2012-2013 School Year

Aaron is in 7th grade at the Jr High. Ammon has Ms. Duncan again in the behavior unit for 5th grade. Annie has Miss Day for 4th grade. Emily has Mrs. Ainge for 2nd grade. And Erica has Mrs. Brinkerhoff for 1st grade.

Camping-Harrison style

We had a family reunion for Michael's grandparents Liz and Ervin Harrison's descendents. We camped above Vernal past the Red Cloud Loop.

We arrived Thursday evening and set up camp. I still didn't get a picture of our camp site.

Aaron

 Emily

 Erica

 Ethan

 Ammon

 Annie

 James

On Friday the kids did a craft, they painted wooden picture frames, played a few games. Then they gave all the kids squirt guns. Dale got the brunt of the kids water, but they got it right back from him, even from a water bottle.

 Dale was squirting them and all of a sudden he pulls this water bottle out of his pocket and poured it on Annie and Emily.

Camping-Anderson style

Had a family reunion for the Joseph Willard & Lorana Page Anderson descendents this past weekend. We camped at the Lodgepole campground in Daniel's Canyon.

There was Mom and Dad, Michael & I with our 7 children, Samuel with his 3 (Dallan, Taylor, and Lexcie), Marvin's son Angelo, Caroline with her 2 (Zeren and Kezia), Joseph, and Dorothy.

Aaron getting the fire going, my dad cooking hamburgers

 Angelo wandering off, he loved to explore the campground

 Annie stuffing her face with marshmallows

 Emily and Erica

 Emily roasting marshmallows

 Lexcie after eating her roasted marshmallow

 James, he must have enjoyed whatever it was that he ate

 Annie, Ethan, Zeren, Erica and Emily roasting hotdogs

Dorothy, about to get hit in the face with a hot marshmallow, Aaron and Lexcie

 Ammon, don't know what he was doing to pull that kind of face

 Dallan

Aaron, Joseph and Ammon

 Ammon, Dallan, Ethan and Annie

 Ethan

 Uncle Charlie, Caroline with Kezia and Zeren. Dallan

 Dallan, Annie and Ammon cooking hotdogs

My dad and his sister, Annette in the background

James and Tigerlily

This is how I occasionally find James, he crawls up onto the changing table and sits in the basket of clothes. This time the cat was with him, if you look close down in the left corner you can see her ears.

14.7 Miles

14.7 total miles. That's what the kids and I walked on Saturday.

Our Stake had a 5 mile fun run/walk around Bottle hollow yesterday. Ammon went for .8 miles and then turned around and went back. Emily, Erica and Ethan went for 2.3 miles each. Aaron and I went for a total of 3.1 before I just gave out. My legs were feeling like jelly before we even climbed the last hill. I pushed through it and made it to the top but knew I wouldn't be able to make the whole 5 miles. I think we did the 3 miles in 2 hours or just a little more.

Rec. Center

We went to the rec. center and let the kids play for about three hours.

James and Ethan

 James

 Michael and Aaron

 Annie and James

 Ethan

 Erica

 James

 Emily and James

 Emily, James and Michael

 Ammon, Ethan, Aaron was holding James by the waist and when he fell over Aaron couldn't keep him from doing a face plant in the water, & Michael

 Aaron, Ethan, James, Ammon and Michael

 Annie was pouting

 Ethan, Emil,y and Aaron

 Ethan having a blast

 James after his face plant

It took 4 times of Emily going down the water slide before I got some good pictures

 Ammon after he went down the slide

 Ammon doing a back float

When we were done at the rec center we went and got pizza and ate at the park.