Thursday, September 3, 2009

What a Summer!

Welcome, Charlotte Lauree! Your arrival was the highlight of the summer. Glad you could join us:-)

OKAY, so these are all in reverse chronological order, even though that is not the way I uploaded them...

These are my boys at Monahanas Sandhills State Park, trying out the slopes on the dunes just about sunrise on our way home from AZ



Sweetheart Kinsey jumping over grandpa for the camera!


Kinsey plays fetch with Uncle BJ, Moose and Duke


Katherine trying to avoid the spinklers and...wet dogs--good luck!


No trip to AZ is complete without at least one hike up Camelback Mountain. Dustin and I did it three times!





Howdy, Connor! Is the watermelon good?


This may be the ONLY good picture of Clint I have ever taken. I think he was too tired to pull any faces. Congratulations, pops! Good job with Ms. Charlotte


There is nothing like a good Sunday afternoon meal with family. Susan & Scott stuck around with us for a few days too. I don't have the trip to Show Low pics, but we did it. While it was in the 110 degree range in Phoenix, Show Low was 60! What a nice change.


Try as I might, I did not make any major advances in my efforts to be on Sage's preferred person list, although I must say that list is VERY short (mom, dad, and grandma Shari, and maybe Dustin)





OK, what's on your mind?


BJ and Katherine, so what do you think BJ was thinking?!


Hello Kinsey! Let's play ball!


Kenedi and grandpa had fun in Kinsey's pool!


McKay came to joy in the fun too. These two cousins whooped it up



There isn't another grin like Connors. What a easy going guy. Did I mention that he is pretty much always hungry?


Chance has an idea!



There were no dry eyes at GG's funeral. Very hard to sing



Laurie saying goodbye. This was tough.



So back in July we went to VA and DC



Zac greeting Mr. T-Rex



Doug's family and ours (sans Dustin, who has a serious aversion to being photographed) at the palace gardens in CW



Dustin enjoying the beach, haha




QB Dustin at work


No score and two months ago, Zac acted like a crazy man. Scoot over, ABE!



OK, I'm about to cream my brother Doug in a friendly game of beach football. Actually, it was more like Rugby, or just a free-for-all! But any excuse was good enough to take out some aggression




This ride at Busch Gardens, called Griffon, was exceptional! Zoom in on the front right to see some familiar faces.




Our June high adventure was whitewater kayaking. We spared no luxury when camping!


Well, that's about it. Summer has been loaded. We've seen, felt and experienced a wide variety of experiences and emotions. Thank God for all of it.

3 comments:

Clint, Marianne, Sage, Charlotte, Emery and Ivy said...

I wasn't prepared to cry tonight. Mom looks so pretty in that picture. miss you guys.

Virgilicious said...

Busch gardens is soo fun! i love that place. it looks like ya'll had a very fun eventful summer. love you guys!

Monson Family said...

Thanks for posting the pics of GG's funeral. She was so great and I really wish I could've been there.
Looks like you guys had a fun filled summer though! And I love the microwave on the campout - that is how I imagine camping to be :)