Baby Jade's Blessing

Luckily while we were in Utah Deena and Harley blessed Jade. I've been feeling a bit left out on these special days since I chose to move so far away from home... : ) And out of 13 grandkids I have only been to 3 baby blessings (and that includes Jade's). I loved catching up with Harley's side of the Family. It's been years since I've seen them!

Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of Jade in her blessing dress but I did get some pictures of her.
This is how it'll be whenever I have baby #2 although Kylie will be MUCH bigger by then. Oh and just for bragging rights - I made both of the babies hairbows. While I was home I taught Deena and Melanie how to make them and I think we're all addicted to making them now.

Love this picture of these two. My sister has a HUGE mirror in her entryway and Avery was running to it with Kylie and holy cow did she love it!!

Someday this will be us. I have no idea what Kylie's doing here

These are the '08 grandbabies and yes Kylie is the only one not crying. Garrett started it and then I think Kylie crowded both Drew and Fiona a little and made them cry too.

Family Pictures

While in Utah my parents wanted an updated Family picture, which was much needed. The last time we had a Family picture taken Kevin and I were single and I think we had 6 or 7 grandkids and now Kevin and I are finally married and we're up to 14 grandkids.
It was a lot of fun to get dressed up and make a couple of hairbows (one for Jade and one for Kylie). We ended up going across the street from the Mt Timanogos Temple and it ended up being the perfect place. I love how green the background turned out. My parents with all their grandkids - they couldn't love these kids more!

The Fullmer kids with spouses and my parents

The Fullmer Fam

The Kirk Family

Everyone

More Utah Vacation - Kennecott Copper Mine

So I might be just a little behind on my blog and have a few minutes so decided to start updating again. On August 8th we headed up to Kennecott Copper Mines with my Family to continue with our Family Reunion. What a unique place. Here's a few facts I learned that day:

• If you stretched out all the roads in the open pit mine, you'd have 500 miles of roadway - enough to reach from Salt Lake City to Denver.
• The trucks that haul the ore are larger than many houses and weigh more than a jumbo jet. They stand over 23 feet tall and can carry from 255 to 360 tons of rock.
• The truck driver rides about 18 feet above the ground -- nearly two stories high.
• The mine is so big, it can be seen by the space shuttle astronauts as they pass over the United States.

My Dad, Harley, Avery and Kylie

One of the very large trucks they use to haul the copper

This is a comparison picture - the tiny white truck is a full size pickup you'd see on public roads

All the grandkids plus Aunt Deena and Uncle Kevin. That is the actual sized tire used on the large trucks

Our little family

This is the Place

August 7th marked the first day of our Fullmer Family reunion so we headed up to This Is The Place Heritage Park. It's the place where the Mormon Pioneers first entered the Salt Lake Valley. We had a good time walking around to the Villages and riding in the Train around the village. A few of us even tried our hand in a craft or two and enjoyed some penny candy. We had a wonderful picnic my parents put together and of course enjoyed spending quality time together has a Family.

To find out more info go to their website: http://www.thisistheplace.org

Side view of the This is the Place Monument. I never did get a full front view...

Kylie and cousin Drew rode around in the double stroller all day. They really had the life. Aren't they cute!

Kylie and Avery with a friendly goat

She wasn't sure what to think of those goats

Kylie didn't love the pony ride so much. I seriously thought she was gonna jump off

Kylie and Grandma Moffat

Grandma Moffat loved having Kylie around the house. They took lots of naps together, fought over Grandmas cane frequently and Kylie learned a few new words from her. Kylie now says "Hello", "No", and "no no no" I love that Kylie took such a liking to my Grandma cuz we just don't know how long we will have her around. She's definitely getting worse with age but she really is a crack up.

Kylie sure loved to take her cane away, they played tug-o-war with it a handful of times. Kylie also loved to stand up to her table by the chair and play with the tape recorder and telephone. Grandma Moffat didn't like that much but Kylie sure loved to tease her.

Thanksgiving Point

Through the month of August Thanksgiving Point has $2 Tuesday. Basically, you can get into either Noah's Ark (a fun wadding pool), The Gardens, or the Dinosaur Museum for $2 each. The first Tuesday it was offered we decided to take advantage and head to the Gardens then cool off at Noah's Ark (which we ended up getting into for free). Kylie had a great time riding in her stroller and spending time with her Grandma Fullmer and of course her Aunt Deena and cousins.

The kids

Love this waterfall at The Gardens in the Amphitheater. The picture doesn't do it justice - that's only one of the falls

She was loving this stroller we rented there. We really need to get her a better stroller...

Lagoon for dinner

The same day we went to the Temple Open House we also drove to Lagoon's RV park and had dinner with my brother Heath, Deanah and Family and their friends. My sister Deena, Harley and Family also made the drive up. It was yummy - Heath and Deanah made us Fajitas on their big camping grill. Thanks you guys for the fun evening! Heath and Chet (my nephew) were sword fighting

Kenidee (neice) attempting a picture holding Kylie

Braden, Brenna, Corrin posing for a picture in the camp trailer

Kenidee, Lucee, Braden, Brenna, Corrin, and Kylie