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Saturday, February 4, 2012
A Family Trek up a Henderson Trail!
We went on a fun hike today with Trace being our fearless leader every step of the way!
Thursday, August 25, 2011
30 Things to Do before I'm 30!
My 30th birthday is looming over me...A bunch of my high school friends are making lists of thirty things to accomplish before thirty so I want to do the same! My list is going to be really easy though because after baby comes I will be pretty busy I imagine :)
1. Send out birth announcements/Christmas cards...never done it before!
2. Can some kind of jam...never done it before!
3. Get rid of binkies and bottles for Kendra before she is two!
4. Teach Trace to dress himself.
5.Update Trace and Kendra's scrapbooks.
6. Make and store at least 3-5 freezer meals the week before baby is due.
7. Go see the midnight showing of Breaking Dawn with friends :)
8.Sew carseat canopy for Baby Jack.
9. Read Book of Mormon between September and December.
10. One night indulge in all my pregnancy cravings (meatball sub from Subway, cheese puffs, Dr Pepper and a cookie dough shake to wash it all down)
11. Gifts for a needy family at Christmas
12. Lose thirty pounds by my birthday! ...Delivering a baby counts!
13.Go berry picking with family
14.Take family to pumpkin patch
15. Write in my journal every Sunday
16. Get Christmas treats out early to neighbors and friends
17. Go on one date a month with Kody without kids!
18.Try one new recipe a month
19. Visit visiting teaching ladies each month.
20. Teach my kids to do daily chores.
21.Overnight trip somewhere with Kody for anniversary in October.
22. Sign Trace up for sports
23. Learn a new piano song perfectly.
24. Have a baby! (This one is kinda cheating but I am running out of ideas)
25. Prepare temple names.
26. Read a book in my field of study (school counseling or Hispanic student issues)
27. Take a Love and Logic course through the Elementary School
28.Figure out how to do that blog thing where it crosses out my sentence when I accomplish a task!
29. Read On Becoming Babywise again so this baby will sleep through the night by 3 months.
30. Enjoy being in my twenties until April!
1. Send out birth announcements/Christmas cards...never done it before!
2. Can some kind of jam...never done it before!
3. Get rid of binkies and bottles for Kendra before she is two!
4. Teach Trace to dress himself.
5.
6. Make and store at least 3-5 freezer meals the week before baby is due.
7. Go see the midnight showing of Breaking Dawn with friends :)
8.
9. Read Book of Mormon between September and December.
10. One night indulge in all my pregnancy cravings (meatball sub from Subway, cheese puffs, Dr Pepper and a cookie dough shake to wash it all down)
11. Gifts for a needy family at Christmas
12. Lose thirty pounds by my birthday! ...Delivering a baby counts!
13.
14.
15. Write in my journal every Sunday
16. Get Christmas treats out early to neighbors and friends
17. Go on one date a month with Kody without kids!
18.
19. Visit visiting teaching ladies each month.
20. Teach my kids to do daily chores.
21.
22. Sign Trace up for sports
23. Learn a new piano song perfectly.
24. Have a baby! (This one is kinda cheating but I am running out of ideas)
25. Prepare temple names.
26. Read a book in my field of study (school counseling or Hispanic student issues)
27. Take a Love and Logic course through the Elementary School
28.
29. Read On Becoming Babywise again so this baby will sleep through the night by 3 months.
30. Enjoy being in my twenties until April!
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Bandits, Burgers, Baker City & Beyond!
We needed a quick family vacation but didn’t want to travel long distances in the car for two reasons: Trace and Kendra! We decided to visit Baker City, Oregon. We had never been to Oregon before and this part is only two hours away. Baker City is an old mining town and has lots of Oregon Trail artifacts.
We started our trip by going out to Haines Stake House! It was so good! Thanks to Kristin Bowman for giving us the low-down on where to eat.
This pioneer style stake house was so good. Unfortunately, I don’t think the pioneers had tasty onion rings and absolutely delicious burgers back then. Maybe though. It was so good we actually ate here twice on our trip!
Watch out! Kendra at the helm of the cannon!
Baker City is a super old town that had a lot of beautiful old buildings. We couldn’t help but snap some shots of the kids along the way. My favorite is the one of cute Lisa with baby on the way but Kendra with the rose is a very close second.
The Oregon Trail Interpretive Center was amazing. You can see Trace hangin with the Indians. We got a tour and went on a Nature trail. Kendra & Trace were most impressed with the giant buffalo you see in the last pic. They had a fun kids room with a life size wagon that you can fill with things the pioneers actually took and costumes to dress up in.
Trace learned to hold a rifle at Paizano’s Pizza! He did pretty good. We then checked out this park that was awesome. It had all the old toys that you hardly see any more like the teeter totter, spinny thing that Lisa & the Kids got on, and some sizzling hot long metal slides. lol. We avoided those.
We also went to the public library next door and let the kids play with the puppet show area they had. As we crossed the bridge back over to the park, we saw tons of kids on tubes floating down the river and it looked so fun!
Trace the puppeteer!!
The Train ride up to Sumpter was the highlight of our trip! We rode in a train car that was built in the early 1900s and they staged a train robbery. Trace was cheering for the robbers. The people were so nice and the kids just loved it! It was all of our first times riding on a train so that plus the beautiful scenario around there was awesome!
All of a sudden some bandits on horses came to rob us on the train! Luckily they had terrible aim!
The drive home was excellent (only 2 hours) and we decided to check out the cemetery to see how old some of the Oregon Trailers were. Lisa spotted this creepy headstone. It looks like feet or hands are on it trying to climb out! With that we returned home, but not before passing this GIANT factory thing that was falling over and apart. I ‘m not sure why I thought it was so cool, but it was. Last but not least we got some Ice cream which as you can see made Trace SUPER happy!
It was a great trip!
We started our trip by going out to Haines Stake House! It was so good! Thanks to Kristin Bowman for giving us the low-down on where to eat.
This pioneer style stake house was so good. Unfortunately, I don’t think the pioneers had tasty onion rings and absolutely delicious burgers back then. Maybe though. It was so good we actually ate here twice on our trip!
Watch out! Kendra at the helm of the cannon!
Baker City is a super old town that had a lot of beautiful old buildings. We couldn’t help but snap some shots of the kids along the way. My favorite is the one of cute Lisa with baby on the way but Kendra with the rose is a very close second.
The Oregon Trail Interpretive Center was amazing. You can see Trace hangin with the Indians. We got a tour and went on a Nature trail. Kendra & Trace were most impressed with the giant buffalo you see in the last pic. They had a fun kids room with a life size wagon that you can fill with things the pioneers actually took and costumes to dress up in.
Trace learned to hold a rifle at Paizano’s Pizza! He did pretty good. We then checked out this park that was awesome. It had all the old toys that you hardly see any more like the teeter totter, spinny thing that Lisa & the Kids got on, and some sizzling hot long metal slides. lol. We avoided those.
We also went to the public library next door and let the kids play with the puppet show area they had. As we crossed the bridge back over to the park, we saw tons of kids on tubes floating down the river and it looked so fun!
Trace the puppeteer!!
The Train ride up to Sumpter was the highlight of our trip! We rode in a train car that was built in the early 1900s and they staged a train robbery. Trace was cheering for the robbers. The people were so nice and the kids just loved it! It was all of our first times riding on a train so that plus the beautiful scenario around there was awesome!
All of a sudden some bandits on horses came to rob us on the train! Luckily they had terrible aim!
The drive home was excellent (only 2 hours) and we decided to check out the cemetery to see how old some of the Oregon Trailers were. Lisa spotted this creepy headstone. It looks like feet or hands are on it trying to climb out! With that we returned home, but not before passing this GIANT factory thing that was falling over and apart. I ‘m not sure why I thought it was so cool, but it was. Last but not least we got some Ice cream which as you can see made Trace SUPER happy!
It was a great trip!
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Stimpson Family Reunion 2011 - Sun Valley
Its been a couple weeks but we finally were able to get the pictures together from this year’s family reunion up at Sun Valley. We had a blast! It was so fun to see everyone and the weather was perfect! I even caught a fish!
Kenya came along and loved seeing everyone of course.
Sun Valley had a lot of fun places to check out one of which is this fat old bear sitting on a bench outside a chocolate store. Here is Jake giving this bear a few punches showing him whose boss!
There was so much to roast! In addition to marshmallows, there were starbursts (my favorite), a circus peanut or two, and here Andre roasted a tasty twizzler.
Trace and Kendra loved playing with cousins and being dirty as can be.
Yes their heads are missing, but good for them for getting off the ground! Go Sheri, Ryan, and Megan!
Grandpa with Landon checking out the entertainment around the campfire.
We found this fantastic place for pizza.WiseGuys pizza. It was so good, we ended up eating here twice during our trip and watched them throw the pizza crust high in the air. It was good as you see below.
One of the questions on the scavenger hunt was “find something broken”. Connor must have remembered that I sat in this chair earlier that day and broke it, so here is his picture! Oops! I still owe Larry a new chair!
Allison & Grandpa trying to win the camera scavenger hunt!
Sheri, Ryan, and Connor posing next to a log for 2 points!
And winners are………. Aaron’s team wins the scavenger hunt! Sugary prizes for all!
This year we each brought things to put into the time capsule which we will open up again in 5 years. It was great to see what people brought. My mom here above has a flower from her veil to put in there. They were married nearly 45 years ago! How cool is that?!
Families that Play Together Stay Together! Thanks to Dan & Mel for making these fantastic shirts for everyone. They came in all the way from Phoenix and it was wonderful to have them there.
The tuff boy cousins showin their muscles!
Love this picture! Trace & Landon. Especially like Landon’s face sitting in the dirt, happy as can be. 
Kendra is non stop chatter. Here she is telling us something very important I’m sure.
The three days went way too fast! Thanks to everyone who came for making this a great family reunion!
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