July - Come and Gone

Piece by piece and tested patience, Talmage's first car made it together, through inspection, and registered on July 30th.

4th of July

Lots of raspberries and a late planting of pumpkins.

A long row of girls (and Kade) at the funeral.

Sterling's Funeral

Damon's Endowment

Hanging Out at Specht's after Damon's Farewell

Last cousins baptisms before Damon left.

James's downstairs bathroom project!

Bryant's Tarantula!

Buffed and shiny!

Family Vacation to Utah:

UVU

Roots of Knowledge Exhibit

HOT, HOT, HOT basketball with Uncle Dale.

Learning to play Pickleball

Uncle Dale's Toys

Picture with Grandma

Swimming at the Hotel in Rexburg

Shopping for a Junior Miss Dress

Rigby Lake

Kioa's Dance Performance

Parade in St. Anthony

Car Show

Rodeo (after James had the brakes fixed on the truck):

(Lyle thought his book was more interesting than the rodeo.)

Ada ended up getting trampled by a steer in the "Cash Cow" event.  Fortunately, she felt much better by morning.

Kioa treated the Fam to Shaka before we headed home on Sunday.

                                                  

                                                   

Sariah reading a story just before leaving town.

Getting cream from Isenberger's for Mom's new diet.

An evening on the river with Spechts and Vard and the Jet Skis.

Games on hot afternoons

Reading in the hammocks

Throwing stars

Pumpkins at 351

Sariah's Youth Activity she organized.

Reichert's first date

Audio Books

Cleaning Talmage's Car

 

James and Hyrum go Backpacking, Good-bye to Laryn and Ronnie

For our Family Home Evening activity we got to go swimming at Stock's on a very hot day.  

Ronnie got super brave and was having so much fun.

Hyrum got in but had to keep his hand dry.

Wednesday, James and Hyrum left on their backpacking trip.  James would be one of two adults there for the duration.  Adventure!!

Wednesday morning the neighbor texted and was hoping someone could come get a snake off their back patio.  Talmage, Rex, and Lyle were happy to go to the rescue.  Didn't take them long to capture the snake and take it down to the river.

Laryn was ambitious enough to help the kids with the donut project they had been begging for.

The last day here, Ronnie finally sat on my lap but only because it meant she was in the driver's seat.  That's okay, I'll take it.

We took Laryn to the airport on Thursday, hard to say good-bye to those two sweet girls.

The temple is open again after the remodel and Sariah and Talmage were able to go Thursday morning.  Talmage also recently found out that two more temple projects, one in St. Louis and one in Denver, are taking place just before BYUI starts so he is planning to take that opportunity.  Pretty awesome!

After James and Hyrum got back on Saturday from their backpacking trip, James went with Talmage to get his car.  Talmage was able to back it off the trailer and pull it into the garage.  Progress!

 

High Adventure, Girl's Camp, and Laryn and Ronnie Visit

As soon as school got out, Talmage and Sariah headed off to the Stake High Adventure.  Talmage got to go as a counselor.  

Sariah's cabin at the High Adventure at Ensign.  Sariah chose to go ziplining and had a blast.  Talmage went white water rafting and got a bit sunburned but enjoyed it.

On their last morning, they got to do a zoom call with Elder Bednar--pretty amazing!

In the meantime, Grandpa had a cancerous spot removed from beside his nose and walked away with quite the mark.

Laryn and Ronnie came to share their love and sunshine at our house for two weeks.  Ronnie warmed up to the little boys and especially Hyrum fastest.  

Laryn is so much help, everything from fixing meals, to helping Hyrum with the neighbor's dog, to painting the downstairs bathrooms.

Talmage continues to work on his car a little bit here and there as can be done.  This week he is getting it ready to deliver to the guy who will cut and weld the frame.

Sariah came home from Stake High Adventure for a few days and turned around and went back to Girl's Camp.  The open-ended A frames were what was reserved so she took a tent.  She doesn't love camping but has come a long way since her first year at camp and being away from home.  Sister Clyde took them on a pretty strenuous hike and she did great.

Hyrum is also taking care of Olsen's dog several times a day while they are gone.  He's a bit handicap with his cast and a lively dog so Laryn and James have been helping him walk him.  The nice thing about Olsens being gone is that we have been able to go swimming at their place several afternoons.

Hyrum's First Broken Bone

Thanks to James, a spot in the garden got cleaned out to put in the tomatoes and peppers that had been in their pony pots for way too long.  For Family Home Evening we finished getting it cleaned up and the plants in.  Talmage was cat whispering at the end.

Sariah got to go to Reichert's Murder Mystery Birthday Party.  She had a lot of fun!

He role was the Homecoming Queen.

After a crazy series of phone calls, we found out that Hyrum's x-rays actually did show a fracture after we were told Tuesday that they didn't.

By Wednesday, he was looking like this.

On Thursday, when I was only partly with it on the couch after my endoscopy, James did 5 batches of strawberry jam.  That morning, they had picked them at the Hoyle's.

Saturday, James helped the boys plant the pumpkins. 

Talmage made a trip down to Utah to hit a couple weddings and visit family and some mission friends.  Big solo trip!

 

Silverwood

Happy Memorial Day

Dad took the kids to Silverwood!

Hyrum's last javelin throw.

So proud of Hyrum for going back on the hurdles after his crash.

Beautiful Day for a track meet.

Rex and Lyle's Baseball Team celebrating at D-Bat.

A surprise message and pictures from a lady who does humanitarian service in Guatemala.

HELLO!!! My name is Kim Roylance and I'm here in Guatemala with your amazing son.

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Kim

My husband and I are doing humanitarin work here and helping with the church. Your son is an amazing missionary!

We think the umbrella was Bryant's which he loaned to this family.