Just a few fun pics....

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Is anyone going to read this? I am trying to put pictures on here so here it goes.

Family Pictures

These are the pictures that we took in April of 2008. If people would stop procreating we could maybe have a current one for longer than 6 months... just kidding. The babies are the cutest, but now we need a new picture so nobody misses out on baby Sennah's cuteness. 

I get it!

Hey Powells I figured out how to post. Thanks Kacie for starting this its really fun, or it will be once everyone is sharing. So I was thinking the only people who posted their memories are the girls and I would love to here from our bros and our spouses. They should all have memories of Huntington also. And what about our parents? I want to here their mems. Come on people we would all like to read about some of these things and laugh or cry.

Carlos and I getting our picture taken by Truxton. We just got our white Christmas Tree put up and I decided to like it. It looked really nice. Carlos and the kids did the decorating this year. I loved that!

Truxton in his 4th grade Christmas program. His class sang a song called 'Santa you're to Fat' He was worried that Santa might get his feelings hurt. He is very thoughtful.

Lilly very much enjoyed her first Christmas program. She is in kindergarten this year and loved singing with her class. Plus they got to wear santa hats. She was wearing a pretty white bow but covered it with her hat. She still looked cute.

Hey is this thing working?

Little Sennah

I thought I would post a couple pictures of little Sennah and Kris for the family to see.

My memories

I remember a lot of the same things that you guys remember. That was fun to read! Here are some others that I remember.

1. Playing pioneers in the fields. I remember we'd ride in our awesome multi colored wagon and then give each person a single cracker to rashion for the entire "journey".
2. Sliding down the stairs on sleeping bags and our butts.
3. Playing hide and go seek in the dark down stairs.
4. Mom teaching me how to do a back hand spring on the mats.
5. Kris and I using the little trampoline to do flips onto the mats.
6. Giving people "roller coaster rides" on the tire swings.
7. Trying to throw apples and any other kind of fruit into the "pond" in our backyard.
8. Playing catch with Kris & letting him throw his fast ball to me. I pretended that I wasn't about to poop myself.
9. Having to always turn the lights on for Katie and Karen in the storage room because I was the brave one.
10. Terrible & Terrific Teri
11. Fresh tomatoes out of the garden.
12. Picking up our frozen cat Rice because it died from sleeping out in the cold all night, (That was so sad.) and sneaking Bob the cat into the house a lot after that. We also dressed him up in a little cowboy hat and took pictures of him.
13. Playing Boola Boola for family home evening and eating pudding for dessert.
14. Head stand contests & wrestling w/ dad.
15. Sledding down the hill and watching Jake Johnson show off by sledding down the hill shirtless. He ended up crying instead of looking cool.
16. Making huge lakes for the ninja turtles.
17. Driving the lawn mower off the hill.
18. Trying to "cement" the steps up the hill to our house with mud.
19. Watching fire works from the roof of our house one year. We also moved the tramp over so we could jump from the roof to the tramp.
20. Leann Halliday breaking our tramp.
21. Climbing up the walls in the hallway.
22. Being scared of the gorilla (dad's guitar) in our closet.
23. Katie waking up in the middle of the night and screaming weird things about chickens, and also the time when she got stuck between the wall and mattress.
24. Going on walks with mom to the canal or turn.
25. Feeding the calves bottles down by the Rowley's house.
26. Kevin and my lemonade stand (I was like 12! How embarassing.) Marissa Avery came and started to sell lemonade too, but for only 10 cents or something out of a gas can. We were so ticked!

That's fun to remember all this stuff.

Posting

Hey guys, for those of you who don't know how, posting is super easy. At the top of the blog (above what you are reading now) there is a bar with a button that says, "New Post". Just click it and it will take you to a window with a place for a title and then a big space for you to type your post. When you are finished just click "publish post" and it will be entered on our blog. If you want to get fancy, check out some of the buttons above your post entry, where you can enter photos, links, movies, etc.

Hope that helps. Luv u most! Hope to hear from you soon.

Kacie

Katie's Huntington Memories

 

My Huntington House Memories.
1. Highlights. I thought it was so neat that mom taught us dance in our house with all our friends. Carrie and Natalie ditching once and getting in trouble. 
2. Making haunted houses with KeriAnne and the Bagleys. YIKES!
3. Using that place on the chimmney that opened out by the back porch, as an "oven" to make mud pies. We used the old tins from potpies.
4. All of the programs we made mom and dad watch. We used the yellow and blue mat as a teepee in one play, and then we used the soundtrack to Stand by me, to make a concert. A hanger was my saxaphone.
5. Kevin, Wes, and the storage room. Mom that is funny!
6. KeriAnne and I sleeping with a highheel shoe by the window so if the house started on fire we could open the window and cut open the screen. I dont know how the boys would have gotten out. They didnt have heels.
7. Playing mail through the railing.

Katie, thanks for sharing! I don't know the storage room story. Please enlighten me. Kacie

Eleanor's 1st Birthday Party

Karen's Memories of the Huntington House

I decided not to read all of your blog entry, Kacie, until after I wrote this. If we have duplicates, that's why.

Your pictures made me miss our old house. I'm sure the sentimental song helped. Nice!

Here's what I remember most (right this second). I'll do it alphabetically, in honor of Ty's favorite book, "Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life".

A. Ant hill: There was one ant hill which I spend hours trying to destroy. I don't remember who helped me (probably Kris). We would step all over it, build traps (which featured a half-eaten peach, Popsicle sticks & a water-filled Cool Whip bowl). I bet that hill is still there. Go on with your bad selves anties.

B. Bathroom: Going to the bathroom together. If we needed to poo (sorry, for being so foul, I mean poop, of course), we didn't want to be alone. There are only so many times you can read the shampoo & conditioner bottles. That's still true. Luckily for Micah, I have a bunch of magazines here.

C. Coal: Carrying coal down to fill the Stokermatic & cleaning out the "clinkers". I never peed on them like some people. . .

D. Dog: slamming one dog's head in our front door after it chased me into our house. Running over the Avery's dog, Gizmo, with my bike. (I'm sorry you nasty little fellow). Running in circles screaming while the (Ward's?) dog chased me until Dad came running & saved me (Thanks, Dad!), Finding a stray dog in the fields and "buying" it a bag of dog food on credit at the Mill (Sorry, Dad).

E. Earthquake: Being in an earthquake in our house when I was 10. At the time, I wished it would happen again. It was like a giant ride.

F. Fence: Putting a sock on the fence with Amy & Joan each time we started a new school. We couldn't believe that they were still there whenever it had been a while since we had seen them.

G. Graveyard: Remember that year there was some "devil-worshiper" rumor & a bunch of kids didn't go to school, but we did, even though we lived right there.

H. Huts: "The fields" was the perfect place for a hut. I'm pretty sure I built a new one every week.

I. I love Jairus: Writing that on the water towers out in the fields with the tar chunks. It's like those tar chunks were sent to us by an angel (I guess it was the angel of vandalism).

J. Junior High: Walking home from school with Amy, Joan, Charlene, Marcey, Shaffryn, Alayna & being chased by Mr. Arnold b/c he thought we were ditching. The thought of us ditching was just hilarious to us.

K. Kristy & Kimberly Yougart. I was so jealous of their names. They were cuter than Karen & still worked with the K tradition.

L. Lisa & Lori. The names LeAnn always wanted to give us when we were playing house. So wrong! Kristy & Kimberly were WAY better! Duh, LeAnn!

M. Making cookie dough as a snack for Kacie when mom wasn't home.

N. Never imagining that my "creative stupidity" would come back to bite me in the butt so hard.

O. Old Crap: I raced Shawn out in the fields & the stopping point was this old trailer. I won, but hurt myself on an old nail sticking out of the trailer.

P. Pool: Our own private swimming pool the summer it rained so hard & the water stayed in that dip out in the fields.

Q. Quit: I quit babysitting b/c I just couldn't stand Chandler Pearson & Jared Jenson any more.

R. Rocks: Picking rocks out of the garden for hours & hours.

S. Sledding down the "big hill".

T. Trampoline: Taking a nap outside under the little trampoline (propped up on its side) when I was supposed to be mowing the lawn & waking up to it hitting me in the face. Karma.

U. Ugly: Thinking I was really cute & realizing the truth years later.

V. Volunteer: Volunteering to help Shawn Corbridge help his dad load up broken rocks & cement from their driveway, secretly hoping his dad would pay me.

W. Walking to 7-11 to buy candy & Slurpees. (at least then I was walking it off--sleeping it off doesn't seem to work as well).

X. X Marks the spot: Playing with lizards & bugs we would find until they died & then burying them & having a funeral. "Here lies our beloved lizard, Larry, who was our best, but not hearty, tailless reptilian friend."

Y. Why: Why wasn't I a reader?

Z. ZZZZZZZZ Sneaking outside in the middle of the night to sleep in the club house by myself. The genius never ends.

Home Again

Okay people. Let's do something with this blog. What do you say? I would love to hear from all of you, so here is my plan. I've been thinking about life growing up in Huntington and thought it would be cool if we could all share some memories of life there. So, I'll start. These are just random memories of mine.

1. Roller skating in the basement when it was just a cement floor. I thought that I was the most rockin' roller skater on the planet and felt that I should share my "expertise" with my sisters. So, I was the instructor, teaching her students all kinds of sweet moves.

2. Taking gymnastics class from mom. Everytime I hear the song, "Breaking Up is Hard to Do", which isn't often, I think of those cool gymnastics mats that we had. I just wish that I could remember some of those moves.

3. Playing outside on our incredible dad-made playground. No one else had such an awesome backyard.

4. Trent asking me if he could kiss me at the front door and then kissing me for the first time.

5. Trent spilling Sprite all over himself when he fell down the stairs the day we got married.

6. Kevin stealing from my stash of Blo-Pops hidden in my closet and the incredibly proud moment for both Dad and I when we ran down the hill barefoot. That hurt. Good times.

7. Tickle/Scratch.

8. Chocolate chip cookie dough made from the recipe in our heads (okay, mostly Karen's head), which we kept under our bed for what seemed like weeks, though it was probably only a couple of days. Amazingly we never got sick from the raw eggs. What were we thinking?

9. Tending 6 bratty brothers and sisters and trying to keep Kris from killing everyone by wrestling him, literally. That only worked until he was about 10 and then he was stronger than me.

10. Playing for hours in the fields. I remember the summer that it rained and filled up the middle of the "track" and we went swimming in it. (Karen and I were talking about that just the other day.) I loved to ride my BMX bike and go off jumps. I was awesome on that thing.

11. Mom staying up late to talk to just me. She had this sixth sense and could always tell when something was wrong. I loved that.

12. Mom coming down and announcing to all my friends that "the Holy Ghost has gone to bed and so should you" at midnight. That was not at all embarassing.

13. My brilliant plan to ride Ahab while home alone. That one backfired dramatically, twice!

14. Cheese in a wallet.

15. Saige scribbling all over Kody's passport with a Sharpie just before he left for his mission. Sorry again, Kody.

16. Playing the "Go Tell it on the Mountain" duet with KeriAnne over and over.

17. All us girls singing around the piano.

18. Cupcake and all her descendents.

19. Karen kissing Jeremiah when she was only 5. (Hope that wasn't a secret.)

20. Sleeping out on the trampoline. One particular sleepout sticks out in my memory. When Megan and I slept under the tramp and Katie, Karen and KeriAnne slept on the tramp. Megan and I woke up in the middle of the night to a lovely waterfall raining down on us. Thanks, Katie.

Okay, that's enough from me. I keep thinking of more memories, but I'm going to stop before I steal all of yours. Now you all get to take a turn...please?

Luv u most! Can't wait to hear from you!

Junior High

Hi everyone its me  GAVIN! Junior High is more fun than I expected it to be. I dont fit in my locker which is something that the other students need to realize (duh)! I just made the cross country team today it really wasnt that hard all I had to do was run around the field behind the school in less than 14 minutes so it wasn't that bad.

Baseball

Hey everybody! This is the last baseball news of the year. Gavin's team played in a couple of tournaments. They had a rough time. They somehow got into a "Super-League" tournament (super league is like the best of the all-stars). They really struggled with that. Gavin, personally, had a pretty good last game. He played center field and caught 6 fly balls! They only played 4 innings, so he was responsible for 1/2 of the outs for the game. It was really cool. He was also one of 2 kids who actually made it to first base safely. (He got out at 2nd. I'm not sure when the other kid got out, but he didn't make it home.) We were really proud of him. He did a great job and always did the best that he could. He pitched for a few games. That's his favorite. Center field can be kind of boring (though it clearly wasn't boring in that last game!) Here are a couple of pictures, look carefully and you can see the ball about to land in his mitt for the 6th catch.

I am stressing about finals, especially Chemistry. I will be done after August 5th and then I start up again on August 20th. 

You guys could start posting stuff here you know...

All Star

I have to brag about my totally AWESOME All-Star, Gavin. The team played a double header on Saturday. Gavin pitched the majority of the first game and pitched NO balls. Meaning that they were either perfect strikes or the batter swung at them. He had a great pitching game, not so great on the batting end. He struck out 3 times in a row and for each of those he didn't swing at the final strike. I don't think there is anything worse for a baseball player than to strike out because you didn't swing. (Okay, that wasn't bragging, I realize, but it makes the next part better.) They won that game by a landslide. I'm not going to get into the second game on Saturday because we lost by a landslide. But, we had a really great game last night. Gavin was the starting pitcher, he walked a few kids, but still did a great job. He had two great hits and scored 2 of our 4 runs. He played 2nd base for the second half of the game and made a really cool double play. He caught a line drive and immediately threw the ball to 3rd base for another out. I love it when he does cool stuff like that! I know that I am normally not a big (or even a little) sports fan, but watching your own kids play and succeed is totally different and I am kind of a crazy fan. 

On a side note, I dissected a cow's eyeball today. It was really squishy and cool! Last week we dissected a sheep's brain. 

Hi guys. I love this idea for a blog. I went on before and wrote a long blurb about us, but like Ty's, it was erased. Hopefully I'll figure this out.



Things are going good for us. We are staying pretty busy this summer. I just painted my bedroom, and it looks really cute. I'll try to post pics sometime. If I can figure that out. Zac's taking three classes this summer to finish his second degree. (He received his A.A.S., not to be confused with any other similar acronymns, this spring. He will receive his A. S. degree after this summer semester.) So between work and school, we don't see eachother a whole lot.



Jolee is getting so big. She saying lots of words. She says please, strawberry, mommy, daddy, baby, car, shoes, etc. All the important stuff. She's so much fun. She likes to climb up on everything. She likes to tap dance on the table in nursery when mom's not looking. She has learned how to kiss people. Her and her little friend Gavin kissed eachother goodbye the other day. It was a little to long of a kiss. (ha, ha) It was pretty funny. She is getting a lot of teeth. Last night she cried off and on all night. (The joys of motherhood. :)) I'll try to post some pics on her for you to see her. (May have to call Kacie or Ty on that one.)



We're so excited to have this blog. It's hard to be away from all of you. (Sometimes. ha, ha. J/K!) Come down and visit us. Can't wait for Karen and her family to come!



Love you all!

KeriAnne

Hola

Hi, everyone. I dont really know what to say. But we are all well and happy Claudia and Tatyanna are still at our house and that can be challenging, but still come and visit us just the same. We bought a kiddie pool yesterday just to wade in (much easier maintence). But my neighbor has a huge in ground pool that we are going to quite a bit, with a pool and diving board. I will be able to swim soon. cross my fingers.
Well love ya'll

June 16

Hi guys! Wow! are you impressed that I'm on this site?
I thought I'd be blocked.
So, I like this blog idea. A good way to keep up-to-date with everyone.
My latest news is that I had trouble sleeping last night because I'd just read a really creepy part of New Moon the second in the Twilight series. I wanted to call Kacie at midnight and have her talk me thru it. Instead I read a little further to get my mind to calm down. Holy Cow! But I'm almost done with it. It's been fun reading them.
Father's Day was fun. You know I love having you come and visit. Everyone enjoyed Wii!

Remember it's Aislinn's birthday Thursday. She'll be 3!

I'm having Lasik surgery that day at 3:00 and I'll be taking Friday off to recover. Come and hang out that day if you'd like.