Summer Highlights

The first weekend in June was the Merrill Girls get together.

My mom and her sisters and their daughters met in Las Vegas at Aunt Carol's house.

It was a fast trip, but so fun to see everyone who could make it. Aunt Carol spoiled us with good cooking and a comfortable place to stay. We visited with each other and went and saw some Vegas sites.

Katie, Kacy, Amy and Angie




Jenny and Mom

Mom, Aunt Jane and Aunt Sally

The girls that went site seeing.

Roller Coaster ride.

Abby's Huge tonsils!

This will be the last of all the snoring.

Abby was such a great patient, and I thought she was soo cute.

She asked the Doctor if she could keep her tonsils. He said she could only see them. whew.

The whole procedure took a bout 2 hours. She went home and was on pain medication for a couple of days, then Tylenol worked after that. It took a good 7 days for her to get back to her

old self. I don't think we'll ever forget that stinky breath!

On the 4th of July we were at the Lake. Yeah. I love it!

Roosevelt Lake

Abby and Jayna

Daniel took Austin on his first wake board ride, and of course he loved it.

Ty, Abby and Jayna

It was a hot day, but that's perfect for the lake.

Mark doesn't love the lake like I do, and I don't love hunting like he does.

Marriage :)

Daniel had some fireworks and sparklers, so we had our own private show.

Austin and Abby had a great time.

We are so blessed for the freedoms we have.

July 18th

Happy 3rd Birthday!

Celebrating with some of his cousins.

He wanted a blue cake, and picked out the spongebob decor.

I love this little boy to pieces. He is such a happy kid. I'm amazed at all he things

he can do. Smart too, he seems to catch on to things pretty quickly. (except potty-training)

He is such a sweet boy to his mom. Kisses and Hugs all the time.

Big Hardy Reunion

It's always fun to get together and see everyone. This year was great, for a couple of hours we were all there. I love being part of this family and enjoy spending time with them.

Austin brushing his teeth.

Kaylee and Abby

Grandpa Hardy and Abby

There's always plenty of crawdads around. This one was courtesy of Chase.

Austin was really proud of himself for holding it.

Nate, Austin, Travis

All the big kids were going down this hill, and Austin always tells us he's big, so he did it also.

All by himself.

This is the jump at the end of the hill.

MAY 2009

Abby and Ausin before church.

May has flown by. Abby finished 3rd grade with Mrs. Youngquist.

She earned a perfect report card and tested into the G.E.M. program for next year.

We are so proud of her!

Abby Shannan Emma

I also got to go with her class on a field trip to Oracle state Park.

It was hot, but fun.

Poor Abby! A couple of days after school was out, decided to go on a lizard hunt.

The lizard ran under a big brick, she was so close to getting it, until that brick landed on her toe. Ouch!

Austin loved his swimming lessons at the YMCA.

He did a great job. "Very confident!" was one of the comments by his teacher.

Jumping in was his favorite.

The last day his class got to go down the big slide!

More bike news. No training wheels!

One day he told Mark to take them off. It didn't take long, and now we can all go on a nice bike ride together.

After his first big crash, resulting in a huge goose egg on his forehead. His Dad decided it was best to get a helmet that fit.

We can't leave out Mark's garden. He planted some tomatoes, squash, zucinni and some chili's. It has really grown, and has produced a few vegetables.

Safe?

I thought this was so cute, but it also scares me. He will try just about anything. The helmet would be good, it just doesn't fit. Most of the time it falls over his eyes.
He makes motorcycle noices. Rrrmm, Rrrmm!

Evil Knievel

I've been working a little more and Austin gets to stay at Grandma Jo's. Uncle Daniel loves to teach Austin all sorts of new tricks!

Just a picture of two of my favorite people

Surprise!

We had a surprise retirement party for Grandpa Hardy. He worked for the Santa Fe Railroad for 40+ years. Poor Grandma had a time trying to keep him out all day so we could set up. It was fun to see everyone and hear all the stories from the railroaders.

Austin - Uncle Ryan- Mark - Uncle Travis

Just some Hardy Boys hang'in out together.

Cousins

Playing Football

Coach Mark giving Cami the play

Every year we have our anual "Spring Fling" at Grandma Hardy's.

This is the kids before they get released on the Egg Hunt.

This year Nate and Austin got a head start.

Grandpa Hardy's small wood stack.

We got to bring Kaylee home with us for a week . It worked out that she had spring break the same as Abby. I hope she had a good time, toward the end of the week Abby felt pretty sick. Austin didn't want her to leave. She is such a sweet girl and I'm glad for the time we could spend together!

Abby Can Snowboard!

In Tucson, we have Rodeo Break, a Thursday and Friday in February off of school. We went to Utah, Brighton Ski Resort to learn to snowboard! Well, me, Abby and cousin Trent. Everyone else who went already were "professionals". Thursday night we went for it, trying to learn on our own. We did pretty good. Abby can control really good and makes her way zig zagging back and forth. Trent likes to go fast and use his rump for brakes. :)

On Friday Trent and Abby had a real instructor teach them. They improved more, but both think they might want to try skiing also.

Thursday night Mark had borrowed my cousin Aaron's snowboard and kinda had a bad fall knocking himself out. He felt better the next day and decided to rent his own. He did much better except for a small incident with a tree branch. :)I liked snowboarding OK. I just kept thinking I could be staying up with everyone else if I was on skies. It was a fun trip and I loved getting to take Abby. Next year Austin will have to go!

Eeeewww!

Austin was sick last week, but I thought he was feeling better so we went to Grandma JO's .
I went for a run and came back just in time to see Austin throw up all over Uncle Daniel. Oohh! Durning all this my sister thought to grab the camera, so we can be blessed with this picture forever. Poor Daniel! This week he is feeling back to his old self. He loves to do a few pull-ups.


Just riding around on the skateboard.