Merthan and Vonnie Ellis Family Reunion

Summer 2011

This year Great Grandma and Grandpa Ellis had their family reunion over in Utah. We all went and camped at a really nice camp site. It had grass and everything. Lance really loved his big girl cousins, Hallie and Jaccee. It was hard for me because Lance is just at the age where he is big enough to walk and get away fast but he does not have the fear of getting lost. So I spent the whole reunion trying to keep my eye on him and still interact with people. What was worse was there was a really fast river that ran right by our camp ground. One morning I went to the bathroom and go caught talking to someone. He was sitting and playing in the dirt right under my feet. But in the next second he was gone. It scared me so bad, I just knew he was in the river somewhere. We all started looking for him and I was screaming for him, then we found him in My cousin Shallic's van.

Officer Mamorial

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This was an event where we all went to honor the fallen officers. It was really cool, they had bag pipes, trumpets played by brother Aurters and his son, colors guard ceremony, and some speakers. Dad was one of them. It was a very well done ceremony. They also had this thing where they shot the shot guns into the air. What impressed me was just how many officers showed up and how it made me feel to see them all together as a team. Berny really is a part of something great. It has a lot of down sides but a man who survives  law enforcement, physically, emotionally and spiritually has the ability to really make a great man. A captain Moroni kind of man.

Whitney in a Tree

This was Whitney up in her tree the summer of 2011. She really liked to sit up there because I think it made her feel like Pocahontas.

Half Marathon in Boise

These are about a year old now but I need to catch up on my blog. This was was when Johanna, Matthew, and Mollie ran a half Marathon over in Boise! I was so impressed with them they did so well. Matthew didn't even train for it. That boy does not feel pain!!

This is Johanna spinting to the finish line. This is always my favorite part, but I cried like a baby when I saw my siblings do it.

Mollie was the one that got us all started on running!!

Mothers Day

This was a great mothers day. We have some neighbors that are Hispanic, and they don't speak any English. I have really tried to get to know them but the times I have tried to talk with my Spanish I end up calling cookies, spoons. I need to practice more ! So since I can't speak very well I just make them this like cookies and bread. I didn't think that I was getting through to them at all but on mothers day they brought me these flower. It was pretty cool. Here is Lance dressing like daddy and daddy game me a BBQ grill. It was a good mothers day.

The 4th of July

This year for the 4th of July we went to Richfield and spent it with Toinette and Jim Kennison and Grandma and Grandpa Debbie. We had a really yummy dinner, like we always do at the Kennison's. They always have the best food. Then when it go dark we set off some of the fireworks that Berny has bought, then we watched the ones that were going off in town from out in the country.





This year for the 4th of July we went to Richfield and spent it with Tonette and Jim Kennison and Grandma and Grandpa Debbie. We had a really yummy dinner, like we always do at the Kennison's. They always have the best food. Then when it go dark we set off some of the fir

Playing in the Mud

I went to check on the kids when they were playing outside because it was one of those times that it got really quiet so I knew that they were up to no good. When I went out I saw they were both covered in mud. I later found the culprit. Whitney had been bringing water out and dumping it in a hole they had dug. Lance really capitalized on that and started putting his feet in it so They made a bigger hole. By the time I came into the story this is what I found.