DrewKari and Kids

Another Summer Afternoon

2011-08-14T23:48:00.000-07:00

Spring Baseball

2011-08-14T23:42:00.001-07:00

Ethan's first season of spring baseball.

Kimberly looking on from the sidelines.

2011-03-30T23:25:00.000-07:00

Life is ever busy, here is to remembering a wonderful, RELAXING, time.

ThAnKsGiving 2010.

Kimberly especially misses her clear nose. She's usually a little stuffy (allergies, dry weather, I don't know why) but here she was forever clear, and when we arrived home I am not kidding 12hrs later.... Stuffy.

Ethan loved being outside in the warm weather.

Perfect weather 80 degrees by day 60 degrees at night. Ethan is all boy.

He loved hiking, snorkeling, swimming, and seeing fish through the clear water.

View each morning from our window. Not to bad. Andrew and I were really trying hard to see how we could manage to live here.

One day just our family went on a beautiful hike on the other side of the island.

Evie misses the water. She'd live in the ocean if she had gills.

This is my favorite picture.

Emma chose her hiking attire. She misses the sand and dirt.

She'd play in sand and find any and all sorts of treasures.

Our last sunset there. It was sooo hard to head home.

It was the first vacation where I really didn't want to leave.

Found in the forest. Yep no snakes, bear, lions, my kind of place.

And no we just took this cool picture, no sampling was involved.

All the grandchildren minus one (Kimberly). Evie was done with pictures. You could only imagine how many we took (I think we filled 2 or 3 cards), and we wished we could have taken more, but with two small ones it was rather tricky.

One of my favorite shots. On the road to Hana. BEAUTIFULL!!

View from a hike to a blow hole.

Ok. Put me in black and white, and make it fuzzy, not too bad.

Dream vacations do come true. Thanks Dad, Mom, Karen & Sandy.

I have never felt so famous before. People were starring at us like crazy like we had 11 kids with us or something. You could see them trying to count how many.

Some may ask how life is now that we have 4. ... I say BUSY, & WONDERFUL.

I don't know how to post the pictures in the right order, hence this entire post is backwards, but one good thing about a yard with LOTS of leaves. While raking I remembered houses my dear friend Karen & I would make growing up, and the kids loved helping me rake this creation.

Something about the baby of the family.

We have kindred spirits, both being the youngest.

Crocodile Tears

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Sad eyes!

Happy eyes!

Kimberly has always had really expressive eyes.

She is almost always happy. We all love her a lot.

First Day of Preschool!

2010-11-06T00:08:00.000-07:00

Melon Days - 2 months ago

2010-11-06T00:00:00.000-07:00

We had a great time!

One of the following people does not know how to "pretend" to eat watermelon; and yes, kissing the side of the melon slice does count as pretending to eat.

A couple more random pics from Melon Days.

Summer Vacation - Part II

2010-07-18T15:05:00.000-07:00

So here are some random photos of our recent trip to Oceanside.

We spent almost the entire week playing on the beach, and in the sand.

The kids thought these water bins were almost as much fun as the ocean.

We had to keep a close eye on Evie, she was always plotting an escape.

Evie on the run.

This is how Kimberly enjoyed her vacation.

It was fun to take the kids on a few boogie board rides.

On our last beach day we finally got to see a really nice sunset.

Here's our little family.

Here's the big family.

Summer vacation 2010 - part 1

2010-06-28T23:55:00.000-07:00

So people say that bad luck comes in groups of three. This is not true, because we have found recently that bad luck actually comes in groups of 2-1/2, or so it was with our family vacation earlier this month.

Everything started out great. I rode the train in to work, and Kari sent the twins off with Grandma and Grandpa for the trip to San Diego. We would be taking our Camry in order to save some money on gas. We weren't even planning on going for several reasons, but the foamy, blueish grey temptation of ocean water was too great in the end. So Kari picked me up after work and we started the drive down with Evie and Kimberly in the Camry. We knew that we would be getting to our hotel in Las Vegas at around 1 am, which is fine because the party would just be starting in LV around that time. We soon got invited to a totally different party when we hit a doozy of a traffic jam about 70 miles away from Las Vegas. Five motorcyclists went down on the freeway about two miles ahead of where we ended up stopping. The stoppage didn't mobilize for 4 hours. We hit the jam at 11:30 pm, we passed the wreck at 3:30 am, and we got to our hotel at 4:30 am.

At this point we had racked up 1-1/2 bad luck points, and the traffic jam was only the 1/2. I say it was a 1/2 because it was actually good for our car that we stopped. Earlier that same day Kari had taken the car to Jiffy Lube in Kaysville for the scheduled oil change, and they had messed up something that had caused us to lose essentially all of the oil in our engine. When we stopped at the traffic jam we immediately noticed billows of white smoke glowing in the headlights of the car behind us. So we were then able to start fixing the problem. The problem ended up being that the filter was never tightened, they only started the threads but never tightened it. This shouldn't be too hard considering that oil filters only have to be hand-tight. My father- and brother-in-law drove out to see if we were okay in the middle of the desert, which was very nice, and it did help us a lot to have them there for support. A nice semi-truck driver also donated some oil to help us get back to LV without causing further damage to our engine. I know the oil had to be really low, because we added a little over 4 quarts of oil to the engine. The crappy Jiffy Lube service racked up 1 bad luck point all by itself.

So with 1-1/2 bad luck points we made it in to Oceanside on Saturday. We had a great night and another great day on Sunday, it was really nice. On Monday all of us were really anxious to start playing in the ocean. As soon as we had eaten breakfast and covered everyone with sunblock we headed out to play. The kids spent a couple hours playing in the sand and we gradually went deeper and deeper in to the water. In an attempt to give Ethan a taste of the bigger waves, I picked him up and we went out to some water that was a little over knee-deep on me. Ethan took a couple turns of me plopping him down in the water, which came up almost to his chest, and then scooping him up right before the white-water came crashing over him. When he had had enough we started to head back to the beach. I had taken a couple steps in when I felt a wickedly, nasty pain shoot through my right foot. I immediately thought I had stepped on glass. But the pain kept on growing as I stammered through the little waves, still holding Ethan, so that scenario didn't make sense. I couldn't think clearly enough to figure out what had happened, I do remember slapping the side of my foot because at one point in time I honestly thought that I had some sort of crustacean exercising a death-grip on my foot. I made it to sand pretty quickly, and my in-laws and I started to try and figure out what had happened. My foot now had a steady stream of blood running out of a little puncture wound that was surrounded by an swollen lump of muscle and skin, and the pain in my foot was quickly becoming worse. I don't remember exactly how it came up, but for a bunch of non-ocean-animal-associated people it didn't take us very long to figure out that I had likely stepped on a Stingray. We looked up first aid for Stingray stings and everyone was extremely helpful in attending to my aid. We even managed to flag down the Lifeguards and they came in to take a look at my foot. They confirmed that it was a Stingray sting. They even said that stingray stings are a fairly common (even daily) occurrence along the beaches of San Diego county.

The sting did a number on my foot, it became a pretty cool little sign of my outward strength and machismo. But really the truth of it is that I nearly broke down into sobs several times, and it was only my family member's quick help that kept me from embarrassing myself and my man-dignity.

Rack up one final point for the Stingray encounter, and there you have the 2-1/2 bad luck points. We had fulfilled some sort of bad-luck karma at this point, and the rest of the vacation was awesome.

Oh, and there will be another post which includes more than just gross pictures of my foot.

Littlest One

2010-05-18T23:48:00.000-07:00

Here's our new little Kimberly Maye.

May 13th, 2010

7 lbs - 4 oz and 20 in long

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Okay! So here you go a catch up on the last 7 months.

Ethan
Loves anything boy, playing with cousins or friends and loves learning new things. He is always asking questions.

Ethan wants to do and be just like his dad. Andrew loves taking pictures so Ethan went outside with his camera to get some close ups too.

Emma
Loves girlie stuff and will even play boy games cause Ethan won't give in and play girlie games.

Emma loves being all girl. Makeup, perfume, jewelry, and playing dress ups with her cousins. She always looks out for her sister and brother.

Evie
Our ball of sunshine. She is growing so fast and loves doing everything Ethan and Emma do. She is learning too fast how to be big.

Ethan and Emma turned 4 and we had both our families to the Tree-house Museum and dinner.

They picked out treats and decorated their own cakes.

For Andrew's birthday we went sledding and the kids loved it. Too bad our winter was really mild.

It was really fun having Tony, Jenny, and Mason here for Christmas. We miss you!

Christmas at the Cheshire's home. All the grandkids love Grandpa's train.

We did Christmas morning at our home this year and it was a blast. I love kids and the whole Christmas spirit. It just keeps on getting better each year.

Andrew and siblings.
Andrew, Tony, Tiffany, & Janica

The Roane clan. Always fun, always something memorable.

Okay so this is what a picture of all the grandkids really looks like.

Here's our best shot.

Evie turned one.

This barn is right by our house and is so fun to look at. Andrew finally had his camera and was able to get this shot. I love it.

Ten for Tuesday - Halloween 2009

2009-11-10T19:33:00.001-08:00

Happy Halloween to everyone!

Two happy little pumpkin butchers.

Two butchered pumpkins...not three. It seems that Emma's pumpkin got kicked in to the bushes by some heartless, punk kid. It was that or maybe it was accidentally sabotaged by a blind kid who happened to swat the little pumpkin off our steps as he felt his way up to our doorway with his cane. If it was a courageous little blind child, then I forgive you, and I applaud your efforts to live a full and happy childhood.

A cowboy and a ballerina.

Monkey.

The leaves are almost all gone, now we need to see some snow!

We told the kids to throw a big handful of leaves in the air, I was surprised to see how high they got them.

Evie had fun watching the twins play in the leaves.

Sunset over the Oquirrh mountains, taken a couple weeks ago on the way to Ikea.

Misc pictures

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This is Uncle Roger and Aunt Suzanne's dog, Burt.

This is what Evie does when she wakes up. I went in there the other day and found her just laying on her belly, peeking over her crib pad while she waited for someone to come in.

Ethan named his stick-horse 'Coyote'.

Emma almost never takes a nap anymore, so I thought I should capture the moment while I still could.

We caught a glimpse of an impressive lightning storm as we headed home last Sunday. We took this picture in an empty lot by our house in Layton. It shows some lighting striking close to Weber canyon.

Lagoon Day 2009

2009-09-19T08:42:00.000-07:00

We took the kids to Lagoon for their first time and they loved it. We were surprised by how well they handled the rides. They said their favorite ride was the Egg Drop and Ladybug ride. We even got stuck when the old Log Ride broke right before we were going to start heading up the last hill to the splash pool. We were stuck for about 15 minutes, but Lagoon took care of us and gave us 6 free ice cream cones after we agreed not to take legal action against them.

We finished the day on the Skycoaster, this was Evie's first and last ride of the day.

Nobody had more fun than Kam.

BIRTHDAY TIME!!!

2009-09-13T21:38:00.000-07:00

We are still working on updating our pics from July.

We had a combo party for Dad and Janica.

And then Jimmy turned 2.

Bennett logged in some flying time.

Karen turned 29!!

After the party the kids were given glo-sticks to play with. This picture shows two glo-adorned cousins two-stepping it in the Cheshire's back yard.

And finally, the cutest baby in the world grew enough hair to let her parents give her a mini cream cone hair style.

Updating for July - Part 1

2009-08-20T22:51:00.000-07:00

We did a lot of fun things in July, so here is what we did over the 4th of July weekend.

Hyrum City fireworks.

Waterfight.

Kam demonstrates proper form on the slip-n-slide.

Hyrum city parade.

Multiples.

Emma saying, "Look what I can do."

Attacking Papa Duke.

Stroller Queen.

2009-07-17T09:42:00.000-07:00

JUNE

All of the Roane cousins.
Evie, Benny, Emma, Jimmy, Ethan, and Mason

Bet you'd never guess that they're only 10 days apart.

Benny turns 1!

Loved the cake, hated the sticky frosting.

The party was at Benny's grandpa's house and he had this fun tractor that the kids loved.

Ethan loved playing with these boys. I don't think he ever really hit the ball, but it was so fun watching him play.

One of my favorite places in the world is My parents house. My parents worked really hard and created a fun and relaxing yard.
While the kids play...

We relax.. and play to.

Gotta love Kam.

We had a new addition to the Cheshire family.
Jason and Heather had Tya Jase on June 5 (My moms birthday).

Kyndlee got to come and play with us.

When daddy gives the bath.

Emma and Ethan's silly faces.

June was actually quite rainy, but we were able to catch a sunny day.

Evie.

Evie loves reading books. She gets so excited and she can even turn the page. It's really cute.

2009-07-09T09:44:00.000-07:00

Okay So we forget about our blog occasionally. This is what we've been up to.

May

We're on our way! We went to Moab with the Roanes. Way fun, and too short.

Hole in the Rock.

Home Sweet Home!

A hiking we will go, a hiking we will go, high ho.....

They need to call these baby chewies.

Uncle Matt and Jimmy "flyin high"

Uncle Eric AKA Mountain Goat

Uncle Tony and Mason

While part of the group went to the Firey Furnace. The kids and I found this fun park.

Dead Horse Point.

Arches.

Tune in next time for June...

New photo download link

2009-04-08T23:10:00.000-07:00

I've added a link to my Skydrive account. (Top of the list, on the right.) It's just an online storage site. I'll be sticking pictures over there if anyone is interested. You can view the photos, or download the full resolution images for your own records, or for printing.

Updated family image

2009-03-15T16:59:00.000-07:00

We just updated our blog header, I got tired of being the only stick-person in my family.

Happy shutter finger

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Just some random images of our family.

Catch up!

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Just the three of us!
So I tried to put a sheet behind to make it all nice, but as you can tell I struggled a bit. The sheet kept on falling, so I gave up and just took the picture.
Andrew laying down the last piece of our wood floor, and Ethan making sure he did it right. Great work dad! I love our floor.
Good morning sunshine!
Evelyn's first bath. We had just moved and couldn't find ducky tub. Good news is we have now found ducky.
Ethan loves Evelyn. We have to keep on telling him to scoot back and give her some room.
One bear cub heading home.
Proud daddy.

Evelyn Jan

December 19, 2008
7 lbs 4 oz 22"

Some Summer Shots

2008-09-18T20:15:00.000-07:00

Handcart Days parade in our hometown.

Cheesy 1

Cheesy 2

We took the kids mini-golfing a few weeks ago, and Ethan stole the
show by being the only person to get a hole-in-one.

Summer Drive Up Lambs Canyon

2008-09-04T07:49:00.000-07:00

Chip Off the Old Block

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Ride The Train

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The Roane-Rawson clan set out to enjoy our new commuter rail, and we did, after waiting in line for just a little long while.

Woo, woo!

Spring Shot

2008-04-22T23:23:00.000-07:00

Spring has slowly been coming and going around here. These are some shots I took a couple weeks ago of our crocus'. There are even a few action shots of our local honeybees.

Kid Clips

2008-03-09T00:57:00.000-08:00

Here are some random, current pictures of the cute kids we get to have in our family.

Ethan's first sledding trip. (Emma and Kari were there also.)

Movie party with the cousins.

Jimmy in the toy box.

Time to Start

2007-10-24T22:57:00.000-07:00

I'm 26 years old, and this is my first blog. Do I need to say more?