After flying all night and landing in Utah on June 22, we went to see this cutie patootie and her family for 3 days. We played, boated and enjoyed our first days of HEAT in a year (it was 50s and raining when we left Alaska, and its been 50s and rain for all but one of the 5 days we have been back).
OK I tried to post this at the end, but here it is. The Amazing Mitch has been wakeboarding for 15 years (or more) and finally has his own boat to take out all the time and practice on! Sadly he broke his ankle just this past Saturday doing more amazing things on a wakeboard and is out the rest of the season! PS he can do cool stuff like this on snow skis and so can his brother...my own husband!
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| Olivia and Marin talk about each other all the time. And with cute letters in the mail to each other and the occasional Skype and phone calls, the girls keep in touch. Marin blesses the people in Alaska in her prayers and bystanders who don't know where we live think she just has a soft spot in her heart for those who live in the 49th state. |
One of the things JaDee and I always wanted for our kids was to be as good of friends with their cousins as JaDee is with his. The 26 McNiven cousins grew up like one big pack of brothers and sisters. So to start of our trip we went to Logan to visit Mitch's brother and his family. Since they just had a new baby Mitch wasn't coming along for the Trek reunion or joining us on the farm, so Olivia and Marin had to steal a few days together. They are so cute. Ethan played with them a ton and when the other 5 year old cousin (a boy) showed up, the girls were over heard "marrying" him in their games of house. JaDee remembers many a game marrying his cousins as the only boy in the pack of girl cousins his age too!
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| I also had to bring the new little man his present. I made this quilt for Andrew. He is the first of my nephews or nieces to ever get a quilt made by me. The rest have to wait til they get married. |
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| Boating!!! |
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| This was the only happy picture on the tube. Shortly after this shot the tube got swamped. Olivia fell head first overboard, Marin got left behind several yards behind the tube. Ethan and Carter held on but Carter had to put his Boy Scout Lifesaving Merit badge to the test! After rescuing Olivia and getting her on the raft (crying hysterically), Carter dove in and swam out to Marin and got her safely to the boat. Yeah, we never got Olivia on a tube the rest of the trip. I got up on the wakeboard on the second try after almost 8 years since the last time I did it and cruised along nicely. I even made it out of the wake! I have those pictures somewhere.... |
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| oh here it is... |
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| Teaching Andrew the finer points of being a boy, since all he has is 2 older sisters. |
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| The Moncur Crew! |
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4 comments:
I heard that Mitch broke his ankle, that is a bummer! Do you think he will think twice about some of the crazy stuff he does next year?
GREAT job getting up on the wakeboard. I don't wakeboard... I don't even like to get in the water!!! I'll tube and then I'll cream everyone because I'm so afraid of the water that my grip is IRON. :D haha - poor Olivia! I hope she isn't scarred for life! Looks like such a fun family trip. :)
Love it! Love all of the pictures that I will steal, and loved having the Alaska crew visit!
It was fun to see you guys! Cute pictures, but I have to say that first one of Olivia and Marin looks like you were threatening them with something horrible if they didn't smile for the picture :)
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