Happy Independence Day!

We sure are grateful for the freedoms and liberties we enjoy in this country. Happy 4th of July!

It's about time!

I'm finally getting some new pictures up. Yahoo for me! I'm trying to catch up, so the post dates will be dated to reflect when the events took place. So scroll on down and you will be pleasantly surprised to find something different than Arthur and I smiling at you from Bandelier National Monument. I'm trying to get this all updated before we leave on another vacation, and have even more to post, so hopefully there will be lots of new stuff in the next couple of weeks.

Packard Family Reunion

We spent the last week of June up in Washington State for the 2007 Packard Family Reunion--(Sharee's mother's family.) We had quite an adventure actually getting there. Our car was misbehaving the whole way until finally in the middle of Utah, the engine died. The kids were great about it and we had a "fun adventure" getting towed through the Spanish Fork Canyon. Aunt Melody and Uncle Carl were awesome to take us in as they were preparing to leave for the reunion also. We borrowed Grandma and Grandpa Packard's car (thank you!) to drive the rest of the way to the reunion. I wish I could say that we arrived there without further incident, but a deer jumped out of nowhere in Montana and hit that little black car! (Yes, we were wondering if anything else could possibly go wrong.) But that car got us the rest of the way, and we had a great time. We also had a fun time visiting Jenny & Brandon, and Julianne and Melanie up in Rexburg on the way up. Here are a few of the pictures from all the festivities.

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For those of you who actually check our blogspot from time to time, I know you are probably getting sick of seeing the Bandelier National Monument blog pop up. I have been awful at keeping this thing updated. But I have great plans to update it soon despite our recent downgrade to dial-up internet (a change which has drastically decreased my time on the computer for better or for worse.) Anyway, I'll post again soon. Don't give up on us!

A-Camping We Will Go!

We went camping the Friday and Saturday before Father's Day up at Jack's Creek. It was beautiful! We pitched our tent in this green meadow surrounded by pines and aspens, and wild irises! (I didn't even know irises grew in the wild!) Arthur and Dallin brought their new fishing poles and we found a little pond for them to fish in. Even though the fish weren't biting, they still had fun casting their lines out over and over and over again. Our friends The Schmutz's and the Halls met us up there Friday night and we sang songs around the campfire, and looked through Arthur's telescope, and went on a hike to the creek the next day where Daphne discovered a nice mudhole. Sean was so tired that he didn't have any fun at all, and fell asleep on a camping chair while we were striking camp. Poor little guy. I guess we just played too hard.

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Memorial Day

Arthur had to work on Memorial Day to finish some things, so the rest of us stuck around home. I got out the little wading pool for the first swim of the summer, and the kids had a blast! Sean was apprehensive at first, but after watching Dallin and Daphne go down the slide over and over, he decided he couldn't let them have all the fun. We had a picnic lunch and then a BBQ with Daddy when he got home.