“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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| Our Family - Summer 2018 Landon, Kacey, Brendon, Manda, Treyson, CJ, Zac Payson, Brightyn, Camryn, Me, Bexlee, Rog, Treyson, Thatcher |
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| With the GRANDS |
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| Landon and Kacey's Family |
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| Kacey and Landon |
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| Miss Bexlee |
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| Bright |
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| Pays |
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| Thatch |
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| Tagg |
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| Treyson |
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| Cam |
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| Rog and I with our children |
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| Hey - he smiled ! |
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| Zac and CJ's Family |
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| Christel Jo and Zac |
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| Manda and Bren with Camryn |
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| Cam and Manda |
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| Manda and Bren Kristy Preece took the pics, and she did SUCH a good job ! I would recommend her to anyone :) |
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| Landon worked out at the Morgan County Fair, with Crossfit Unknown. It was fun to go and watch him one night. |
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| Joni, Roger, Layne At Aunt Shanna's graveside service |
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| Remaining Brothers and Sisters Jerry, Judy, LuAnn, Wayne Carol and Shanna have passed on |
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| Landon trying to get his fence poles cleaned off. He is going to build a fence like Zac's down at his house. The poles were all dirty with oil and grease. He put a de-greaser on this, and then hit them with a power/steam wash. |
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| Tagg with his coach (Jared Venz) at football practice. |
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| Grandpa and his helper. Cutting boards for shelving. |
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| Breakfast - after our sleep over Tagg is the master pancake cooker |
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| Bright helped with the eggs ! |
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| Then she had to check out the goats. She loves animals :) |
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| There were left over cucumbers from Grandpa D's garden, and we slice them, and feed them to the goats and chickens |
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| Cleaning out the dam. Seems there is always something caught there. |
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| Robo Man |
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| Putting down the vinyl in the "dog room" |
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| We bought new boards for the picnic table at the Property. We worked to get them stained. |
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| Thatcher planted a BEAN in his yard (out by the goat shed) It GREW !! |
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| Beautiful light - headed west across Richville Lane |
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| Mark, Devin, Dax, Carrie At the Tonks Family Reunion |
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| Our Family Erika, Mark, Dad, Mom, Me |
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| Colton, Erika, Aaron |
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| At the Morgan County Fair Hadlee, Bexlee, Harper, Braelyn, ?, Brightyn Colored hair courtesy of Blakeley Taylor |
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| Bexlee is LOVIN' the swing ! |
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| More Raptors Game |
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| Cam and her friend Sasso |
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| Thatcher and his new prescription sunglasses |
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| Oh we had a great time, roasting hot dogs and marshmellows. Don't you just LOVE Bright in her girly dress for a camping trip??!! HAHA - Makes me smile. |
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| We made S'mores, and they were SURE GOOD !! |
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| The other LAME adults came down long enough to set up the tent, and then they high tailed their butts back to their soft beds, and let Grandma handle the sleep over. How come I'm the only FUN ADVENTUROUS one? |
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| It got darker............ |
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| We kept eating......... |
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| and smiling........ Treyson didn't want to come down either (party pooper) |
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| Oh how I love these kids. It was a magical night. So warm |
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| When we got in the tent, it start with Thatcher asking me to tell Grandpa Roger's Dead Eye Deer story. |
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| Everyone wanted stories..........but not scary ones, so we told Grandpa Roger's boyhood stories.......... |
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| 1. Dead eye deer story 2. Grandpa Ben chasing them on their bikes in the middle of the night 3. water snake bite in the creek 4. chasing sheep up Devil's slide rock formation 5. Diving off the high dive at Como 6. Scaring the kid with water at the milk barn, and slipping in the manure and more and more and more... (I need to write a book) They absolutely loved it, and it was a magical night. Then we all went to sleep, slept just right, no problems........ |
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| Then it was morning ! |
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| and the crackling of a morning fire.........built by the FIRE FAIRY woke us all up !! |
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| It was a little cold, so we cuddled around the fire |
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| Then someone had a GREAT idea to go to our house at do PANCAKES !!! (Instead of the cold cereal I had planned) Hey, sounds great !! |
