A visit from Jeremy's family

What a beautiful little family!
Jeremy, Stephanie and Alexis spent this past weekend with us and it was great! She is growing so fast and what a cute little personality. She is such a good baby and well mannered. We sure do enjoy seeing each and every one of our children and their families. We also went to Chris and Carina's to play a game and get in the hot tub. Check out there blog for pix of that. What a blessing each and every one of our family members are to us. This summer we have been able to see every one of them in their own homes. It has been an awesome summer so far.
Nana and Papa with Alexis.
Dan also got his new car on Monday. What a great buy we got on it, too. He looks pretty sexy there on his hood. Now we just pray he will drive safely and that this car starts in the winter.

Dave's BBQ and the Park

Okay, so this blogging thing is more difficult than it looks. Anyways.... We went to this BBQ place and ate ribs and several of us had them all over our faces. Mmm, Mmm, good!

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

I'm finally getting around to getting the blog updated since our last trip. And wow what a trip it was. This was really our first long car trip in the 24 years we've been married. It was grand! We went to Lance's home in Liberty, Missourri. Spent a couple of days in their home and then went to The Great Wolf Lodge and swam and ate and swam some more.

We also went to a Cardinals/Royals baseball game and watched the Cards get whooped badly. Lance was pretty pleased about that. Jeff was not.

We also went to this supposedly nice little park unaware of the lurking danger in the grass. Needless to say Jeff has a nasty itch and welts to remind him of his mission days when they had to take care of Chigger outbreaks on there legs. He refused to let me take pictures of his outbreak for fear it would dement all of you. The funny thing was he kept talking of his experiences on his mission with these ugly beasts and then he was the worst affected. Dan and I have only one or two places on us and they were very mild compared to Jeffs. Then of course the baby blessing for Masen Maverick Carter was just grand. What a privilege to be able to witness this blessed event. To see the Priesthood used in such a wonderful way. Lance did a great job and gave such a beautiful blessing. What a great summer for traveling. We have been very blessed the whole time. No storm disasters while we were gone and no one got sick during the trips.

Happy Fathers Day '08

Here are a few of our favorite fathers. The only reason our other favorite fathers are not in these pix is because they are not here. We love you all and thought you might like to see what we did for fathers day. Of course we always celebrate Jeffs b-day too on this day. Finally we even had decent weather!

Baby why don't we go to Key Largo...

Here we are in Key Largo, Florida! AHHHH!!! The sun, the breeze, the fishing and swimming and boy could I just keep on going. We had such a great time. My parents and brother David and his three sons were there with us. As you can see my fishing days may need a little tweaking. I don't know if I could survive if I had to fish for my dinner! Others on the trip did way better. Mmmm, Mmmmm. What a stud! He looks good as a fisherman.
This was part of our catch for the day. The big ones are Amberjacks, there meat is like the darker meat on turkey. It is good but not as good as the little fish hanging which are yellowtail tuna. They were really good and we caught several.
This is me, Miles and Marley, my nephews and the Manatees. Sorry you can't see them very well but they are related to the elephants, no they don't have trunks or legs, but there skin feels the same. They are an endangered species and we didn't know you weren't allowed to swim with them or give fresh water, which is what we are doing to keep them there. This was fun!
Ahhh, the evenings in Key Largo. The sunsets are beautiful, but not as pretty as Idaho's. We found this great outdoor restaurant and went there a couple of times to watch the sunset with dinner. The food was great! Needless to say I wanted to stay the rest of my life, and Jeff thought two weeks was too long for a vacation. Well it was fun while it lasted and of course the memories will last a lifetime.
Where to next? Let's all meet for dinner somewhere fabulous!

Okay so we didn't actually go snowboarding in June I just didn't get this posted earlier because I couldn't figure it out. So Carina came and showed me how to do these awesome pictures and video. Hope you like it!

Bryce's Graduation '08

Here we all are in D.C. at the capitol building, our guide was kind enough to take our family photo, so if we look out of focus, we are! But we are glad to have at least one picture of all of us together. What excitement our nations history can invoke in our spirits! This was such an awesome trip.

We had the opportunity to visit Ft. McHenry where the Star Spangled Banner was written.
And I thought it only appropriate to put Dan and Jeff in there right places! :) They had so much fun with this shot.
Of course the Grandkids were always so happy to go along and see all the history. And they took it all in with such high expectations!

This was the "Piece de Resistance" of the entire trip- Bryce's Graduation from Dental School. Now he will be known to others as Dr. J. Bryce Carter or J. Bryce Carter DDS. Sounds pretty darn impressive huh!?! Well, Bryce said he still feels the same even with the extra initials and all that schooling. Way to go Bryce! And of course Amy recieved her honorary certificate for putting up with all the things wives do for there spouses. Way to go Amy.

We sure had a great trip and we will see these kids next in Georgia where Bryce will be working. WooHoo!!!