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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

I love you all tons! I just wanted to let you all know that the family pictures can be seen at www.smile4ivy.com and then you need to type in Holliday to see them. They are great. I love them almost as much as I love you all!

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

H & S Family 2013 Travelogue: Coeur d'Alene edition

I apologize, again. I seem to have a penchant for subjecting you all with our

family's vacations. Since I don't have a blog of my own, I feel

compelled to hijack this one in order to record our memories. And,

unfortunately for you, this will be a long two parter. Afterwards,

I will post a few of the pictures that I managed to take of our

recent reunion and restore order to the blog. In the mean time, kick back

and relax, this may take a while...

We are kicking off our Couer D'Alene/Glacier trip with
a walk downtown. Here are my kids violating Mudgy
the Moose. Seriously, kids! (sigh).

The Cd'A candy shop. I found THE BEST
hot cocoa there.

Skye had cool hair that day and got lots of compliments,

so we had to document it.

The beach at Cd'A lake.

Family hike.

Don't know how to delete duplicates, sorry.

Our cute "posey" picture. Getting on the log was

such an ordeal, I'm just impressed

everyone was looking at the camera at the same time.

Ethan had a birthday while we were in Cd'A.

I had him choose what he wanted to do for

his special day. He thought it might be fun to

explore an old gold mine. After the gold mine

tour the kids got to pan for gold. They got to keep

anything they found, which was a lot of pretty

rocks and fools gold.

Gold mining fun!

Later that night Sean and I took Ethan out for a

birthday dinner at Scruds. They have excellent burgers.

I you finish one of their million lb stuffed, artery clogging,

instant coronary inducing Scrud burger you can

write your name on the wall. We sat at the

"missionary" booth, where many a Mormon elder

conquered the Scrud.

Happy birthday, Ethan!

This isn't Cd'A. This picture was supposed to be an

intro to part 2. Oh well, now its a

segue way. This is just outside Glacier. It's a

special bear reserve where you pay some money

and your first born (Ethan seems to get sold a lot),

to view bears in their "natural habitat".

It's

really just a glorified bear zoo, but it was still cool.

You had to keep your widows rolled up so the

pictures aren't great, but we were able to catch

an "artistic" shot of an old pudgy guy in the

side mirror.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

8 years ago

I was going through some old photo folders and saw all these great shots from June 2005 and thought I'd better share them. I sure love you guys! Let this inspire you to get back on schedule for your week!!! Richy and Kari, you're next week! Enjoy!

Baby Jonas got to join us at a Real game, it was very exciting!

Little Ethan celebrated his 6th birthday! Woa, dude, you are growing up fast.... I can't believe you were 6 eight years ago!!!

Baby Skye had joined the family.

These are all shots from Ethan's birthday party at Mom and Dad's. Looks like we had lots of fun!

And, right before we left town, baby Lucy was born!!! Sorry I don't have any pictures besides these hospital, brand-new ones. But isn't it amazing how quickly time has flown by?!?

Skye again, she doesn't look happy that Jonas is about to try to eat her...

And Sean thought Jonas was big... whatever.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Happy Birthday Kim!!! (12 days late)

Warning! This is a sad story, filled with remorse and shame.
One day, a girl named...let's call her "Heatherina" to protect her identity, woke up, looked on her calendar and exclaimed, "It's my beautiful sister..."Kimina's" birthday today! Now, even though they weren't blood sisters, they were as good as because they had a long and glorious history together and loved each other like family. "I will call her after (whatever morning duties there were to be done) and I will not forget even though I have a long and well documented history of remembering-then forgetting-then remembering the next day because for some inexplicable reason today will be different!" thought Heatherina. Alas, Heatherina's brain refused to cooperate with the new resolution and sure enough, the next day the realization and horror of her mistake hit her like a brick wall. Unfortunately, due to her daughter Skyelalala's birthday celebrations, family BBQ, vacation planning/packing/going, just general plain CRAZINESS, a call was not made the second nor third day neither. Heatherina vowed to put things right during her family vacay but for various and somewhat lame reasons she was not able to. Shame and remorse niggled at her constantly....I told you this was a sad story. Finally, she came home, and spent a day looking through bags full of photos in an effort to find one of just the two of them for the family blog. NADA! WTH!!!(what the heck! (this is a FAMILY blog people, clean it up!)) Heatherina felt like the universe was conspiring against her. Then her husband, "Seanalanadingdong" sent her the above photo and somehow Heatherina figured out how to get it posted on the blog. Memories of Heatherina's recent vacay to Kentucky and her visit with her sister Kimina made her happy and she hoped Kimina would forgive her of her faulty memory. Heatherina loved visiting with Kimina and her family was was ever grateful for her hospitality and yummy food. Heatherina also can't wait to see her soon and hopes she had a wonderful birthday (12 days ago)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The End