“If we keep no diary [journal], the path crumbles away behind us as our feet leave it; and days gone by are but little more than a blank, broken by a few distorted shadows. Life is all confined within the limits of to-day….”
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| We drove down with Zac and Thatcher on Friday before the big State Championship game (Saturday), and stayed over night so that Zac could be up early to run the race. |
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| 13.1 miles - and he did it in 1 1/2 hours - Great accomplishment. |
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| Rog, Thatch, and Zac (picking up his packet the night before. Click here to see his finsih |
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| There was the Homecoming Parade, and all three boys were on floats for football, but I didn't get any good pics :( |
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| Tagg went on his first DATE with Aubryn Jones to the HOCO Dance. |
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| Good group of boys |
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| The Yard Masters worked in the rain on Labor Day |
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| Another Yardmaster problem............. Weed eater WHACKED and broke a window at River Cove that needed to be replaced :( |
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| Notice our boy in the STRANGE family pic? Thatch hangs with Bode and the Nelson family so much, that they had him "stand in" with their family pic (haha) |
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| Treyson with date, Gentry Criddle at the HOCO dance |
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| Most of these boys (all?) are on the football team. |
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| Treyson won a pair of Air Jordan's at a BYU football game that he went to with friends. Everyone was sure jealous ! It was a 1 in 1000 chance. What luck ! |
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| On our way to Tagg's Manti game. Zac and CJ are boring car riders (haha) |
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| Thatcher hurt his knee/femur with a BAD bone bruise at football practice, and missed the last 3 games of the season. |
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| Treyson had a birthday - 18 years old |
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| He prefers PROTEIN over Cake |
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| And Zac also had his 42nd birthday on the 28th. Where have the year's gone? |
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| Baby Treyson |
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| Baby Zac |
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| Top Pic 2021 - Look at these two boys towering over Cam !! Bottom Pic 2010 - What a difference !! |
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| Cam stays at our house, and Manda and Bren stayed in Zac and CJ's "barn" - it worked out so well :) |
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| We had a great day at Cherry Hills as usual |
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| Manda and Thatcher - picking raspberries |
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| Dickson Family Party - July 30th Happy birthday to Mark ! |
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| Mtn. Dew Chicken lovers :) |
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| Love these guys |
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| With Erika's family |
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| Love These guys too ! Wish Pays and Treyson could be here |
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| We had movies under the stars........ |
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| Good thing we had THIS guy here, to get us all set up. It was a process for sure. |
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| Cam has quite a few hairdressers :) |
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| Pics from Bren and Manda's adventure on a houseboat on Lake Mead (right before they came to Morgan) |
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| Looks like the end of the world drop off, huh? |
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| Next morning after we woke up from the sleepover in tents Two crazy girlies |
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| Fair Parade |
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| Our kids - love them so much ! They are all so different, in so many ways. Wouldn't trade them for anything. |
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| 1981 - Just a month old I can hardly remember those days -39 years ago. |
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| Senior picture - who knew what life would hold ahead of him. |
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| Earlier this month - almost 39 years old, with his 3 sons (on earth) Love you Zac - Happy Birthday ! |
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| Zac slipping off the back of his work van and caught his elbow on the bumper. Thank goodness it wasn't his elbow attached to the arm attached to the shoulder that he had surgery on ! He worked all day with it bleeding, before he finally went to the doctor to get it sewn up. |
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| Not a very happy camper, for sure. |
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| Night before the operation - Relaxing on the couch with Thatch. He says he's not nervous. |
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| Morning of the operation. Zac had his Labrum repaired, and when they got in there, they found that his Rotator Cuff also needed repair, AND a bone spur needed to be taken care of. * The labrum is a piece of fibrocartilage (rubbery tissue) attached to the rim of the shoulder socket that helps keep the ball of the joint in place. When this cartilage is torn, it is called a labral tear. Labral tears may result from injury, or sometimes as part of the aging process. * The rotator cuff is a group of muscles and tendons that surround the shoulder joint, keeping the head of your upper arm bone firmly within the shallow socket of the shoulder. A rotator cuff injury can cause a dull ache in the shoulder, which often worsens when you try to sleep on the involved side. Zac is about 3 weeks POST OP as of this post. It's been a ROUGH 3 weeks. Pretty Painful REHAB starts tomorrow ! |
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| And here's a picture from last night at the Midway Ice Castles. Glad he is finally able to get up and around and out of the house. Love that smile :) |
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| On July 4th - remember the wind? It took out a BIG portion of the old box elder tree at the back corner of our house. We decided to take the whole thing down, for safety reasons. |
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| Took down the old barbed wire fencing and fence posts |
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| Had a company come in and cut down the rest of the tree and drill out the stump |
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| We were left with this............ Not much privacy from cars coming down the road, plus the view wasn't too great (haha) |
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| Rog and Zac got to work Took down clothesline poles that I never used. |
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| Dug holes for the posts |
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| In the middle of all this, Zac had fencing problems of his own :( |
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| Set new posts where we could........... |
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| There was a section right in the middle that the piped ditch ran right through, so we had to leave those out for the time being. |
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| See that section with no posts? |
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| Got busy forming the mow strip up. |
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| Early Saturday morning - August 10th we started the pour. The kids were there with lights and hammers |
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| Even these two !! |
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| Quick and easy - got er' done |
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| It was lighter when we finished |
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| And just a little bit of rain.........no problem. |
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| We set the anchors to hold the posts that couldn't be cemented in the ground. |
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| It's getting there............ |
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| Up go the rails. |
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| I call this one - "Moon over My Fanny" (haha) |
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| Then in with the slats |
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| To finish up, we had to redo some of the sprinkling system. A good job done !! |
