Butterfly Pavilion
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Jenny Lake in Grand Teton Natl. park
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Ahhhhh....the view from the top
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Table Mtn.
See our destination?  It's the "table" just to the right of the Grand.

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First day of school
Ellie -- 4th grade, Meg -- 1st grade

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produce
not quite sure why this didn't rotate...

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the coop
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the egg door
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Claire playing in the backyard.
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nap time
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Bunson Peak, Yellowstone Natl. Park
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Warm springs, Idaho
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Eden
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Climbing Eden
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Pat Austin
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Pat Austin
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Sharifa Asma
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sand & water in the backyard
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Fourth of July
fourth of July -- our house is on the parade route and the girls sold lemonade and baked goods.

Ellie & Meggers
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Claire prepping to float the river
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The Buffalo River...Island Park
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Ryan fishing below the dam
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Lochsa River
Priceless...the girls spent these few hours checking the creatures under this crystal clear water.  I loved watching them explore the bottom of the river

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The fam
Here's the girls with Dad and EJ.  It was a beautiful Palouse evening at their neighborhood park.

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Ryan & Will Sarett
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Ryan & Douglas Cameron
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Uncle Douglas & Claire Bear
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Zach, Ry, Doug, Joe, and Uncle Steve
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Uncle Steve married the happy couple
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Bob & Ranae Cameron -- parents of the groom
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Wade Cameron...the groom
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Claire with "the princess"/Kim & Wade
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Ellie Cate
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Doug playing at Bruce & Pam's bash
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Claire's first haircut!
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Hi friends.  Once again this blogging thing -- ugh.  I am trying to fill you in on the last three months and I can barely remember what I had for breakfast (seriously).  We filled these last few months to the brim (and then some!).  We did quite a bit of camping...a little around Island Park (along with the rest of southeast Idaho and northern Utah) which was really fun and some around central Idaho (Lolo pass area).  It was all incredible.  

Hawaii was awesome.  Yet, we titled this chapter "I have to go to the bathroom REALLY bad!" because traveling with a two year old who is newly potty trained is tricky!!!  Lo and behold, we didn't have one accident.  Oh wait, I take that back.  I was running to the bathroom with her on my hip somewhere on our adventure and she wet on me.  Does that count? 

We were constantly looking for a bathroom or something for three little mouths to eat.  I was fairly prepared, but 9 days on the road is quite the task with our three little women. 

Some notable moments and thoughts from our trip would be...

*No one told us about the chickens and roosters in Hawaii!  That is a pretty huge detail to leave out!  We were woken each morning at 4am by the wild and crazy neighboring rooster.  Awesome.

*Ellie had been told by her dad weeks before our trip that her dry elbows would be "healed" in the Hawaiian air.  She exclaimed at the end of the trip that "her elbows weren't crusty anymore!  Awesome!".

* Shaved ice.  Not sure I would ever be a fan, yet here we were eating shaved ice everyday with icecream on the bottom and sweet cream on top.  We are all fans.

* We all truly understand the humor in Finding Nemo now.  AND we met many of the characters in the movie on our many excursions under the sea!  In other words, snorkeling was so fun!  We were all snorkeling virgins and it was our favorite part of the trip!  So cool.

 

We enjoyed our time together and would love to go back someday.  Our pocketbooks need some time to heal though....

 

 

So, I don't blog.  Seriously.  I have always thought, "WHO has the time to blog?!!".  I have better priorities...  Okay, so here I am blogging.  I convinced myself that this will be a better way to share our pictures with our family and friends who live away from us. 

Now, don't expect anything fancy and lots of creativity!  I am doing this because I want to be better at sharing pictures, but I still don't feel that I have loads of time on my hands to be all "cute".  Bear with me...

Trissa

1/11/2009 2:15:50 AM - 001048922079

What beautiful pictures! And I like your web site....I was lucky just get my pictures uploaded. Beautiful children, spouses, and grand children. Who is that good looking dark haired older guy wearing the Santa hat? :) Love you all.

 

Papa and Grandma EJ

1/6/2009 3:29:00 AM - 002051489781
What a cool site.  Thanks for sharing your holiday pictures with us.  Happy and Healthy New Year!  Love, Lori