John and I took a trip to Arches National Park for his Birthday in March. Here's a few of my favorite pictures from the bunch. John is the wonderful photographer. I'm eager to have a new wallpaper on my computer monitor!!

We are planning a camping trip to go watch a meteor shower. If anyone wants to come, we picked the spot specifically so there could be motorbikes and 4-wheel activities during the day.. We'll be camping the 7,8 and 9th of August at a place called Skyline Drive... somewhere out in the desert. Let me know if you'd like to come!!

fireworks with the Dunn's

Here's some fun pictures from July 4th at Grandma and Grandpa Dunn's house.
This was the day when we tried sooooo hard to go sailing and the wind just didn't cooperate. John and I were meeting Dad, Jenni, Josh and kids at Deer Creek Reservoir. When they got there, the water was too low to even launch the boat. We decided to try to go down Provo Canyon and rent a tube or two to ride down the river. I don't think I've EVER seen that canyon so full of people! After driving around and seeking tubes to rent that wouldn't break the bank, we cried "Uncle!" and went home for a barbeque and fireworks on the driveway.

In spite of all the mishaps of the day, we had a relaxing, enjoyable evening with each other.

The Hulse's

Okay everybody here are the latest pictures of our family, or at least our kids, I don't have any recent family pictures but when we get one done I'll post it.

Morgan 6 years old

Jordyn 3 1/2 Years old

Kaden 4 months old

Hmmn.

No new posts? I must have scared everyone off?

Us. :)

Our Daughter-4.75 years

Tender Heart- 3 years

Baby Boy - 19 months

This is us in Lava Hot Springs in June of this year. :) Lame that's the best family photo we have right now, but better than nothing.

We were lucky enough to be able to make a trip to Twin Falls, last weekend. It was so good to see Grandma, and I'm SO glad to hear she is continuing to do better and better. Josh, John and Dad got some good yard work done, and we got to spend some time with almost everyone. Thanks to Cathy for letting us make thier house crazy for a few days, and to everyone for entertaining and visiting with us! We love you and wish we were able to come up and visit more often.

***This post was inspired by Uncle Randy, he said he wished we'd all post pics of the kids, with ages, and/or a family pic. :) ***

** I'm a paranoid person about putting our kids names out on the blog- any blog, so yeah, I'd be happy to send thier names in an email or something. But this scary world we live in has gotten to me, am I crazy? ***

Visiting Grandma

I'm posting this from Grandma & Grandpa's house. We came up to visit and to go to the temple open house. We just came from the hospital. Grandma was glad to see us. She said, "Hello Jessyka, you're a beautiful young lady." Grandpa said that's the most she's said all at once. Then she asked Jessyka what she's doing this summer. I'm so glad we came. As we were leaving we could hear Grandma talking more to Grandpa also. We're so glad she's improving. Grandpa said that today they're talking about her coming home possibly on Tuesday. That would be wonderful!

AI

Just had to share our fun experience last night. We are major fans (Ed, Jonathan, and I) of American Idol. The other two are fans but not gotta-watch-every-week kind of fans. We had the chance to go to the Top 10 Tour Concert. It was so fun! We had seats pretty close, with a really good view. Each person sang great songs, and, of course, David Archuletta, was great, and the crowd let him know they were happy to see him! Edward and I have been to some concerts in our time, but we both thought this definitely was the loudest we had heard in one. It was definitely a fun splurge!

Zachary is gone on a three-day camp - his last one with the Young Men group. Regarding mission prep, he has his acceptance letter in, passport on it's way, and he has his immunizations done. I think this mission is really happening!

Last Sunday Jonathan had an interview with the bishop to become an Elder, so that should be coming in the next while. He has expressed interest in going through the temple, so we will be working on that in the next while.

Next Monday Braden leaves for a week-long camp at Bear Lake. He is way excited and has been looking forward to this all summer. Edward will be joining him there for a few of the days. Braden just got done with a summer PE program that will free up one more period of the school day so he can take seminary and other electives he wants to participate in.

And . . . summer is going too fast!

Tired Girl

This is our little ball of energy Jordyn. She spends almost everyday bouncing off the walls, and then she just crashes. This day she fell asleep using the laundry basket for a pillow. Just thought I would share. I really have loved catching up on what everyone's family is up to, I'll try to keep you updated on our family too.

Hiking Question

Jenni, you mentioned Grandier Peak. Where is that at and how hard of a hike is it? Our family have not been hiking yet and need a nice hike - not like Becca was showing us, though! My guys have made that hike a time or two, but I'm just fine with seeing pictures, thank you very much!

SWIMMING LESSONS

Here's a little summary on what the Badgers have been up to lately. Our kids have been taking swimming lessons the last 2 weeks and have had a great time and have learned a lot. We also just finished up baseball for the kids. Tyson played T-Ball and had a super season and Kiara's team won the championship this year. That's a first for her, she has dancing trophies, but never baseball trophies. They played some great ball on their last game and managed to beat a really tough team. They had lost to that team twice in the regular season. They all got first place trophies and also had a lot of fun.

As a family we have been to Derkies Lake, and Balance Rock (as dad mentioned) and we had the opportunity to have Mom and Dad come up to Island Park, Quake Lake, and Yellowstone with us for the 4th of July. We saw a parade in West Yellowstone, went to an IMAX show about Lois and Clark and of couse saw fireworks. We had a good time - we haven't spent a weekend with Mom and Dad for a long time - they live so close we usually just make a day trip or afternoon of it. Hopefully, we didn't tire them out too much!!

Anyway, hopefully the rest of the summer will not be quite as busy. School will be back in session before we know it.

I think I've taken enough of everyones time, so I will go now, but would love to hear a little about each and every one of my aunts/uncles/cousins/brother/sister......come on, just write a little bit - it kind of makes you feel connected a little. I haven't been very good at keeping in contact with anyone, so this blog thing kind of makes up for it. I also check this blog several times a day hoping maybe someone will add something. With as many of us that are involved, we should be able to read something almost everyday!!

I'm with you Randy - I check quite often and it is so fun to see who has posted what. I'm not usually up at this hour (11:30 p.m.), but we just returned from Weber State in Ogden. The four of us (not Braden) went to a marching band competition of some of the best bands throughout the United States. Boy! Were they amazing! Zachary was in marching and regular band in high school and Jonathan was in band throughout his time, so we enjoy going to events like this one. We had a fun evening!

Our Fourth of July weekend was a busy and fun one. On Thursday afternoon we went to Twin and visited mom in the hopsital and was able to go to dinner with Dad and visit with him a little bit. I was glad we were able to incorporate that into the weekend. Then early Friday morning we drove on up to Driggs - got there just in time for the parade. It was an old-fashioned, small town parade, made all the more fun with several of Edward's family being in it. We then had fun visiting and seeing several of his family, and that evening going to fireworks and a movie that evening. The next day was a reunion with his mother's side of the family - some people he hadn't seen in 20 years or more - so it was nice to meet some of them and hear all about the "old times." We went to a fiddling contest in the morning, had lots of food, talking, and games. They play a game from their youth called CAT that at one of our reunions it might be fun to play.

I'm so glad mom is improving and is now over in rehab. I know it has been such a worry for Dad. Both of them are in our prayers and thoughts!

Well, it is now 5:30 p.m. on Friday. Finally, I'm getting this done!

I'll make a comment here - I like this blogging thing, but it's not like emailing and being able to talk back and forth quite as well -you can comment, but then you don't get comments back from the person you commented to . . . okay, so I'm old school . . . but does anybody else feel that way? :)

Busy times

I really dislike seeing too many days go by without seeing something on this sight. Everyone is on the go and things are happening, we all tend to think "Oh no one will be interested in this", but you know that really isn't true. If everyone else is like me, they enjoy hearing even little thoughts and ideas. It is just the idea of feeling the connection with the ones we love. We don't get to see or communicate with most of you very often and this just lets the rest of us see a little bit of you and yours. I know I am rambling on here, but I just wanted everyone to know how much I enjoy the opportunity to touch just a little bit of your lives, and know how things fare at your house.

Life the last couple of weeks has been hectic, but most of it has been fun. We had visits from Lynda and Tony, Sarah and Eric and even Aaron dropped in and said hi on his way to Vale, OR.

We visited Dierke's Lake, Balanced rock, Island Park and Yellowstone Park. We swam, hiked and just had us a great time being together.

Mom, (Grandma) had a stroke and has had a struggle, but is putting up a fight and seems to be improving daily. Her speech is getting better and she is getting stonger. She eats good and they say she is sleeping good. She has a long way to go, but she has always had a lot of faith and I know if she is supposed to get better the Lord will help her and with all our prayers she will be able to do as the Lord wants. We love her so much.


"Wherever we may be, our Heavenly Father can hear and answer the prayer offered in faith."
Thomas S. Monson - Ensign, Feb. 2001, 6

News from the Western Front

Hello everyone!! I sure is fun to read about everyone's news here on the blog!

I read it faithfully everyday... okay sometimes I visit numerous times to see if someone has posted throughout the day. So, It's time for me to stop lurking and post.

John and I are documenting all the "Scary" things I do when we go out and about in Nature... This first video is at Zion's National Park when we were climbing Angel's Landing. We didn't make it all the way to the end. This was the end of the hike for me. But now I can psych myself up to doing the rest of the hike next time we go, right? This was way back last November-- so you can tell we need to get some updated pictures downloaded from his camera so I can post some more recent pics.

Love to all!! Come home soon Grandma!! We'll see you next weekend!!

xoxoxo Becca

Meza vacation in Idaho

Our family took an 11 day vacation to Idaho(June22-July2). We stayed several nights with Tony's sister in Caldwell and several nights with Sarah and Mom and Dad. We had alot of fun visiting with family and the kids enjoyed playing with all their cousins. Brought back some memories for myself when I used to get together and play with my cousins. (Fun times!!) We wished we could visit everyone but time and GAS were also an issue. We miss you all and look forward to seeing you in the future. Don't forget Southwest Washington is a great place to visit. We also had time to stop and visit Grandpa and Grandma. I loved this pic and thought I'd share it with all of you.