More pictures

Here are some pictures from our trip. They start with the end of the trip first. I haven't really figured out this blog thing yet. Anyway, enjoy! We surely did!

VACATION!!

Wyatt and Wade back from a 2 and 1/2 hr mt. bike ride in Custer in the rain!

Mt Rushmore.

You want us to go through that????

Enjoying our hike in Custer Park.

Crossing a stream in Custer State Park

The kids doing the Lambeau Leap!

We have entered the Packer Mecca!

Wade and the girls on the train at the Milwaukie zoo.

Riding the train at the zoo with my boys.

We love Great Grandma Pease!

The farm house where Wade grew up in Wisconsin. (at least until he was 11)

Are we there yet??

Oh, we love to ride in the truck!

The Nauvoo Temple.

Statue across from the Nauvoo Temple. Hyrum and Joseph in their last ride together going to Carthage.

A celebration picture after presents and Ice Cream!

Willy is celebrating his 4th birthday!!

Just for reference, the window the Prophet fell out of is the second one. Meaning the one on top!

Standing in front of the window where Joseph Smith fell out of.

I think I finally stopped crying for the picture!

The kids in front of a statue of Joseph and Hyrum Smith at the Carthage Jail. The jail is behind them.

Bekah taking a little rest in Carthage,Ill.

Our 2 week vacation photos

Annika is trying out the stilts. Connor is going solo!

Wade checking out his stilt ability.

Stephi trying out stilts at the Pioneer Games station.

This is the actual size of the wagons the saints took out west. Our knees are very close to the other side. There are 14 of us and no household items, just people. I never realized how tiny these wagons were until I saw this one. Amazing!

Here is the whole crew with a couple of oxen. These guys are huge!!

Did you know oxen are steers allowed to grow until adulthood and not turned into your hamburger?

Here Wade, Will and Rex are learning how to make rope in Nauvoo.

4 children awaiting the arrival of the Torgesens!

How's that for a Woolly Mammoth! Manny where are you??

Here we are in the National Dinosaur Museum in Vernal Utah. The kids had to find the items on their charts!

Here is the truck and trailer.

A few of the Johnson and Torgesen children doing the stick pull in Nauvoo.

Wyatt's 3rd place pinewood derby car! 3rd out of 34 entries. Not too bad for his first derby!

Bekah has entered the world of braces! She is doing ok, but the pain has been the pits!

Annika had 11 inches cut off of hair!

Will is playing with flour and got caught! I think he is trying to hide!

This is what happens when you leave a 3yr old alone with flour! I thought he knew we were done!!

Hope you are enjoying spring! We are getting ready for our big trip to see church historical sites. We are also going to see where Wade grew up in Wisconsin. We leave in less than two weeks!!!

Look at those workers! Wyatt was having a good time just hard to get all four to smile at the same time! The only casuality was Will's head and Annika's shovel. OUCH!!

This was our Family Home Evening project. We planted 6 more fruit trees! Our orchard now has 11 trees!

Happy Easter

Here are a few Easter Pictures! The color went pink so pretend you see white where the color went pink. Hope you all had a great day!

Will finding eggs all over! Plus my finger accidentally!

Annika posing for the camera

Wyatt looking in the wood for eggs with his shades on.

Latest Happenings in Weiser

Aren't they cute??

Really bad picture of Beemer and Scamp and I don't know how to get rid of it! That is our lab, Riley, in the background.

Bekah working Doxie!

Bekah's new puppy Scamp!

Our new truck, the Mega Cab Dodge Diesel!

Welcome to Mudville

Well, the New Year seems to be clipping by at the usual frantic pace. It's February already...somehow. The weather has been less than stellar. We had an inversion for about two weeks. For most folks this might not be that big of deal, but in Weiser, where we are used to seeing the sun on almost a daily basis, it was tough. We snuck away with the kids one Friday and went skiing at Brundage. The elevation was high enough that we found ourselves enjoying a day of beautiful sun. The snow was good and the children had a good time. It was Will's first time skiing and he had a blast. Unfortunately, the battery in our camera died after we snapped our first shot, so the photo you see is the only one we have. I've added a couple of other photos of some recent events as well.