Shoes, shoes, shoes...

One of Olivia's favorite things to do is try on Mommy and Daddy's shoes and walk around the house with them. She's getting pretty good, even with Mom's high heels, which is no small feet.

Reunion Reminiscing

The first official Gary and Pam Monson reunion was this summer at Snowbird Ski Resort up Little Cottonwood Canyon and it was so beautiful! The cousins were assigned a secret person to give a little gift to each day. That first evening, the kids decorated their secret cousin boxes. Olivia and Caleb really got into it. "Okay, let's see, what can I chew - paper, stickers, ahh...crayons and glue - nice!"



So there was quite a lot of boasting about who could do the most flips on the bungee trampoline. Never found out who won, though a few lost their dinners. Good times.


The kids had a ball in the blow up castle. It was funny watching Caleb and Livvy try to walk in there. Little unstable on the feet.

This was the spectacular view from the aerial tram. It takes you from the bottom, up tens of thousands of feet (can't remember exactly how high). It is gorgeous. Some of us (not me) saw some moose on the way up. Moose seem to evade me - being from Alberta, you'd think I might have seen a few but I always seem to miss them. We live in a beautiful part of the world don't we?

Here's the view from the top. We get out and hang around for about 15 min., then it takes us back down. So pretty!

Bit windy at the top eh?

Rob fell off of the cliff and was just hanging on by his fingernails. Phew ... close call:)

Races were held in the hallways of the resort hotel. You can see how much fun Tyson is having. He really had been looking forward to it for a couple of months.

With a large group, you often find those times where a random game of duck, duck, goose comes in handy. At this point Livvy had a stomach virus and had been throwing everything up. She's not too happy about the duck game.

As nature has it, families share those wonderful germs and we all ended up spending a good amount of time in this room - thought we should include it:)

Used just a couple of towels.

All in all it was a fantastic first Monson reunion, with many more to come. The boys get to plan the next one - so we're excited to see what they come up with:)

Happy Fourth!

Fourth of July parade, down town Provo. This was the facial expression for most of it - not sure what to think about the canons and motorcycles. Loved the dog that sat right beside us, and of course, the rocks.



Only in Provo, Utah. The missionaries are in the parade behind Rob and Olivia. They were shouting, "Hurrah for Israel!!" You've just got to love the missionaries!