S e P T e M b e R 2008

Family Birthdays in September:

Cade - #3 Sept 1

Justin - Sept 3

Ryan -  Sept 3

McKinley- #1  Sept 14
Dallin - #8  Sept 20
Brock - #5  Sept 28




We've got news of a new grandbaby coming in March 2009 (see duryeablog.blogspot.com) 

Secret Identities

Victor's Secret Identities.



Nikol sent us an email and shared www.faceinhole.com so I decided to let the secret out and show you who Victor really is. We all know he's a good Indiana Jones from the camping trip. Victor also claims he is a werewolf and if you ever felt the top of his head, you know he is an alien.

Tie Dyeing

Here are some pictures of the Tie Dye shirts we did when we went camping. In Jun08 we did the same thing with the Duryea families, however the tie dyeing in Aug08 with the Layton families worked much better.
Here are some tips:
Use only 100% cotton shirts
Wash the shirts and dry them before you dye them (NO DRYER SHEETS)
DO NOT USE RITZ dye (or any other ALL PURPOSE DYE)
Use Very Warm water when mixing the dye
After dyeing, wash in hot water and rinse in cold water - then dry them in the dryer.
(Karly washed and dried hers and said the colors stayed - only the blue seemed to run a little)

We bought this kit at Michael's (http://www.duncancrafts.com/ProductDetails.aspx?id=31bc94be-5d8c-4074-893c-9a8dbcd3aec9)
it says you can do 8 shirts with the kit - we had 2 kits and did 12 shirts and it was pretty skimpy. I'd say you could do 4 shirts with the kit and get some really good colors.
Everyone did their own thing, when tieing with the rubberbands - some of us did spirals, some did triangles, a few just folded the shirt like a fan and then put rubberbands every few inches.
The kit tells you how to do some of the designs.
It was lots of fun and we're probably going to make this a "camping" tradition.

14 of 19 (Grandchildren)

Sleepover!!!

We had Jaxsen, Kaitlyn, Dallin, Teagen, Kobe, Karson, Lincoln, Jenna, Brock, Truman, Kali, Allie, Brecklyn and Jefferson come over on Friday night (08 08 08) and hang out with Grandpa and I.

We ate dinner, went to the park, played volleyball, played X-Box, and the Wii, played kick the can at 10:00 p.m. (yes even the 2 & 3 year olds were out running around)... then to the backyard to watch Madgascar on an outside projector - inside at 11:15 to finish off the movie and drop off to sleep. 13 of us (including Gramere/ma) slept in the bigroom - Grandpa got to sleep in his own bed and Jaxsen slept on the futon in the gameroom. Grandpa fixed pancakes, eggs,and bacon with the help of Jaxsen.

Grandpa and I sure did have a fun time, hope the kids did too... some of these pictures are fuzzy (duh does that surprise you)... but thought I'd put them in...

2 lessons learned. 1st - I need to wear my glasses when taking pictures AND 2nd.... now you all know what I see when I don't wear my cheaters!!!!

Kali was the last one to wake up!!

The picture of Jefferson playing the Wii, didn't turn out...... :-{

Fire in Golden at Great Gramere's House

On August 4 at about 4:30, Great Gramere was evacuated from her home. This fire was out the back of her house. Those of you have been there, the fire was right behind the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, where the horses are when you look over the back hill. As Great Gramere was packing up to go with the help of Trish, Tim and Ryan - the fireman told them the winds had shifted and they could stay. Gramere went to Trish's anyway just to be safe....... took 3 boxes of valuables, 1 bag and FORGOT to take Gramps!!! (but he stayed behind to watch the house =}

August 2008

WHEW - it will be a hot one this weekend.....

Here's some things that are happening in our family this month:
Happy Birthday -
Brandon (1st), Ashlynn (2nd), Brecklyn (2nd), Karson (12th), Cindy (13th) ~ ~
Braum will leave for Iraq on Saturday August 2nd at 9 p.m. - I'll get more details later from Katie about where.... we send him our love and prayers that God will protect him.
Sleep-Over for the Grandkids on August 8th.
Camping trip with the Layton kids/grandkids on August 15,16, 17th

Dinner - August 10 - Layton's 5:00 p.m.

Dinner - August 17 - Duryea's 4:00 p.m. (President's House)

Dinner - August 24 - Everyone 4:00 p.m.