Wednesday, July 27, 2011

a winkly twinkly smile...

Grandparents. We are so happy our children have such neat ones. Grandpa & Grandma Hale spent the day with Lucy at the ranch while we did our narrows hike. They experienced her famous finger grab - where she takes you everywhere she wants to go. I think they ended up going on a few hikes of their own. Lucy tries to match Grandma Hale.











Here is a clip of Luke and Grandpa Songer riding their "train horses" on their birthdays while yodeling and wearing cowboy hats. yeah, fun huh? I should hang out with them more.

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Utah pictures

Songer cousin - Truman


Hale cousin - Trace




Fireworks with family and Macdonalds on McKay's rock


Peekaboo and Spooky slot canyons


I have way too many pictures so I'm going to do a slide show. Stay tuned.

Holiday

We just got back from a little jaunt to Utah and it was fun. The ONLY thing it lacked was my sister Jenny's baby!! She was totally supposed to have her baby while I was home and she is in big trouble cause she decided to have it the day AFTER I left. She had a baby girl yesterday. 7 lbs. 1 oz. and her name is Elizabeth. I'm so happy for her! But I'm just sad that I missed it.

So here is a quick review of the last 10 days. The traditional Songer water slide built by the Songer men and Emily, 4th of July "Hales Angels" float featuring the Hale Family and honoring Nathan Hale who gave his life for our country (he's the one who said "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country" so that is why you see a guy with a noose around his neck on our float), beloved Macdonald family visits on the 4th, indoor sky diving with mom and dad Songer, Peekaboo and Spooky slot canyons in Southern Utah and dad Hale doing an awesome Solleyball header. (solleyball=combo of soccer and volleyball)...

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3rd of July Photoshoot


Month of June

My favorite thing about June was the beginning of a summer playgroup. A couple of weeks ago there were 9 moms and 17 kids. We have 4 new families who moved into the ward and they all have 2 children about Luke and Lucy's age. Here are some of their new friends at Mud Island River Park.

L to R: melynn, dani, matthew, taylor, luke, avary and emmett



Luke is also in a co-op preschool with 4 kids and the moms just take turns at our houses. There is Max, Luke, Charlotte and Halle. (Halle was on vacation) I secretly love when it's my turn to teach. I get all excited about this preschool business. This was 'triangle' day.

(triangle bandanas on their heads)


And then just chillin with my homies. (and by chillin I mean mostly melting)










(feel free to skip these videos - they are just for posterity sake)

Signing Time

Untitled from katiehale on Vimeo.



an old video clip of luke. this was 2 or 3 months ago.

Marshmallow Game

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Every story has a beginning...

Joey and Katie first met in Mr. Hawkes 3rd grade class at Valley Elementary. They became good friends in Jr. High and best friends in High School. Katie wrote to Joey on his mission in Tiajuana and Joey wrote to Katie later on her mission in Tokyo. Years later at the ripe old age of 25, these best friends finally fell in love... or maybe just realized they were already in love. They got married on January 22, 2004.

happy kids

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