Idaho in September 2011

We spent the first two weeks of September in Idaho.  We celebrated my Dad’s 80th Birthday with a big party and all 10 of us siblings were together for the first time in 29 years!    This picture below is of ALL 12 of us taken the day of Dad’s party.   Left to right:  Linda, Melanie, Dianne, Julie, Dan, Gayla, Barry, Jennifer, front row left:  David, Mom, Dad and Randy.   It was pretty difficult for the poor photographer to get a good picture with out someone goofing off which we are all pretty good at!   Lucky for me Trent took this at the same time.

Me and my Sweet Sister’s! 

Mom and Dad

  THE PARTY!  Above Dad speaking at the end of the program.  He was really happy to see so many friends, family and co-worker’s there and lots of ward/church people they know.  Ben and Mercedes were the “cake” server’s .    We did a musical tribute to Dad.  Us sister’s sang a song to Dad that we used to sing when we were in High School.   We had several  musical number’s preformed by various family member’s.  . 

Below:  Picture of all the family singing Happy Birthday to Dad at the end.

Allison, Trent and Ben

Here we are at a Graveside Memorial Service for my brother-in-law Jeff Stoddard held in Sugar City.  A windy cold day but a beautiful ceremony and so nice to be together!

And we did the following in Ashton, Rexburg and Blackfoot:

Fishing

  Catching big grasshoppers at the farm.

Farmer Ryan

Four Wheeling

Swinging   

Shooting the Bow and Arrow, Ben was really good at hitting his target!

Beautiful Sunsets Dad, David, Trent and Jay going fishing at the river at sunset. 

Randy, white kitty and I enjoying Mom and Dad’s beautiful garden.

Dad feeding the horse apples in the backyard.  Dad cooked us a wonderful Dutch Oven dinner (below) He is a wonderful Dutch Oven cook!  Yummy.

Out standing in the wheat fields at Dad’s farm…favorite place to be.  We really had such a great time it was HARD to tell everyone good-bye as we left to drive back home.  We should have slipped the contents of this basket below in our car on our way out though…..