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!