More old time pictures.

OK. This scanning thing has got me so up and down, I don't know how much David, or Kevin, are going to take of me. I was in tears this morning ready for drastic measures. Good ol' Kev just listens to me (not too much this morning because I wasn't doing much talking, to anyone) but he just came in and does his 'computer magic' and got it going for me. (Oh, I went and exchanged the other new printer for another printer that we couldn't get working either). Kevin has such patience and knowledge about these things. I don't know what I would have done without him. So it's only fair I start out with some pictures of him.

Remember what I said, everyone's got to have bath time pictures. In this it's doubly good because he's got the mirror there to admire himself. Maybe this is where the looking at his reflection anywhere he can find one came.

Here he's sleeping. This kid could sleep anywhere, and was sleeping through the nights consistently after 2 months old. He had to wear a corrective shoe at night.

Here is Leslie at Lake Powell. This would have been her first Lake Powell trip. I got the pictures in the wrong order. Here she has finished throwing the rock, and in this next photo you can see the rock in the air.

What is it with kids and throwing rocks into water. I think it's an international pass time.

I just had to throw this picture in. The girls love Rob and his short, shorts, with his boxers showing.

And at the end of the day you have to take a bath. This must have been early, or late in the season. I'm in jeans and we are bathing on the shore. Crazy.

I'm pooped. I have scanned over 70 pictures today. I'm going to take a break and go read some more of HOST.

Time; It goes by so quickly.

I bought myself a new printer so I could scan our old slides ( I wonder how many of you know what I'm talking about.) And I'm having some fun with it. I thought I would share with you some of my favorite pictures so far.

This is Andrea, probably about 6 - 9 months old. Cutie, huh?

This is Leslie in the infamous 'lion head drinking fountain' at Hogle Zoo. This was proably our first trip as a family to the zoo. Leslie's probably about 10 months old.

This is our darling little family at our very first house in Provo on 900 East. Andrea is just brand new, so Leslie's about 5 years - oh that's right they were closer than that. So maybe more like 16 months old.

This is me in our first apartment. I'm standing in the kitchen. Yep! It was gigantic. I could check on dinner, wash dishes and put the milk away without moving my feet.

Here's a picture of me, Leslie, my mom and Nana wrapped up in a blanket. What I would do with just a minute with those ladies. (I'm not sure why mom has a black eye, but she's HAPPY!)

And every family needs a bathtub picture. Sorry girls if you are embarrassed.

Well, this is great. And I'm sure you are all going to get sick of me showing off and talking about the good ol times.

Fun in the .. .. ... Not the sun!

We went away this holiday weekend. We were planning on going fishing at Strawberry, but the weather was not on our side. So, we made plans to go south and maybe find some warm air and sunshine . . . but we didn't. At least not much.

We hooked the 4 wheelers on and headed south on Friday. We got there in good time, once we passed all the traffic after Payson.

Here is a little travel log for you: The Christiansens were in Hurricane and had brought their 4 wheelers also, and Nancy's sister and brother in law rented some machines in Hurricane. We met there Saturday morning and took off on our 'beasts' right from town. It was an interesting ride. The first 7 miles were on the asphalt road and then another 7 miles of dirt road with no turns. We were headed somewhere, but it was taking awhile. It wasn't the most picturesque? But it's always fun to get out and ride and see the "world". We had a great time with good friends.




This was some weird thing we came upon, I called it the tire cemetary, but we think it may have been some way of catching water.

Here's Tyler finding where we are? We did have a map, but it wasn't too much help.

Here Christine is observing the 'tire cemetary' with amazement! She had a eye opening experience with getting to know our friends and riding the 4 wheeler. She was a bit nervous thinking that we didn't know where we were at all times.

Ok, here they are! The guys. David - not too happy about having his picture taken, and Tyler - still trying to find where we are. (To tell the truth, we were really very happy Tyler brought along his GPS).

Here is the lovely river bed we found for our lunch spot. It was pretty chilly all day long. We even got a little rain a time or two.

Look at the sky behind us, that's how it was all day. Yes, we did go to St. George. It's not the St. George I know. (That might be because this is in Hurricane.)

Helmet Heads! We had a great time. We went 58 miles this ride. WOW!

Didn't get pictures of the rest of the trip. (Send me some C) We went to Sacrament Meeting on Sunday morning. One of the members told David, we lowered their average age about 6 years. ONLY 6! I guess we were only 4 people to their 150. We went to Nancy's sister's place for a bar b q after church. The Butlers were in town too, so we all got together. It was so fun. The sun finally came out. It was still chilly though., and windy. We ate and played a silly game on the patio and visited. You'd think we never saw each other all the talking we can do.

Monday, David and Tyler waited around to hear from Tom about golfing, but never did hear so we got a late start to another ride. We went the other way to Bloomington this time. Still not real attractive, but great to get out. The air was still pretty cool when we were moving. Only excitement was a dead end trail we took that went up and up and up.

There you have it. Our weekend.