Nate Posts (hope you dont mind Catherine)

Hey Catherine and Friends,

Hope you dont mind me posting here. I have tried blogging and have never managed to get past a few posts. Catherine is keeping up a good thing here so rather then trying to keep up a blog of my own maybe I can tag along and post a few here or there.

Im sitting in a hotel in Atlanta on a business conference. Im wishing I were home with the family eating breakfast for dinner. Being away makes you appreciate what you have. Man I love my family! Anyway I was bored and as I was looking at Catherines posts I wanted to comment on what was going on. I thought I might as well just make this a family blog :)

Here is a picture from the flight to Atlanta. Its amazing to be in the air looking down at how small and insignificant everything seems.

Here is an addendum to things Cody doesnt like to eat. His DINNER and surprising as it seems... Cotton Candy?

Cody and the Praying Mantis...

Nate got some good pictures of Cody making a new friend... untill it jumped on his head!

Camped Out!

In August we went camping as a family 3 weekends in a row, 4 for me because of girls camp, and I think I am done camping for the year! The first camping trip was to Bear Lake for a weekend of fun on the beach, but it was a little cooler than we'd expected, luckily we were prepared!

It was a lot of fun, and the next weekend was the elders quorum camp out at Perception Point. We had fun playing volleyball with everyone, and making super messy smores. Not so much fun listening to our boys cry half the night.

The next weekend was our annual Labor Day camp out with my family in the Uintahs. We went to my parents' stakes property at Lake Lyman. We got to do some canoeing, hiking, fishing, napping, playing with cousins, chasing squirrels, and a lot of chasing the boys around and wiping the dirt off them!

This is the picture Nate got of the squirrel that was protesting our camping by chucking pine cones at us the whole time we were there. Mostly at my Dad's truck, which was really loud when they hit! You can see the pine cone it just released during one of it's assaults!

We hiked and Neil napped, shots of the fishermen, Uncle Daniel in the hammock with Cody, Neil chasing Bradley, and the view in the evening of Lake Lyman!

Snowbird 2008

We went to Snowbird in July with my family and had a lot of fun! We swam alot, went on the Alpine Slide, the ski lift, and the tram! I also climbed the wall outside the Cliff Lodge, a 20 story building, and made it to the top in just over 9 minutes! That's good for me, last time I climbed that wall it took me almost 30 minutes! It takes my little brother Daniel between 3-4 minutes. My arms were so sore for the next few days! This is me going up the wall and Daniel repelling back down. Yeah, it's a big wall!

Here's Cody having fun in the pool getting tossed around, and Neil and Grandma Watt having fun at the playground, Grandma getting tossed around!

This is Cody and me going to the top of the alpine slide, and coming back down. Luckily there's no pictures of us waiting in the line at the top for an hour! Also brother-in-law Andrew Butcher riding to the top with his daughter Abbi, my sister Angie, her husband Bruce, and son Bradley Floyd, my other sister Kim Butcher with Jaron Floyd, and bringing up the rear, Karlee Floyd, all riding down. Karlee doesn't look like she's having much fun!

Cody went again another day with Nate, my Mom and Dad, definately all enjoying the ride! What was wrong with Karlee's ride?

This is the group in our annual pose outside the condo on the way out, saying goodbye to Snowbird and each other.

Neil needs a haircut.

2 Things Cody doesn't like to eat:

Pop Rocks and sand. We got some really funny pictures while discovering both of these this summer, the second courtesy of the new sand in Grandpa Tanners sand box. Notice the quick recovery in both instances!

We also made another discover over the summer, an uncanny resemblance...

Summer Fun with Grandma Great!

Great Grandma Tanner had a summer- fun Great-Grandkid, (plus parents)- party at the end of June. It was fun to get all the little cousins together to hang out and relax, eat and swim! It was SO funny to watch Neil, he couldn't get enough of the sprinkler, and Cody couldn't eat his popcicle fast enough. Really, he didn't. Half of it melted/ fused with his hand and it was stained orange for a week!