FME

So the South Family has decided once a month to do Family Home Evening. On June 8th we decided to go down to Temple Square and see the Joseph Smith movie. Everyone was there except for Jacob who was in New Jersey or somewhere in the east states doing military training. Here are some pictures of that nice Sunday afternoon.

 

Family Reunions

So I think sometimes when the family starts planning family reunions, people in the family start to wonder "is it going to be any fun?" Well last year (I can't believe it will have been a year ago) any way last year at the end of July My Moms family decided to get together and do a family reunion since the last one that we did was... well I can't even remember. So they all worked really hard and what we did was a mock version of the Amazing Race. There are 6 kids in my moms family and each of them were Team Captains. They then took all the nieces, nephews, and in laws names and drew them out of a hat. So there ended up being abotu 8 to 9 people on a team.

We started in Mackay, Idaho where both my grandparents lived and we raced between Mackay and Arco trying to figure our clues and do tasks to get the next clue.

In Mackay we started at my grandparents gravesite and they had to run and grab the first clue which was - What TV show did grandpa get up and watch in the morning - no brainer there - Price is Right - From there we had to go into town (which this town only had one grocery store and two gas stations) you have 6 teams running to the nearest place they could, we had to find groceries that equaled like $12.36 I don't think Mackay knew what hit them. After we found the groceries - which my cousin figured out for his team that two packs of beer ended up equaling that amount. From there we then had to do a Pepsi chug which Jeremy was our volunteer and the sad thing is we couldn't find any cold cans so he had to drink it warm - lets just say he had a very bad belly ache the rest of the day.

The next day we started in Snake River and worked our through Pingree and Blackfoot doing the same thing. The funniest part about the second day is our team (which we ended up last the day before) we were on a really good start until we had to go to a relatives house and dip chocolates. We were a head of everyone else until we headed to the car and my mom realizes that she doesn't have the keys. I start asking her are they in your pockets she says she doesn't have pockets - are they in the house - so she goes in the house and starts looking around - she starts asking everyone if they have seen the keys. Teams are finishing their chocolate dipping and moving onto the next clue - mom starts wondering if Don and her brother Terry took the keys so Jeremy gets in the way of their pick up while mom grabs on to the side of the car - Terry starts moving Jeremy with the Truck and they told mom they didn't have the keys - finally mom finds the keys and we ask her where they were and she said "They were in my pocket"

The day was fun and ended with everyone meeting at my great grandma's grave. Although we were all tired some of us still had some energy to play Red Rover Red Rover . I can't wait for the next reunion.

Hoover DAMN!

I was looking through our computer and came across our pictures of Hoover Dam when we went down in October. I am sure things have changed since then, but I thought I would share since I haven't added anything new to my blog.

So I don't know if anyone has been to Hoover Dam lately, but they are creating a huge bridge that goes over the dam. Jeremy and I went down to Vegas in hopes of seeing my Super Star Singer of all time Celine Dion - Stupid ho cancelled her show and I was really bumbed. So one of the days we decided to go down and see Hover Dam and here are some of the pictures that we took. Enjoy:

Jeremy & I on Hoover Dam.

Here is part opf the bridge they are building so that people don't have to drive the windy road down and across the dam.

Here is the other side. Here is a picture for both sides. Now does your body just get the heepy jeepbies?

We also went on a tour of the Dam and that was cool.

Here we are going through a concrete tunnel I can't remember where exactly we were going.

This is the map of the Hoover Dam. It shows where all the water is pumped out to and they talked about how they had to add more pumps to the dam and how they did that. I can't remember everything they said, but it was really neat.

This is inside the room of the generators. They said that they support power to Nevada however most of it is to support California. It was amazing. Any way I would totally suggest anyone that when they go down to Nevada to visit Hoover Dam and go on the underground tour.