Emma 
and Carly...Happy Birthday Girls.......
Love and Hugs to you both....
And just in case you thought I for got one....
Here she is.....
Linds had her birthday last week....Happy Birthday to you Linds....
Christmas time....Easter Rhyme......
CHECK THEM OUT....MARTIN'S ON THE 10TH,
LEX'S ON THE 19TH,
LINDSEY'S ON THE 23RD AND
EMMA AND CARLY'S ON THE 31ST.
HAVE SOME CAKE ON US.....
BAR-B-QUE, CAKE, BIRTHDAY SONGS, KICK BALL, PLAY GROUND AND MORE....WE HAD A GREAT TIME.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JULY.....
THE FUNNEST MONTH EVER.....
Analyn and her team with their trophy.
Traditional "handshake".
Analyn and soccer friends.
Goalie Analyn is ready...
Just hangin with Soccer friends.
We went to many summer tournaments where I coached and refereed.Most of the time I coached Nikki's team where I grew to love all of those girls.
Here is a picture taken at the "Cottonwood Tournament" in SLC
where our team took 1st place.
I can't tell you how much fun those tournaments were
however sometimes.... there were casualties....
like the year I was in the sun for three straight days
both coaching and reffing and ended up
with cold sores all over my lips...
HUGE cold cores from the "heat" and "stress" combined.
My lips were blown up like "Botox hell".
Another time I was at a "Laker Tournament" reffing..
and some guy on one of the teams did not like my call and yelled across the field...."You Huntsville B@#!* go home where you came from"...
Well, some tournament officials heard him and let's just say he did not watch anymore games in that tournament.
AYSO....you got to love it.
AYSO had a "National Tournament" one year in California and Nikki was lucky enough to make the team. Here is a picture with her team. Kelli Carver Booth was also on this team. Nik would go on to play with and against many of these girls in local tournaments and also at the the High School State Tournament.
Robin, Nik, and Carly all played Soccer for WEBER HIGH.
Those soccer years were some of my most cherished.
Til next summer...........and more soccer.
There was only nuts on one side in case theWolthuis Family came with their "Nut allergy's".
Lex is the same age a "Jack Benny"
[Very few will get that.....but those that do will know how old Lex is]
Tomorrow we party.....
Stay tuned for the July Birthday Bash.....
Dark Horse....note the new shirts.
Rod and Peg get things going...
Nik warms up......
Carly and Nik get started.....
The cousins have a "Dance off"
Sidra gets her bootie on....
Carly digs deep for a kick from a prior time..you still got it C
In the end they all take a bow.....
We mustn't forget the little 2nd cousins......
They had fun too. Others joined in the fun as well...
We also celebrated Martin's Birthday....
He blew out his Birthday Candles.....
and the band sang him a unique "Happy Birthday Song"The party was a great success as always.
Of course Doug and I danced our annual dance together.
It goes something like this...........
Left ...Right....step step
Left ...Right....step step.
It takes a a few "bars" to remember...but eventually we get it down.
Thanks to the "Morris" family for all the planning and fun...
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Here we are the 4 of us Ferrin siblings still a kickin.We confuse our grandchildren.
One of them thought Rosalie was Carolyn's mother....
One of mine asked me if I was the oldest [whitest hair I guess]
This is a test....what is the order of our birth?
Answer: #1 is #1, #2 is #4, #3 is #2, and # 4 is #3.
Got it????
Tamara in the turquoise shirt was the Hostess with the most-est.Richard standing and Rosalie on the far left were in charge.
Ray and Suzanne and Family relax in the shade.
The Fletcher Gang was there as well...in the center is John and Melissa Clark....
my famous cousins who wrote the book...
"Road to Zion".
John also designed the new Utah licence plate.
If you look close you may see my family scattered about.
We were there I promise.
Love you Ferrin Family
This is Connie, me, Brenda, Jen, and Olive [dog]At this point I am thinking, well, that was not too bad, I did OK.
There was two other hikers we saw, a father and a son and when the dad heard that we were hiking across the top, past three peaks and down the other side, he said " You are? Going down is really steep......and then I saw that look in his eye, and could tell what he was thinking......"Do these ladies know what they are getting into????
The next 4 miles were up up up.
Seriously, any other year I would have been in shape and strong enough to do this hike with no injuries......but with the health problems I had this last year, I had no business going on this hike. I was a whiner, complainer, and an "are we there yet-er."
The good points were the views:
This one is looking toward Honeyville and Bear River.
This one is toward Logan, Mendon, Wellsville
This is towards Brigham City.
And finally.....this is Sardine Canyon.We also enjoyed the wild flowers......
and we even saw rocks with fossils on them....
[but I was way too wasted to care about taking pictures at that point]...
so if you want to see them, you will just have to hike there.
It was beautiful on top. and the weather was perfect....but the mosquitoes..and fly's and horsefly's were like the plagues of the last days.
I would say that 2/3 of the way was uphill with very little reprieve from the up or down. It really did not flatten up on top at all. We hiked three peaks [Box Elder Peak was one and I don't know the others because I did not plan this hike, remember?], and 2 mounds.
The last 4 miles were STRAIGHT DOWN DOWN DOWN.
At sometime during the the hike we lost the trail and bushwhacked a little. I twisted my knee and that was it for me. The pain was excruciating in my left knee and in my toes. Those last 4 miles were pure hell. I literally hiked down sideways. Any time I came to anything that was flat at all, I had some reprieve from the pain, ....but there was very little of that. I think I will lose both of my big toe toe nails as the downhill was so steep and my boots were so hard. At one point Jen traded me shoes and that gave me some hope. Enough hope to finish. I could not have done it with out my TWWDI hiking friends. Jen literally got me down that mountain by breaking my falls and holding me back so I would not fall. A hike that should have taken us about 6 hours, took us a little over 11 because of the decent and my knee. My friends were so patient. When I got home, I was so fatigued, and in so much pain, I thought for sure I had torn my meniscus. I soaked in a hot bath, and then iced my knee and went straight to bed. And then the miracle happened.... I woke up the next morning and I could walk normal. It still hurts to go down stairs ...but no one would believe how much pain I was in the day before.
PROLOGUE: At sometime during the hike, I looked at Brenda and said "I'm done". She looked at me and said "You are not done".
At that moment, I remembered being in the bottom of the Grand Canyon with a hiker we will call "Laura" that was so "done". It was about midnight at the "Phantom Ranch" in the bottom of the Grand Canyon and we were leaving about 3AM to hike back out. Laura was throwing up from heat stoke, and said she was "done" and Brenda just looked at her and said "You are not done". There is a sign in the bunk house that says something like "There is only one way to leave the Phantom Ranch, and that is the way you got here." Yesterday I had my "done" moment. But I knew what Brenda meant when she said I was not done. We have been through a lot, and this was nothing compared to everything we have been through.....and I wasn't "done' because I hiked out of that trail the way I started..... on my own two feet.[minus my left knee and two toe nails.
Hey, anybody want to go hiking?
Next it was the
EDEN PARADE:
The cousins line up [wake up Farrah]
Hey Where is LUKE?????
The "Spectators" [Armstrong's and Summers] wait with Baited Breath for the Event.
But don't blink those eyes!!!
Here is the 1st of the parade [Look close to see EMMA]
Emma is on the right with the flag on her bike and the cute sticker on her face.
Christian and Lindsey are almost out of the picture.
Only in Eden can we find 4 wheel Horses
Look close for the "Horse Heads"Then of course there is the 5 minute break before the 2nd half of the parade arrives.
Farrah gets a little help from her friend Martin
Last year it was a "Wagon"....this year a tricycle pulled by Martin...maybe next year a real bike with training wheels.
Farrah brings up the tail end of the parade.The reward is..............
Popsicles!!!And of course we can't leave out the Huntsville Parade:
Here are some of my favorite entries:
Big Foot!!
This is Dave Carver's entry and if you have not heard, there is a ....BIG FOOT CONVENTION
JULY 26TH AT HUNTSVILLE PARK
complete with TEXAS PRIDE BARBECUE
MUSIC and BIG FOOT tales from right here
in the VALLEY.
Don't miss this EVENT
I doubt you will ever see the likes of it again.
Another favorite entry was the entry from
VALLEY HAIR....
....only in a local parade
and there was the RIGHT TO 'BARE' ARMS FLOAT...
Get it....."bare" arms.....My favorite "Family" float was the Froerer
DRAGON float complete with "Prince and Princess".
After the Parade we ventured over to the park where they had apatriotic program and of course the refreshing
"Snow cones".
The one "oops" of the day was when we lost
Christian for a minute.
But that was just a minor set back to a wonderful day.
A Barbecue on Sunday completed our celebration.
I am grateful for Family and reasons to get together.
We missed Mac and Robin's Family's.
Happy 3rd, 4th, and 5th......
until we meet again.....
