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.