Grandma's Birthday Blowout

In celebration of Grandma Bohn's 77th birthday, we had a party. Well, the girls had a party and the guys came despite not being invited. In the end everyone was happy that the guys came. The event schedule included going out to eat, a BYU football game (tailgate party included), pumpkin carving, and "The Talk"--if you don't know what that means ask Saundra. We ate ourselves sick and grandma got some wonderful presents--in particular her AARP guide to pills book.

Pumpkin carving!!!

This is the evil nurse pumpkin that Mitchell and I created. We realized that it kind of looks like me--I guess that's a bad thing...? Anyway, for better or for worse, the pumpkin was "too good-looking" according to Nathan.

General Conference and Christina's B-day

So we all got together for General Conference on Sunday to have fun and to make Christina's B-day special. We had a magical breakfast and then after the morning session we had Grandma B's famous chicken salad sandwich spread. While Megan was overseeing the fixing of lunch Christina and Nathan serenaded the group (don't worry, it didn't sound as good as it looked and it looked great)

Kendra's B-day Pig!

Kendra had a Birthday this last month! (We were told it was "Golden" and it was)
Materials by: Christina and Nathan
Design by: Christina and Mitchell
Execution: Christina, all Christina

Nathan Goes to Shows!

There it is, second from the back. The light blue bug is mine. My Volkswagen club sponsored a car show a few weeks ago. Our show is in it's 10th year. I showed up to help with managing traffic and registering entrants. It was a lot of fun. We had a live band and more than 67 cars come. If you ever want to come to club night, let me know! You can come see what the v-dub scene is all about.

Top Ten Best Things About the Ely Family Reunion

Well, we had our Fourth of July Ely Bohn Family Reunion this past weekend. This is my reunion top ten in no particular order. Feel free to add to the list cousins!

1. Grandpa Bohn absolutely loved the shirt Nathan and Megan designed and we heard he was showing it to everyone in Logandale!
2. I got to sleep on the trampoline with Marci (I still can't figure out why no one else was vying for a spot on it....)
3. Waiting in the car for a few minutes in Kent and Sandra's driveway so Miles, Kendra, and I could trick everyone into thinking I wasn't coming until Saturday. (Yeah, I know that one didn't quite work out, but i still got a kick out of it)
4. Getting in touch with nature during the hike.
5. Watching Nathan whomp (is that a word?) through a meadow like a mountain troll after the hike. He thought he was frolicking.
6. Winning Phase 10 after 19 arduous rounds.
7. Being introduced to Grandma Bohn's chocolate pillows. They changed my life.
8. Seth bearing his testimony in 20 seconds flat.
9. Eating Kent's amazing strawberry-rhubarb pie at midnight approx.
10. Eating ice cream with Sandra, Megan, and Seth in the condo when everyone else was at the fireworks display.
11. Geo-cashing. Well, I had mixed feelings about this because Pat kept saying we failed. But, I still had fun.
12. Holding Lee and Ruth's sleeping babies.

I love you all!!!
Christina

Ely Tour #2

These are the coke ovens, which require 35 cords of wood....that's what the sign said. We climbed up them. That was the easy part--getting down was a struggle at least for Christina.

If you are ever looking for hours of fun, go to a mine shaft and drop things down it. It's addicting.

Where did it go?

All the metal things we found to drop. We figured they would be noisier. More noise=more fun!

If you are ever looking for 15 minutes of fun, go to the Taylorsville Cemetery. You will never find a more captivating series of ply wood tombstones. Not to mention the log book that told us how the people buried there died. We were a little confused when we read "Double homicide with a Mexican."

Ahhh Cave Lake--so much natural beauty (see above photo).