Sooner or Slater: October 2009

This summer we went camping at Rock Creek our favorite place to camp. We are so lucky to live so close to the mountains. Every year we take a little hike up to the top of the Upper Still Water Dam. This year we went a few more miles to the top of the reservior. It's such a beautiful place to hike.

Leslie, Me, & Randy

The Family

When we got to the top of the reservior, we couldn't believe how low the water was. Usally the water covers all of the rocks the kids are playing on in these pictures

Jon

Skylar, Annie, Ellie, River

Ali, Laynie

Dad & Brad

River & Ellie

One day we drove over to Moon Lake. It was so cold some of us were a little happier than others to be there.

This is a picture of me and my friend Sherron. Our parents have been friends forever, when we were little our parents would take us camping to Moon Lake.

Who said that you can't have fun in a tiny little blow-up pool? It's the best 10 dollars I spent all summer. River came to play a few days this summer. They spent a lot of time in our back yard playing in this little pool.

River, Laynie, Ellie

Ellie as "Water Girl"

Laynie

Ellie

River

Laynie

Ellie, River, Laynie

Laynie's 2nd birthday. Laynie was lucky she got to have two bithday party's this year. On her birthday we had a party at Grandma & Grandpa Hansen's house.

Ellie, Katie, Laynie, Annie, River, Skylar

A few days before her birthday we had a party at her Grandma & Grandpa Slater's.

This summer Ellie played coach pitch. There really isn't a lot to say except she HATED every minute of it. She was such a good sport to stick it out the whole season.

The past two summers, Jon has taken a trip tp Colorado to watch the Rockies play. He loves baseball and he looks forward to it all year long. This year he had to go to Minnisoda and Kansas City for work. He was lucky, both the Twins and the Royles were in town while he was there. So he got to see both teams play.

Annie's 12th birthday, I can't believe how fast time has gone by. For Annie's birthday she wanted to go shopping at the mall. We had so much fun. She loved getting new clothes and I loved watching how excited she was. The best part about turning 12 for Annie was that she got to go to Young Womens. Her birthday was a week before girls camp, I had a girls camp calling so I got to go with her. We had a blast I will never forget it.

We had a little problem with somesomes hand in Annie's cake. It was okay it got fixed. (This might be hard to believe but it wasn't Laynie's hand.)

Skylar, Katie, Ellie, Annie, Rylee, River, Laynie and Grandma

Jon's parents are serving a mission at the Heber Valley Girls Camp. We went to visit them over Memorial weekend. They have all kinds of fun activities to do there. My girls loved the zip line. It was a lot of fun. The girls love to be with their cousins. They had a blast.