Walk down memory lane

Hello, all!! It has been a LOOONG time since I have written a post. I normally write these during the day but ever since I started working at Tom's parents house 2-3 times a week, I just haven't had the time to even catch my breath, let alone write on the blog. So life has been fun around these parts. Tom has had to travel for business and has one more trip coming up, and I am jealous!! He gets to go to Europe. I realize that it is a business trip but he and his colleague are driving through a few countries to get from one training location to the next. His colleague is from Europe so he feels like he is a confident navigator. I'm sure Tom will have a good time and hopefully he won't come back sick from this trip..... but he probably will anyway because he always does.

So I have been going through some pictures for a project that Quynie has at school and I came across a few super cute ones. I am going to put some up on the blog and take a walk down memory lane. I apologize to everyone in advance because I can not, for the life of me, get the pictures to stay all on one side, and seeing as Tom is in Las Vegas on business, I guess the pictures are going to stay screwed up. Sorry, folks.

This first pictures is of all the Salmond sons. Going from right to left it goes Tom, Wayne, John, and Brian Ray. The funny thing is that they are sitting in birth order. I sometimes forget these fun times. This picture was at the PG 4th of July fireworks show.

This one is last year at fish lake with the Salmond family. We had a good time. The weather was wierd, though. Sometimes it was warm and sometimes it was FREEZING. What I remember most about that trip was seeing Starli and Q on the lake in the little yellow raft, frantically trying to paddle back to shore as they drifted so far away from us that they looked like a little yellow dot on the water! We took this picture about half hour too late. Starli and Mike had just left. That's too bad, but there is always next year.

OH! Don't you love dad's funny picture face!? It looks strangely similar to his normal picture face!

This is little Coley in his Bouncer chair. The wierd thing about this picture is that there was a party going on and he was sleeping through all the chaos and noise. He has always been our good sleeper. The jammies that he is wearing were my favorite summer jammies for all three kids because they were really thin but still long sleeved. Coley looks exactly the same now as he did back then, in my opinion. I just love how he is holding the strap in one hand and how cute his little legs are, poking out the bottom of the jumper. Cute baby.

Here is little Quyn with her poor dead father. Tom loved this halloween costume. I jerry rigged some shoulder and leg pads up for him using my karate sparring gear and then found some baseball pants from DI that could pass for football pants for one evening. Quynie is crying in this picture because she thought that Tom really had been cut on his face. She didn't like to look at him. In all the pictures we have of that night, she isn't looking at him in any of them. Wierd. OH! Did I mention that Tom is a dead football player?

Here is Keenan smelling the leaves. The park had such gorgeous colors that we went over and took some family pictures. Keenan was completely adorable the whole time. He mostly threw leaves the entire afternoon. Leaves and rocks. Leaves, rocks, and dirt....... OK! He threw anything he could find to throw, but it was ok because I don't think he hit other people with his projectiles.... well... maybe he hit a few people, but at least it wasn't on purpose..... I hope. Anyway, most of the pictures that we took of Keenan that day were very, very cute. His eyes are SOOO blue and his skin is SOOO light and his hair is SOOO non existent that the vivid colors just popped. He is a handsome boy and has such a cute personality that it makes his onory moments almost bearable.... almost. What a cute kid.

Oh! And I love the bare feet. Pictures where the kids are barefoot are almost always cuter than shoed pictures... don't you agree?

Last, but certainly not least, is our picture at the BYUvs.UTAH football game. That was such a fun day. The season was a series of ups and downs, amazing comebacks and fantastic games. We absolutely loved having season tickets and will get them again. This time we know what to expect. I will dress really warm every game and wear sunblock even if is snowing and it will be expected that Tom will not be able to speak the next day after each game and that he could very easily have 3 heart attacks each season. I loved spending so much time with Tom.

Well, there you have it. My little walk down memory lane. I will do it again next time I post. Hopefully that will be sooner than later....... but who knows.