We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas this year.
Ours was a new experience as we stayed in our very own home this year...... We have always stayed at either mine or Dan's parents... Soooo Santa had to find us all over this year.. We stayed in our jammies all day!!!

Kyla's First Fish

We went fishing with Kyla's new pole that Poppi bought her. And not only did she catch one fish.... but she cought two!!!She was very excited.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Ray & Nat's Colo trip

Ok we went to Denver in June and we had a blast with all our friends from Salt Lake City.



All of you better get ready to party on Sept. 6th at Natalie's house. We are getting married there and we want everyone to be casual... this includes shorts or whatever you would like to wear. We are going to provide dinner and drinks for everyone. I am so glad that we are finally getting married. I bet none of you ever thought Ray would do it again... or even better who is crazy enough to marry me... ha ha ha

Family Birthday's

Happy Belated birthday to you all!! Sorry if I forget someone.

Tish ~ July 1

Bree ~ July 1

Jerlyn ~ July 24th

Anna ~ July 26th

Sidney ~ August (First week in Aug)???

Did I forget anyone?

Tish and Jess's Wedding

The Girls

Well, I was supposed to let you all know something about our Wedding on the 26th of July, (yes, Anna it was on your birthday). It was a great day if you don't mind a little rain. Here are a few shots of the day.

The Boy's

Boy's Link to Jib Jab

This was funny!

Well.... I'm a thinking if we are going to start a family blog that maybe I should be the first to submitt something. I guess this is the BIG "Celebration" week for all of us Mormons in Sanford and Manassa. I will post pictures of the goings on later. But more importantly this week we have Tish and Jess's wedding reception coming up on Saturday, July 26th. As you all know they did get married on April 15th with just their immediate family attending. (Mom's and Dad's. We threw in a couple of sisters too!) They wanted to have a reception for close family and friends and thought now would be the best time to do so. All the kids will be part of that celebration. All 11 grandkids. Seven original and four new ones! So we have a big weekend just for that.

The first picture was taken on July 4th. Leann's family and Lynn and I went camping up by Creede. The second picture was taken not too long after Jess and Tish got married. The next one was taken a couple of days after the wedding. Leann wanted to show her kids Zappatta Falls so we all hiked up there again with the kids.

We are getting a big kick out of Jay these days. He is getting into the acting business!! We have laughed.....Big tough Jay was asked to be in the Pagent this year!! Can't wait to see his acting abilities. Just something else to tease him about.

I have been really busy getting a float ready for the Sanford parade. After 38 years I still can't figure out how in the heck I still am building floats!! Oh well....this too will end. At least for this year. Jay and Leann have kept us busy going to softball tournaments for several weekends. First Jay in Taos, then the little boys in their "T-Ball" and "Coach Pitch" games, then Jay again in Gunnison. Poor Mom has to wait in the wings for attention from us.

Kayla too has had lots of adventures lately. She babysits for Tish full time.(When Tish has the kids) and in between has had 4 weeks of basketball camps and so far 2 weeks of volleyball camps. She starts volleyball for the school year on Aug. 11. So see just like all of you, we are really overwhelmed with summer family activities.

I know Anna has all Chandra's trip to tell, Raissa has McKensi's National qualification stuff to tell and of Course Boy and the upcoming wedding. Would love to hear about Carrie, Lucas, and Kristy's families. So spread the word around about this blog and maybe it will be a good thing for all to contribute too.