This has been a summer of fun things... family activities, trip to Fish Lake, 4-H with the girls, reunions at the DirtFarm....how quickly the time flies by and it is almost time for school...so enjoy the random events...The girls love to cook and are pretty good at it. It's the cleaning up that is the trial! The Reunions at the Dirt Farm helped us reconnect with lots of family members on the Barton and Losee sides. There was even a repeat of the mud bath...just new participants...Dad and his snowy white beard was quite a hit and drew lots of comments..
We loved Fish Lake and did a bit of fishing and hiking and hanging out with great friends. Last of all...Grandpa Losee loved seeing his old tractor looking like new.

Our Ironman Morning

The St. George Ironman is a big thing and since Colby and Jeff are giving their all in the organization of it we volunteered for a shift and were assigned the "bike course section four". We turned up early Saturday morning and got our bright yellow shirts and then found our spot on the bike trail right at a big turn. We spread out and did our thing! Such commands as: "Hazard" "big turn" "slow down ahead" were yelled all morning until some of us were hoarse. The sun came out and beat down but we carried on and cheered the bikers on. Thanks Sherri, Hayden, Garrett, Bryn, Carter, McKay and Kimber. You were great! And thanks Rusty and Connie and Addie for some welcomed relief and refreshments.

McKay pointing the way! They had a couple of crashes at their site and got pretty warm in the sun.
The umbrella was welcomed relief...too bad it came at the end of our shift.

McKay

Kimber and Carter doing their cheering

Bryn found a bit of shade behind the power box

Sherri and Hayden and Garrett shared the big turn.

Watching for the return of the bikers

the bikers loved Kimbers sign and she was so good to cheer them on with encouraging words. We were pretty close to them as passed this spot...but noticed the shade...It felt great.
The real hero's of the day were those crazy people who gave their all to swim and bike and run for all day long. They were inspiring!

April 2011

Catch Up Time...It has already been an eventful spring time! Dean is working at recovering from Prostate Cancer surgery and is doing great...and tries to take it easy and be patient about not getting out to his garden and yard too soon. It has been fun watching the spring crowd gather in the nice evenings and play basketball and ride the segways and just sit and visit.










































Zach, Tanner and Emily miss BREE

Preschool has also been fun as we explore the outdoors and Easter and kites and fairytales
McKay made the finish to our Tortoise and Hare fairytale day perfect when he showed up with the "tortoise and the Hare" Thank you McKay and Addie

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to all the March birthday kids....especially the biggest kid...or is that leprechaun!

Also Isla, Allie and Tanner. Hope you all have a great day!
Love you all.

The Nativity FHE Style....

What more fun could there be than having a Family Home Evening with your family and doing the Nativity....the big kids were great sports and dressed up and did a good job. The little kids just had a ball...the little girls (Bree and Emily) put on princess dresses out of Bree's closet to wear with there stars....the little stars wouldn't keep their twinkles on their heads and Zach wouldn't even put on a costume. Even Lucky was invited in and played the donkey part....wet dog smell and all

















The music was nicely done by the Condie family with everyone joining in with some of the songs.















The angels were flying all over the place but did find a good landing place. All in all it was a fun time together and hopefully a little bit of the Christmas Spirit rubbed off on all of us.










The next morning we watched as the Santa Clara Creek flooded again. After a week of constant rain in St. George this was sure to happen but it is scary to think of what nature can do. There should even be more water running as the day continues on.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE