Father's Day

Here are some recent pics...including Father's day. We wish we could have had a really BIG picnic somewhere with ALL of the family!

Congrats to Gabe and Melissa on beautiful baby Mara! What a cute family.

We are excited to see Cara and Kim in August, when Cara goes out to BYU. We sure miss seeing that part of the family. Amanda will probably be living in Provo for the summer/school year and working at Stonehaven dental in Lehi, and not going back to Iowa. We will like her being closer to us.

We are also excited to hear where Sam will go on his mission! Any news on that yet??

We went to Yellowstone last week for two nights. It was a little rainy, but beautiful. I will try and post a few pictures. There were lots of baby bison, big bison and elk. We also stopped at Bear World around Rexburg which was fun, and saw the Rexburg temple too. So pretty.

We had a great visit in St. George with G&P a few weeks ago, and will go down again at the end of the month for soccer camp. Our kids love to visit the St. George cousins, and they are always so nice to let our kids hang out over there! Papa taught Amanda how to chop wood, and she got through a knotty stump while we were there.

Kaitlyn is glad track is over for a little while, so she can rest her sore muscles. She had a successful State meet, getting first in two events, a second and a third. Whitney and Cael were in a community track program recently with Amanda as a coach, and they enjoyed that. Whitney is still in the "running" for State, and we hope she does well. Cael wasn't old enough for that kind of competition.

Kaitlyn and Whitney are getting ready for girl's camp this week. Amanda will go as an assistant camp director. What a neat thing for them to do together. Hopefuly, it will be a good memory for them all.

Gene is doing lots of Driver's Ed this summer between camps. Never a shortage of kids wanting to drive!

It would be nice to hear from you all - maybe e-mail? Have a great summer.