock formations. These individual pictures are much more impressive but this post would take forever to scroll through if I didn’t combine images.

TRIP TO ARIZONA
Emma loved being around her cousins (especially Colby - she sure does like playing with boys). Sadly I didn’t get any pictures of them swimming in the back yard or playing on the swing set… as a matter of fact as I put this thing together I realize I didn’t have the camera with me enough - a lot of memories are not photographed!

Next up on the slate was Mt Graham where the family has a cabin. We showed up and set up camp while Brad worked on tuning the motorbikes. Shortly after we rested while watching some good old de-forrestization by Paul and Mark Bellisario.

Paul and Mark decided to prove their manlyness by showing mother nature who is boss. They took the task of taking down a dead tree. I got this somewhat depressing sequence (video would have been 1000 times better) of it falling, sadly I didn’t get Mark’s blisters on camera. The photo above shows the guys won the battle but the visual ingrained in our heads of Mark’s hands tell another story.
Andrea found a tarantula while hunting with Paul for snakes. They brought it back to the cabin and had fun scaring the rest of us with their new found monster- which happened to make its way home to Mesa :-)

While up at the cabin we went on a hike up to Ladybug Saddle and looked out across the desert landscape , boy was it nice to sit at the top and get that mtn breeze! After the trip to the mountain we came back and relaxed a couple more days before heading out.

On the way home we took the scenic alternate route (89A) in N Arizona and stopped off to take a couple pics. The bottom left picture has a man fishing from the sandbar in the top middle portion of the picture. Click on it and look to see if you can spot him, this gives you a feel for the size of everything.

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Allyn on June 21st, 2009

I finally decided to use my blog!  I figure I need to do a better job at keeping the family updated on what is going on in my life.  I’ll post some pictures of Alaska soon.

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Kim on June 21st, 2009


Emma adores her Daddy, or Gene as Emma sometimes calls him. Emma loves when he makes her fly, (that is what she calls it when he throws her in the air and catches her). Daddy is the best at reading stories, it is never the same twice, he loves to make up silly new stories everytime he reads a book. He is the language teacher, he practices with Emma everytime she asks for something to get her to ask in complete sentences. My favorite thing Daddy does is take Emma to breakfast at McDonald’s every Saturday for a breakfast burrito. Emma loves it, she knows it is coming and runs to the door, and I get to sleep in. Emma also loves to play outside and watch Daddy mow the lawn, and go on trips to Lowe’s, where he always makes sure she gets her favorite cart. He always makes sure life is fun. We love you Daddy, Happy Father’s Day!

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Kate on June 15th, 2009

Ahhhh, back to the U.S.  So far we’ve enjoyed friends, family, Target, and Red Robin… you know, all the important stuff. 
On the way here we had the opportunity to stay over in Brussels for three nights.  We thought it would be a fun little excursion, as well as help with the jet lag.  It did [...]

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Leah on June 14th, 2009

Today I heard a beautiful song while I was visiting another ward’s Primary.   I thought I would share the words since they teach what I feel is pure doctrine on the value of families and God’s love.  Try to imagine 20 children ages 3-8 singing this with all their hearts.  You can find this song [...]

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Kim on June 10th, 2009
I was making Emma scrambled eggs for breakfast one morning and turned around and saw this:



She had gotten the Nesquick open and had taken a nice tablespoon full. Despite her tearing eyes and outward disgust she continued to eat the Nesquick, she even licked the counter after I took the spoon away. You sure wouldn’t think she was enjoying it by the look on her face.

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Leah on June 9th, 2009

Have you ever wondered how to get your kids to eat the peas, or perhaps that salad?  Maybe your kids turn up their noses to radishes and any tasty herb you might add to a soup or salad.  Maybe you have children that won’t even eat something green.  I have the answer to solve all [...]

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Louree on June 1st, 2009

I put some pictures up of our trip to Bryce Canyon and Cedar Breaks.  Enjoy!

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