Meeting Dane

WHERE: Nampa, Idaho
WHEN: July 2009
WITH: Family
WHY: Dane's blessing.

MEMORIES:
-I drove Grandpa and myself up from Utah.
-Taking the boys to the water park.
-Gage really wanted to light the fireworks but it wasn't dark yet.  He asked my dad, "Papa, can you make the sun go down?" Dad said, "No, only Heavenly Father can do that."  Minutes later we found Gage on the side of the house praying for it to get dark soon :)

Grandpa gave all his great grandkids harmonicas...

Proof that sometimes we exercise on vacation.

My favorite dance partner.

Blessing day!

An Alabama Christmas

WHERE: Madison, Alabama & Nashville, Tenessee
WHEN: December 2010
WITH: Family
WHY: Grant got baptized and we stayed through until Christmas.

MEMORIES:
-Grant's baptism, I played the piano.
-It snowed on Christmas!  First White Christmas I'd had.
-Going up to Nashville to the Grand Ole Opry
-Visiting the Jack Daniel's distillery

Grant's baptism celebration.

Playing "hide and seek"

Family pictures.

Waiting for Christmas to start.

Christmas reactions.

Christmas place settings.

Christmas pie miracle!  (Can you see Santa?)

White Christmas!

Grand Ole Opry

Ice "land" at Grand Ole Opry

After Jack Daniel's tour.

Grandpa turns 90!

WHERE: Salt Lake City, Utah
WHEN: January 2007
WITH: Family
WHY: Grandpa turned 90 years old so we threw him a big bash!

MEMORIES:
-When my mom asked him if we could throw him a party his response was, "Are you sure?  I have a lot of friends..."
-We had dinner at The Roof Restaurant as a family.
-We had the party at the lobby of his condo building; he was right - a lot of his friends came!
-Grandpa made us sing "Happy birthday" to him twice before he blew out his candles :)

Great-grandkids

Grandkids

Father and sons.

Grandpa telling everyone to sing to him again.

The whole family!

Family time.

WHERE: Seattle, WA
WHEN: October 2005 (I think.)
WITH: Family
WHY: I'm not sure if we were all up there for Brett and Carol's wedding, or if we were all up there for Thanksgiving, or if we were all up there just because...  (All of these pictures were in the same file and had a date of October, so who knows?)

MEMORIES:
-This photo shoot:

Our Christmas card that year.

The Glenn Family

Sisters!

David, Mark, Dad, Dale

Making dreams come true.

WHERE: Maui, Hawaii
WHEN: December 2012
WITH: Mom and Diana
WHY: Because on all of our previous trips to Maui we always visited the Grand Wailea Resort and said that someday we would vacation there.  Diana, again being so generous (and mom as well) made this happen!  For some ridiculous reason Dad didn't want to come so we made sure we were home by Christmas Eve.

MEMORIES:
-It being a most-needed and perfect vacation.  I was in the middle of a particularly rough school year and boy did I need that relaxing getaway.  It really was probably the best vacation I had ever been on.
-The amazing bathroom in our hotel room.
-Walks on the beach.
-Mom and I took a particularly long walk into Kihei to eat breakfast at Kihei Cafe.
-Amazing, yet subtle Christmas decorations that were up in the hotels.
-Paddle-boarding for the first time.
-Doing nothing but lay by the beach/pool and absolutely loving it.
-Hotel's pool amenities (lazy river, water slides, water elevator, multiple pools, etc.)

Diana's coworker gave her these stickers.

Just arrived!

See, I could do it...

...but this is how I spent most of my time on it :)

Still Christmastime in Hawaii

Last evening in paradise.