Our happy family

Hello guys,

We've had a couple of fun weeks. On Sunday, July 16th
all of Blair's family was over at his parents house
(except Reed & family) to plan our camping trip to the
Uintahs over the 24th of July weekend. All of us
adults were inside planning and the kids were in the
front yard playing. At 8:30 we went out to load up in
the cars, and we couldn't find Marah anywhere. I
guess she had been playing with a little girl in the
neighborhood (a girl who is always wandering) and I
guess the two of them had gone for a little walk, down
the street over to Main Street and some lady had seen
them trying to cross main street and called the
police. We were looking everywhere to try to find
them. Finally it was getting dark and there was no
sign of them anywhere so we called the police and they
had them over at the police station. We we got their
to pick up Marah, she just ran up to us all full of
smiles and it was like nothing had happened. I don't
think she comprehended what happened. Now I make sure
I watch her extra good and don't let her out of my
eyesight, which is pretty hard because she is so quite
and it very good at getting out the house and always
wants to be going somewhere. Denice calls her our
juvenile delinquent.

Well our camping trip was a resounding success -
everyone enjoyed spending time together and it was
good to get out of the 100 plus degree temperatures to
high 80's. The hit of the trip was cliff jumping at
Wall Lake. It was just like swimming in our pond.
The cliff was about 25 feet and it was a lot of fun.
We just put lifejackets on the kids and they jumped
off the side into the water. Keturah got a fish hook
stuck in the top of her 1st 2 toes when she was trying
to skip rocks on Trial Lake and Blair had to push the
barb through her skin so he could cut it off and
Alaina got some big scraps on her stomach and arms
from a bike wreck and we got eatten alive by
mosquitoes - we can to go by the expensive mosquito
spray that was almost 100% deet - but other than that
it was great.

Charles is crazy man now. He likes to make his hands
in fists and tighten up all his muscles, clench his
non-existent teeth and make his face all red. He is
alos very vocal now and has an ear-piercing scream.
He screams and then laughs because he thinks he sounds
cool. He is very much into noise and loves banging on
things - he pulls the pans out the cubboard to bang on
them or the metal chairs at church so everyone turns
around and gives disapproving looks and he loves to
drop things off his highchair to hear them hit the
ground. He does have his 1st tooth - Nicole
discovered it up at camping. It's on the top so we
didn't even know he had it. He can also stand by
himself for a 1/2 a minute to a minute.

Blair is liking his new job. He's doing a lot of
programing to get a web-based server going. It's just
nice not having to do carpet all the time.

We will get our new windows put in our house this next
week so that will be exciting. We got a nice rain
storm on Tuesday that was quite a downpour - nothing
like the flood that went behind Mom & Dad's place but
a blessing no-the-less and it helped to bring the
temperatures down. We've been able to open the
windows at night again and actually be able to go
outside in the middle of the day w/o sweating.

It's exciting to hear about your house Aaron. Wish
Naomi luck w/ school starting on the 14th.

Love Martha