Labor Day pictures

 Hey everybody.  We had so much fun in Preston with y'all!  It has been far too long, but we won't have to miss it again for awhile! Yay!  I took a lot of pictures, but my computer is being lame and so they aren't in any chronological order.  I don't feel like taking the time to fix it, so random pictures of Labor Day weekend are below.  Thanks again for making it such a spectacular weekend for us!  We love you!

Labor Day Reunion

Dad and I loved, loved, loved the reunion. We are so thankful that you all came. It made it really special for us. Thank you for being awsome. Sean, Dave, Rich and Ethan you sounded so good. Thanks for being willing to sing. And a special thanks to Ethan for playing the guitar. Richy & Kari you rock. The food was great. You both worked hard and I for one appreciated all of your hard work. I need to down load the pictures that I took so I can post some. Hopefully Kim will post her pictures. I love you all tons. Mom

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!

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...

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                                           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.

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.