Busy August!

 

 Earlier this month, August 9 to be exact, we took Avril and McKel to the Cache County Fair.  It was Avril's second one, having gone last year, and McKel's first.  Adrian and family were in CA.  Here are the girls in the double stroller, next to a cute baby dwarf goat. Note the world's smallest horse in the background under the table (just kidding).  It's actually a shaved dog.

 Avril, pulling a face near the sheep pens.

 Here we're getting an eyeful (and noseful) of some pigs.

 And the really fun part is the rides at the fair.

 Avril, awaiting the start of her car ride.

 The train was fun too.!  McKel was too small still to ride.


What's a fair without something good to eat?  This is a frozen banana, dipped in chocolate.

Avril checking it out too.

It was worth the mess.

 Two cute girls!!!  They love each other.

 A couple days later we drove Grandma Joyce and Aunt Leah down to a Parkinson reunion on Millcreek in SLC at the Russels' house.  Kelly, Patricia, and the boys made it too.  Our camera times shots perfectly to capture most people with their eyes closed!

 Here is just part of the group.  Joyce is holding Edison.  Leah is cooling off with a refreshing glass of water.

Here is Gayle with George and Edison.

 Here's a random shot from sometime this month of the girls in the love seat in their living room, as Avril munches on a cookie.  Avril was reading McKel a story.

 Another random shot, this one of Patricia and Grandma Joyce on Country Club Dr. with Trish's 3 young ones.

 On the 25th I had volunteered to be at the tabernacle for the international health fair to serve as a tabernacle tour guide and Spanish interpreter.  Turns out my part of the day was slow so I spent time with the girls when Gayle brought them down.  They're busy eating filled churros that I had just bought from a stand run by a gal from Sao Paulo, Brazil (selling this Mexican treat!).

 McKel was too drowsy to enjoy the treat.

 Avril wanted to get a drink herself.

 McKel needed help.

 We stopped for a few photos en route to the parking lot.

 After the tabernacle event, we went up to Bear Lake with the whole clan.  Here is Avril, playing on the shore.

Arlene had fun with the girls.  It was a beautiful day, but rather windy.

 Ali and daughters.

 I had fun wading with the little ones, who had a blast.  The water wasn't too cold either.


Arlene and Gayle soaking up some sun.

 We rented a jet ski and everyone who wanted to got to drive it.  In fact, Brit was on it most of the rental time and drove it quite a bit too.

We had to move our picnic because of the wind and ended up setting it up between and behind the cars.

We used the occasion to celebrate Brittney's big "one-five" (15th) birthday, even though she had it a week earlier while she and her family were in California.

A shot of Brit's birthday treats.

 McKel playing with some plastic pipe at her house.

 Avril on her doorstep.

The week after the Parkinson reunion we had a Keller reunion up in Preston and Mink Creek.  Steve and Susan were in town having been at a wedding in Susan's family.

 Grandma Joyce with one of her Preston relatives.

 Gayle, next to part of the buffet she set up.  We brought much of the food (pulled meat, potatoes, and buns) up from the USU catering department.

David and Clixie with Joyce.

After the events in Preston, we went to the Mink Creek chapel and cemetery.

 Here we are at James Morgan Keller's memorial.

 This is the rec hall in the Mink Creek chapel.  It is unusual in that it has painted murals above the basketball court walls.

 Three brothers up at mom's after the Keller reunion.

 Alicia took the girls up to Montana to visit family on their maternal grandma's side at a camp-out.  Here are the girls playing at the campsite.

 McKel out in nature.

 A recent romp through a sprinkler one evening as the girls waited for their mom to pick them up from our house.

 We visited our neighbor, Aldyth Prince, at her Providence assisted living location recently.

 Gayle and the flowers out back of the Sunshine Terrace where we had visited that day.

We see dad frequently at his Legacy House living quarters.  Here we were with mom too so we got a shot of them.
 
 On Saturday, Sept. 1, Alicia participated in the "Man vs. Mud" run at the American Heritage West site with her cousin, Rob Crockett.  Somehow they and Gayle missed each other at the finish line, but Gayle snapped this shot of part of the course that included a water slide into a mud hole with lines they had to crawl under to get out of the pit.

 And here are the two contestants after having the mud hosed off.
 
 Full view of the clean cousins.