Holbrook Zoo

2010-07-28T08:54:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! Sorry I haven't posted in so long, but since school got out it's been sort of crazy. The day after school got out we went up to Lander Wyoming to see Dr. Bills' big firework show he does every year. The fireworks were amazing and the story was touching. This time it was on TV too.

Two days after the firework show we went up to Park city and stayed at the West Gate hotel. That was amazing! There was a flatscreen TV in every room! They had a spa for the adults that I couldn't go in but we could go in the hot tubs next to the pools. We also went on the Extreme zipline! That was one of the most fun things I've ever done. And I got to go twice!

About a week after we got back from the hotel Mom, Summer, Grandma and I went up to silver lake to see me and Summer's cousin Amy. Not much to tell there.

2010-06-04T17:25:00.000-07:00

It's the end of the school year and geuss what that means! We do all the fun stuff! My class is doing shakespear, the reniassance fair, and the 6th grade dance! Mom and Dad came into shcool today and showed the two classes that are doing the 6th grade dance some swing moves because we are having a swing competition. I hope I win.

I'm a narrator in the play The Twelth Night by Shakespear. My teacher came really close to not doing it because a lot of the class didn't have there lines memorized.

For the reniassance fair I can become the queen, but I have to become a handmaiden first and there are cirtain requirements for it which some are hard and some are easy like I have to sweep and mop the kitchen floor, vacume the living room, and dust. Then on another one I have too write a letter of appreciation for my mom. Then I become a Laidy in waiting. Then I can run inthe cometition for the reniassance fair. It's great fun.
P.S There are some really new funny quotes on the quote wall!

2010-05-17T18:44:00.000-07:00

Hey Guys! I drew these pictures and I want feedback, so I can do better next time. Don't be afraid to say something critical. ;) That's the whole point.

I like wendy

2010-05-07T14:12:00.000-07:00

wendy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-05-07T12:59:00.000-07:00

Hey guys I forgot to tell you that I 'm doing the blog with summer! So it's pretty much me and summer's blog.

2010-05-07T11:33:00.000-07:00

So my family is going to watch Avatar today at John Henderson's house and my mom doesn't want me to go, but dad doesn't care. I kinda got the impression that he wants me to go. I hope I can go. I'm really really excited to watch Avatar.

P.S. This is Jennie.

Hi, this is Summer. While everybody else is watching Avatar me and Wendy are going to have our own little party. (With yummy food.)

2010-05-06T11:20:00.000-07:00

We were trying to take a picture that looked like we were all sleeping. As you can see it didn't work. When we finally got all of us in the picture none of us were paying attention except me because I was taking the picture.

2010-05-06T10:59:00.000-07:00

Evan wasn't really cooperating, but it's a cute one of Wendy!
No comment.
Me and Wendy were out taking pictures for my shelf, because I have framed pictures of me and other people and she decided she wanted to make my shelf. I think I will put this one on my shelf.
This was a lucky picture of Evan. Usually it's hard to get a picture of him grinning like that because he's moving around so much.

2010-05-06T10:49:00.000-07:00

She's smoking hot! ;)

I did my own hair! It was so much fun!
Wendy got this picture when I wasn't ready.

silley me!

2010-03-27T17:43:00.000-07:00

my life

2010-03-05T16:52:00.000-08:00

Bella is the cutest dog

Wendy is a good sister.

My teacher in 2nd grade was verey nice.

This is also a friend of mine.We'v been friends sence kindergarten.

Halloween!

2010-01-31T16:03:00.000-08:00

I love to play with clay.

2010-01-29T11:30:00.000-08:00

Rily loves molly. We racked all the leavs and Evan sat in them

Jennei was a beatiful Prom-Quien.

Evan is the cutest cow!I'm so tired from getting read for trick or treating

We all love getting our hands dirty when it comes to carving them

Even first Halloween is hear!

Summer-New Blog Author!

2010-01-29T11:00:00.000-08:00

I Love Sticks! By the way I'm going to be doing the blog.

TONS of camping pictures

2009-09-27T18:26:00.000-07:00

new blog

2009-09-20T20:20:00.000-07:00

ok, for those of you who don't know, my new blog address is emilyroseholbrook.blogspot.com haha, i realized i said i was doing a new blog and didn't give anyone the address!

New blog

2009-09-11T01:40:00.000-07:00

Hey all you lovely people that have been faithfuly reading this blog for so long! i have decided that the people who really need to be doing this blog are mother and father since they are really the ones who know what goes on in the family and its suposed to be a family blog. i sort of got tired of trying to figure everthing out and doing it how mom and dad wanted it and then it still ended up having more about me than anyone else! but i still like blogging so i've actuallly just started my own blog. If you'd like to read it, its emilyroseholbrook.blogspot.com. there's not much on it at the moment, but i'll keep working on it.

2009-08-26T12:05:00.000-07:00

Redwoods/Oregon/Daniels wedding trip

2009-07-28T22:54:00.000-07:00

These pictures are backwards so if you want to see them in order scroll to the bottom and go up.

Daniel finally made it to his sweetie pie. The Medford temple is a beautiful small temple.

This is the Middle Fork of the Smith River. It was a gorgeous Jade color.

Tom has a picture of this from when he was a kid so of course we had to pull in and get a picture.

This pool at the motel was not heated at all and it was REALLY cold.

Not my best side but the canyon is pretty.

Daniel found this lovely slug.

This is fern canyon. It's a narrow little canyon with a small river running through it. The canyon walls are covered with ferns. It's just lovely.

On the beach near the visitor center.

Walking through the Redwoods was so awesome and peaceful.

Our motel in Orick California. It's just on the edge of the Redwood national park.

The California coast.

Daniels countdown chain to his wedding day. He was sure anxious to get to Oregon for some reason.

This is the first day of our Redwoods/Oregon trip

We stopped at the salt flats and had fun making shadows.

Just some fun pictures

2009-07-28T22:32:00.000-07:00

Recital

2009-07-27T23:40:00.000-07:00

I'm finaly getting my recital that happened way back in may on here. i played five songs by Bach, Mozart, Scott Joplin, Dubussy, and William Joseph. i had some wicked videos but they won't upload, sorry :(

this picture is from after. i had some friends come over and we had cookies. My friend, Emily is on the far left, then me, Dustin, and Mike. Kabrina and Steven were there too. i'm not sure why there are no pictures of them.

haha, funny story. so everyone in my family thought that someone else was getting me flowers but no one actualy did. so at the end of the recital, no one gave me any. so my parents went to the store amd got me some to give me later that night. how sweet

2009-07-27T23:36:00.000-07:00

hehe, I think this is me working on the blog. don't i look happy?

Summer's Birthday Party

2009-07-12T21:00:00.001-07:00

I'm turning nine and out of third grade its my B-day!
party.

Blowing out the candle is a lot of fun I'm old!

Lexy Sarah Abby & Jennie are all realy good friends.

Alog with Kimy Sarah & Marisa.

All the food looks realy good.

Abby gave me a realy cute stuffed animal!

Marisa gave me a nice barby!

Sarah gave me a nice elephent & bounsie ball!

Lexy gave me a dog with a dog house!

Kimy gave me a poley pocket!

Lexy is soooo.... cute.

Kimy & Marisa are like twins.

My poley pocket. wow!:)hehehe

Highland Games in Payson

2009-07-12T17:50:00.000-07:00

I competed With the Utah Pipe band in the Scottish Festival on Saturday. It was tons of fun We placed third in the Quick March Medley and second in the Timed Medley. If you have never been to a scottish festival, you gotta go sometime. they are so much fun!

2009-07-12T15:06:00.000-07:00

Ok, these pictures are in reverse order so start at them bottom and go up. thats how i'll tell the story.

And then we went back home and dropped off the grown ups and picked up the girls and their friends so they could go for a drive. and then we got dropped off at Bree's house and walked to Kabrina's house and watched a movie while the girls went for a ride. Basicaly, it was a wicked awesome night!

oh, and we also went to Bart's Parent's house.

So they had these cool goblet, martini glass things is the limo and we had some fun with them. After dinner, we went to Carmike cuz we thought it would be fun if we all got out of a limo and the people i work with saw. and we wanted to take the glasses and fill them up but i don't think they would have let us

(Ryan went to his brother-in-laws house while we were at dinner)

We had a wicked awesome dinner at Mark Anthonly's. the appetizers were so good, i got full about a quarter of the way through my actual meal. but it was so worth it. actually that's my favorite cuz then you can have left overs the next day :)

Our drivers name is Ryan. he was very cool. and he had awesom facial hair. oh, and you know the driver always comes and opens the door? well it's cuz there's like child locks. we kept trying to open the door to get out cuz we forgot that he would get if for us, and it turns out they are always locked

and there was a limo in front of our house!

but then i went outside

So John took me out for my graduation dinner. I was in my room with Kabrina and Bree waiting for him to get there, and grandma came down and said "you're chariot is here." and i laughed cuz i just thought they were being funny

Goodbye Zak and Riley

2009-07-12T14:33:00.000-07:00

We had a Farewell/Birthday party for Zak and Riley on wednesday at the Brady's house. they're goint to Illionois to live near Hilary who is in the navy now in case anyone didn't already know that.

Chalk the Walk

2009-07-12T11:39:00.000-07:00

I did chalk the walk this year with Kabrina and Steven (who is now my boyfriend, by the way) chalk the walk is where you get out of school for a whole day and make a wicked awesome chalk picture in the front of the school

This is the one we did and it got first place! how cool is that? it was super fun

These are some other ones in the process. we finished ours pretty early so these pictures are mostly unfinished. and then my battery died (as it always does right when i need it) so i only got a few pics.

Keane Concert!

2009-07-12T10:47:00.000-07:00

My friend Emily and I went to Keane concert a while back. it was in Kingsburry Hall which was cool, except it wasn't really your typical rock concert. normally everyone gets up and dances and goes all crazy. but at this one, there were chairs. We were really worried when everyone sat through the opening bands. Me and Emily tried to get up and dance and got shouted down. we were pretty bumbed about that. but thankfuly, people got up when Keane finaly came on and it got really fun. Except for the dumb people all around us that were giving us dirty looks. We did get a little crazy. but hey, you don't get to go to a Keane concert everyday.

these pictures are not in order. this is actually o ne of the opening bands that was pretty good. can't remember what they were called though.

After the concert, We went outside to wait for the band to come out so we could get autographs. Turned out it was freezing and all i had was my t-shirt and we waited for like and hour and a half at least. i was numb and stiff after a bout a half hour. and then my camera died!! But then this really nice couple took pictures for us and sent them to us on facebook. thats what these are. Then it turned it was too late to catch trax. so we had to call Emily's dad to come get us, poor him. i felt really bad. But it was so worth it! we had a great night.

2009-07-12T09:22:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, sorry it's been so long! i guess i just got really side tracked. so today i have decided is my blog day and i'm getting as much as i can on here. since it's been so long, a lot has happended so they might not all be in order but at least they will be on here.

Mother's Day

2009-05-10T19:35:00.000-07:00

Look how happy mom is for mother's day!!!!

Mom got this arbor for mother's day from dad, its going to look so pretty for the open house!

Rebekah's first mother's day!!!!! we got the news today, she two months along already and she's been getting really sick, poor her. She's not happy at all right now, but we're hoping she gets better and is more exited about it.

2009-05-10T12:36:00.000-07:00

We did get these pictures of celebrating mom's birthday, thank goodness! I have to admit, I was feeling sick and slept through all of this, though.

Haha, Dad got mom 50 Roses for her 50th birthday, aren't they gorgeous?

That's a lot of Roses!!

2009-05-10T12:30:00.000-07:00

ok, so last week, lots of things happened, but i was waiting to get pictures of all of it because they were all taken with other people cameras. But I keep asking and i'm not getting pictures from any of them, so i'll just write about it. So on Saturday night was the senior dinner dance and it was soooooo much fun! i wore my black prom dress and i found some wing-tip heels the day before which I am pretty much in love with now. There were lots of cool people there and good food and dancing, it was just a tons of fun.
Also, on saturday, Big John took the family out to eat for mom's birthday. I was at work so I wasn't there, but apparently John hired a singing telegram dressed up as a gorilla to come to the resteraunt. And mom's friend got pictures but we didn't get any, darn!
So sorry again that I don't have pictures of any of this, but I promise, I will keep trying and get pictues on here when I get them!

2009-05-03T15:22:00.000-07:00

On wednesday, while i was at la caille, my parents went to the school art show to accept an award for this painting. If you want to look at it, my full portfolio is on facebook.

2009-05-03T13:53:00.001-07:00

On Wednesday I went to La Caille for a french clube activity and I took a tone of pictures! It was really cool. we had a five course meal wich consited of bread and Salad for the appetizers, escargot and then sorbet to wash it down. Then a main dish. I got chicken and Kabrina got salmon and we shared. they were amazing! and then of course for dessert, we had flambeax. unfortunately, i didn't get any pictures of it because my camera wouldn't turn on for some reason during those five minutes. sad. and of course the grounds and building are beautiful. this isn't even all the pictures i took!

There are birds everywhere. usually there are a tone of peakocks wandering around but i didn't see any this year. just swans, gease, and roosters.

The resteraunt makes their own wine. this is a pictue of their vinyard. it doesn't look like much cuz its so early in the year so nothing is really growing yet.

snails anyone? they were yummy.

This is flo. He just moved here this year from france.

Leslie's shower

2009-04-27T17:12:00.001-07:00

I can't beleive no one even took pictures during Leslies bridal shower! it was so fun though, we played games, ate food, talked, and opened presents.

2009-04-27T16:40:00.000-07:00

I had a practice recital on saturday right after the shower. I think for my real one, i'll put my hair up. I look a little emo in this one. It went pretty well, i'm pretty happy about it. Wierd thing is, my piano teacher never even showed up. I don't know what happened.

2009-04-25T23:53:00.000-07:00

Jenny is getting to be quite the hair stylist. She did Leslie's hair today, and it was pretty much cool.

2009-04-25T15:50:00.000-07:00

Last night was the Jazz Dinner Dance. Way fun!! There were two jazz bands, a combo, and of course the jazz choir which i am in. There was food and dancing and wicked awsome music. I got to perform and Dance with my dad and some friends, and my parents went and danced. we didn't get any pictures, unfortunately, but you can just imagine how cool it was.

2009-04-19T14:46:00.000-07:00

So i'm sure most of you know that Daniel and Leslie and getting married and we are having an open house in the backyard for them. So we've been working on getting it all pretty. Mom got these pansies to plant this week. aren't they cute?

2009-04-19T14:39:00.000-07:00

Sarah got surgery on her toes this week for ingrown toenails. gross, huh? so she's been sitting and watching t.v. a lot. lucky her.

2009-04-19T13:57:00.000-07:00

This is pretty much what sunday afternoon was like today. Its great that they want to increase their talents and everything, but in the same room it got a little crazy. Jenny is getting pretty good at flute. its hard to hear how amazing she is in this video. And summer wants to play trumpet in band next year so she's trying it out. enjoy . . . . .

2009-04-19T13:42:00.000-07:00

for this post i'm just going to tell you all about my day yesterday. At around seven thirty, when I thought I was going to get to sleep in, I was woken up by dad saying that we had to be at the church to clean in twenty minutes. so I dragged myself out of bed and went to the church. I didn't stay the whole time because I had to go to work.
So while I was at work, me and a coworker/friend decided we wanted to make rootbeer. which i was super exited about. So when we got off, we went to the store and bought dry ice and root beer concentrate and went to his house and made root beer. wow, super fun and way easy. I though making rootbeer was way hard or something but it turns out all you do is mix a bunch of sugar, water, and rootbeer concentrate then dump some dry ice in there and let it bubble for a while until it gets carbonated! and then some other friends came over. And Dustin (thats the friend/coworker) has a bunch of shotglasses. So he and two other girls were doing rootbeer shots. And then we decided to make a dry ice bomb which was also super fun. anyway, we had lots of fun and thats my story :)

Zak

2009-04-16T22:04:00.000-07:00

Oh, and by the way, Zak is staying at our house for a couple weeks so he can be closer to work, I think.

lots of pictures of Faith

2009-04-16T21:27:00.000-07:00

So i just got a ton of pictures from Faith. But they're not all in order. This one is when we went to salt lake and faith sang at her school graduation. i came along to watch and the choir was pretty good. it was fun to see what a graduation was like but it was looooong. we had fun, though.

ok, i think this one is from her mission reunion as well as the next two. i dont know any of the people, really, so you'll have to ask faith.

These two are from when we went to Idaho for Evan baby blessing. this is at the church after dinner, I think.

David and wendy live right down the street form the temple. how cool is that?

ummm, not sure what these ones are from. i think some of them are from the top of the wells fargo building, though.

gorgeous!!!

This one is from an Easter party Faith and I went to on Saturday. It was super fun, we played games and dyed eggs and met some new people. you can only see the backs of our heads in this picture but at least we're in it :)

Temple

2009-04-16T19:39:00.000-07:00

Ok, i don't have pictures for this one. I just thought it would be cool to say something about me going to the temple every week. So I decided to start going to the temple every week on tuesdays and at first I just went by myself. but I got some friends to go too and they'ver started coming every week too. its been really great and we have felt the spirit a lot. i'm pretty sure tuesday is my favorite day now. and mondays are my second favorite cuz I always get exited in ancticipation for tuesday, its great!

Easter

2009-04-16T19:20:00.000-07:00

These pictures are of the Easter hunt on saturday. cute, huh? We colored eggs on friday night. and then on saturday morning we got cereal and candy and lots of jelly beans all over the house. I wasn't there or the egg hunt because i had to go to work but it looks like it was lots of fun. On sunday we lots of family over for dinner. It was wonderful to be with all our family on the day that the atonement and resurrection made it possible for us to be with them forever.

Conference weekend

2009-04-06T20:36:00.001-07:00

Alrighty, so just so you know, there are way too many pictures on this one but they are all so good! i even deleted a few and didn't even put some on here. but conference weekend was awsome! almost the whole family was here if not all at once we pretty much saw everyone that was able to come at some point. it was not only a very spiritual experience, but also lots of fun and we had some good family bonding time, it was great! The baby, for those of you who don't happen to already know, its Evan, David and Wendy's little boy.

of course, there was lots of picture drawing during conference :)

haha, you have to laugh at this one

yes, some of us were caught sleeping, shhh

aaawww!

haha, this kid's a hoot, i love him!

more aaawwwwwws!

oops!

summer got very crafty. i think those are spaceships or something, not really sure. but they look cool

sweet

haha, tired baby

faith, i'm sorry, but i never get pictures of you on here, so i had to put this on! at least it shows your new hair cut, kind of :) let me get a better picture of you, and i'll put it on right away

precious

2009-03-31T14:18:00.000-07:00

Summer wanted to put on a play on sunday and she asked me to help her. we took a video of it, but we used the video camera instead of the regulary one, and no one knows how to get it on the computer so i just have these pictures of it. it was lots of fun. summers story was so good! we used those little cone things summer has for puppets and we sat behind the couch for it. we made tickets too, it was awsome!

2009-03-31T14:10:00.000-07:00

Me and Faith love each other so much, we cuddle and fall asleep on each other all the time. She is my prince and i'm pretty much in love with her!

2009-03-28T19:45:00.000-07:00

Today was the General Young Womens meeting. It was very good and i felt the spirit there. I'm so happy Sarah and I went to it.

2009-03-28T19:32:00.000-07:00

Dad has been working on putting up storage shelves in the basement so we can have more room in the storage room and put better shelves in there for food storage and such. He's been working so hard, we are so thankful for him and we love him!

2009-03-27T14:50:00.000-07:00

This is just a funny picture of Sarah my mom took the other day. I was trying to get a good picture of her but she wouldn't let us.

Summer the artist

2009-03-27T14:47:00.000-07:00

Summer stayed home from school today cuz she's been sick. She put her time to good use by painting some pretty pictures.

No School!

2009-03-27T14:42:00.000-07:00

its the end of the quarter so i Sarah and i didn't have school today. We got the kitchen nice and clean and i deep cleaned the bathroom and de-junked the winter stuff in the top of the closet. and i vaccumed the stairs. I feel very accomplished so far. and the day's only half over, i still plan on making cookies, painting, reading a book, doing laundry, and having some of my friends from the UPB come over so i can take pictures of them for an art project i'm doing. i'm very exited.

2009-03-26T21:48:00.000-07:00

This is me at my choir concert last night. I don't know if you all knew this before, but i'm in the Jazz choir at my school. Its pretty much the funnest thing ever! We did pretty well last night. we had some better songs, but this is the only one we got a video of. it was lots of fun.

Mom loves us all.

2009-03-21T21:17:00.000-07:00

Tom is my amazing husband. I appreciate how well he presides, provides and protects for our family. He is a gentleman to me and he makes me happy. He serves our family with love and devotion and always tries to do whats right.

Bart is Aleahs amazing new husband. I'm grateful to him for loving and cherishing Aleah and seeing how beautiful and smart she is and making her happy. Bart lides guns. I don't get that.

Aleah is my Aleah. She is brave and strong and smart and beautiful-practically perfect in every way. She is my friend and loves me even though she sees all my weeknesses.

Michael is my big, strong, handsome son. He loves his family and works hard for them, and plays with them too. He is dynamic and does what he loves with his whole heart and energy. I love how he plays with Damon. So enthusiastically.

I love Michelle. She loves everyone and is a friend to everyone. She is a dovoted wife, mother and homemaker. She makes herself at home with our family and loves us just the way we are, with all our warts.

Damon is a little ball of fire and a sweet darling boy. He is a joy and takes after his Dad in energy and enthusiasm.

Zachary is my Zachary. He is smart and funny and makes me smile and laugh even though I usually don't understand him. He loves violent video games that I don't get. He loves his family and has a good heart.

Riley is a fun little kid. We love him. He loves lincoln logs and legos and trains, we love it when he comes to play with us.

Hilary is a loving wife and mother. She is a good match for Zach. I think she "gets" him. They are two peas in a pod. Hilary is an emergencey rescue person and that is pretty cool.

My Turn

2009-03-16T11:09:00.000-07:00

This is what i wrote down at our family night activity

Sarah warks so hard in school. She is becoming an amazing clarinet player and its great to hear her practicing. it sounds so good. She is really growing up and becoming a wonderful young woman

Dad works so hard for the family at this job as well as service at home. He does such a good job with his calling at church (stake clerk) everyone at the stake really appreciates him! we love him so much!

What Jenny said at Family Night

2009-03-15T13:26:00.000-07:00

Jennifer Hill
I love that Jenny is so optimistic. Loveing and caring. She is very funny and exiting

Sarah
I love that Sarah is such a nerd! She actually cares about her grades, she is very spiritual and follows the gospel.

Daniel
I love that Daniel always wants to have fun with me and the family.

Spring is almost here!!!

2009-03-15T13:24:00.000-07:00

Its been so warm and sunny the last two days, i decided to change the background to something springy! i'm so exited! all the floweres are starting to grow and everything!

Nykels Wedding

2009-03-15T12:20:00.000-07:00

our cousin Nykel got married on friday to W.C. Thompson! We're so happy for them! David, James, John, and Sam came to stay at our house the night before. The wedding was at the Salt Lake temple. I didn't go, because i was in school but from the pictures my mom got, it looked like it was really good. Then we went to the reception in Lehi. It was really fun and i found out i'm already friends with some of the people on W.C.'s side of the family! who would have thought? At the end of the reception, they drove away in this super nice race car. The pictures aren't all in order, sorry. There are a lot of them.

This is what Sarah has to say about everybody

2009-03-12T21:11:00.000-07:00

Daddy; he made a cool light thingy at work
Mommy; in a cool book club
Emily; is doing a great job with the blog
Faith; is doing better at turning in her school work
Me; I have straight A's
Jenny; is learning the preamble to the constitution
Summer; is learning to express her feelings
Aleah and Bart; are a cute new couple
Daniels car broke down
Bella is sick

Sarah is amazing, she had something to say about almost everybody!

2009-03-11T20:26:00.000-07:00

Daddy worked at the Oquirrh Mountain temple today, installing stuff and hauling stuff around. Its so great that he gets to be a part of making such a great thing possible! Whenever I go driving there a certain places where you can see the Draper temple, the Jordan River temple, and the Oquirrh Mountain Temple all from the same place. Sometimes you can even see the Salt Lake temple. I just think that is so amazing, it makes me feel so good.

I love Temples

2009-03-11T19:22:00.000-07:00

Tonight we got interviewed to have dedication recomends! it was very good. so now we all get to go to the draper temple dedication. Oh, and everyone living at home right now has to give talks in sacrament meeting on sunday about conference since its coming up! yay! actually i'm not too exited but i'm sure there will be blessings for it so i'm exited about that.

Dad's Shpeel

2009-03-11T18:01:00.000-07:00

A little bit about Grandma Grandpa Holbrook. Lamoni Dale Holbrook was born May 23, 1914 and was raised on a farm in West Point Utah. He married Grandma on Valentines day in 1939 in the Salt Lake Temple. Violet Beverly Richter was born on July 5, 1919. Grandpa served in the navy in the North Pacific during WWII. He became a mortition and funeral director after the war. He managed the clearfield Lindquist mortuary until 1961 when he started his own business, Holbrook Funeral Chapel in the East Millcreek area of SLC. Grandpa retired in 1985 and from then until 1995 They served five missions for the church, including a stake mission, Salt Lake Temple Mission, Newel K. Whitney store in Kirtland Ohio, Johannesberg South Africa Temple mission and the Washington DC Temple Missio. Grandpa in 1996 at the age of 81 form cancer and Grandma died in 2005 at the age of 85 from a broken hip and Alsheimers.

Grandma and Grandpa had five Children: Rick (Lynda), Helen (Bruce), Tamara, Tom (Lisa), and John (Sandy). They have 24 Grand children and 15 Great Grandchildren so far.

2009-03-10T15:32:00.001-07:00

Jennifer made an awsome valentine for Daniel.

Daniel

2009-03-10T15:28:00.000-07:00

Daniel enjoys comeing home to see the family. He wishes he could do it more. His favorite part about coming home is talking and playing games with the family.

Family

2009-03-10T15:24:00.000-07:00

so my experiment with Summer went pretty well so i decided to try it with the whole family. For family night last night I got everyone to write things about each other for the blog. I got A LOT. so everyday I think i'm going to put up one or two things that each person said. hopefully this will be motivation for you all to check the blog and see what nice things were said about you!

Aaaaaahhhhhh!

2009-03-08T22:05:00.000-07:00

Hey, so in case you didn't all know, Daniel and Leslie are engaged!!!! finaly! we are soo happy for them and they are just so cute together. you should see the things they say to each other on facebook. its so romantic. i'm so exited for them!

I love Summer!

2009-03-08T21:24:00.000-07:00

So I enlisted Summer to help me find things to put on the blog and she rose to the occasion. She wrote some very nice things about people in the family and took some pictures. she also wanted everyone to know about her necklace that she loves and always keeps with her and how good she is getting at cursive. Thats the second picture. She is so great! i love her!

My Best Mom and Dad.
I love my mom. I love my Dad. They tuck me in, they help me when I have a bad dream. I love them so much.

Emily.

You are one of a kind. you help me. You let me help you. Games you play with me and all. I love you.

Rebekah, My Best Sister.
I love Rebekah. She plays with me, she has fun with me. I love her so. She dances with me, she is the best sister. She plays games like hide and seek and apples to apples. I love Rebekah.

2009-03-05T16:50:00.000-08:00

Mom went Walking for five miles with Bella today! Good for them! lets hope they keep it up, eh?

2009-03-04T20:43:00.001-08:00

"The Truth is ...man is a child of God- a God in embryo. That man is a child of God is the most important knowledge available to mortals."
Marion G. Romney

since i'm relating everything in this blog to divine nature (or trying to, anyway) I thought it would be a good idea to use quotes from General authorities and scriptures and such.
Everyone in this family is a child of God and they show that everyday by saying or doing kind things for each other and trying to be like christ.

2009-03-03T21:33:00.000-08:00

Here is Sarah hard at work doing her homework. She did a lot of it yesterday! good for her! i need to do that too.

2009-03-03T20:38:00.000-08:00

Jenny and Summer and Their friend Kimmy decided to Turn the basement into a town called Jamestown after the first town established in America. They showed me all around it and its very impressive. It goes a step further than just playing "house." They have three houses and a store and a bank! very cool.

Jenny runs the bank in town.

Here is Jenn in her bank. She has play money and everything. If you look close, you can see it all organized on the table next to her.

Jenny and Summers friend, Kimmy has a little place too. i'm not sure if its a house or something else but it looks kind of cool.

Sumy has a stor(e) in Jamestown

this is part of summers store. quite the little entrepeneur :)

Summer's Desk

Summer in Her little house hang out place. looks very cozy.

Jenn at her office desk thing

This is Jenn in her Hut

This is the "Junk Yard"

Personal Progress

2009-03-02T20:30:00.000-08:00

So I finally decided to be a good girl and work on my personal progress. I'm working on my Divine Nature project and i've decided to use the blog for it. Which means I have to be extra diligent in keeping things updated because i have to spend ten hours on it in just a few weeks. Thats a lot! I'm trying to relate it to divine nature to relate it to my project so i'll try to point out really good qualities and really good things that are going on in the family. so now that I told you, you can all keep me in line and get after me for not posting!

The Weekend

2009-02-22T18:58:00.000-08:00

This weekend i went to snow college with some friends and toured around campus and stayed over night. There was a concert and games and lots of people, it was tons of fun! i also had a piano auditon which didn't go as well as i hoped but it was a good experience. Sorry, this picture isn't the best but those are my friends Kalisse, Marcie, Kate, and me.

2009-02-13T21:47:00.000-08:00

Hey, everyone! sorry i've been seriously slacking on my blog duty. i'll be surprised if anyone even checks it anymore! i will have to admit that part of the reason is that i have a -shhhhhh, boyfriend. but don't worry i'll try to remember to give you all more frequent updates from now on. and guess what? tomorrow is valentines! hurray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ok, i've got to try and think of anything that has happened in the last month that i haven't told you. oh, Faith! you all remember Faith? well she's been living here since like the begining of the year. She kind of replaced Aleah when she moved out as the oldest sister. its been awsome having her here!
the other thing i just thought of was i just recently acquired a cellular telephone which you can call me on if you want. don't know why you would, but you know, just in case. its davids old phone so if you have his number just change it to me.
ok can't think of anything else and this is getting to be a looooong post so i'll stop now. hey, if you guys want, just send me an email if you want updates and i'm not giving them cuz sometimes i just forget.

Get me to the Church on time!

2009-01-11T17:43:00.000-08:00

And now i'm finaly getting Aleah and Barts wedding on here! hurray! we had brunch from fazoli's mmmmmmmmm! and then they got married in the Timpanogus Temple and had their reception at le jardin. it was a really great day and we saw lots of family and friends and met some new family and friends. there are a ton of pictures and every body looks soo cute!

Merry Christmas

2008-12-26T10:00:00.000-08:00

okey dokey, so i'm finally getting around to putting Christmas on here! yay!!!!! it was pretty much the best day ever and lots of people came over throughout the day. i think the pictures are sort of self explanatory so i'll just let them do the job.

Happy Birthday Rebekah!

2008-12-26T09:42:00.001-08:00

We had a Birthday dinner for Rebekah on sunday and we had leftovers for like three days but they were super yummy so it was ok. and Rebekah looked so cute and it was way fun! She's opening up a little tea set thing in this picture.

oh,you

2008-12-06T12:31:00.000-08:00

David got up on friday and got himself a camera from dad for christmas which i think is rediculous but i guess he's happy so its ok. aaaaawwww aren't they cute?

Thanksgiving

2008-12-06T12:19:00.000-08:00

We pretty much had a ton of people over for thanksgiving. Wendy and David and Rebekah and Chris and Grandpa and Bart and Aleah and Daniel and Leslie and Diane (sorry if i forgot you) . . . . . . .. oh, i did forget someone, Kayleen was there too!

Lelah

2008-11-18T14:23:00.000-08:00

ok, on saturday Aleah, my dearest sister, had a wedding shower! unfortunately no one even thought of taking pictures but it was a joyous occasion and i thought you all should know about it. the theme was emergency preparedness and it was pret-ty fun.

BAGPIPES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-11-14T15:32:00.000-08:00

So last week i entered a chanter competition and won it! this was just after so we didn't have our results yet. we all look happy but really we were about to pee our pants. i mean kilts. anyway, we were really nervous.

After i won, i decided to take up drums. i'm even wearing my medal in this picture, isn't it dashing

after a very long day the judges did a seminar. not that any of you non-pipers would care but i found it fascinating!

Cowboy Poetry Gathering & Buckaroo Fair 2008

2008-11-09T15:18:00.000-08:00

(Painting "Wyoming Girl" by Robert Duncan)

This year for our annual November getaway, Lisa and I accidentally stumbled into the 14th Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering & Buckaroo Fair 2008. We got to ride the "Cowboy Poetry Express", a two-hour train ride being entertained by cowboy poets, singers and performers from around the country. The Buckaroo fair included all the cowboy gear and outfitting that anyone could possible need or want. The vittles from the famous Eddie Deen BBQ were great, too. Lisa picked up some cool kitchen pottery at the Mountain Man Trader's Camp. I've never seen so many cowboys and cowgirls all in one place in all my life. It was a whole lot of fun with some fantastic cowboy entertainment! Needless to say, our getaway as very successful and one we'll remember forever more. We picked up a few CDs of cowboy music and poetry including a few autographed CDs from the Bar-J Wranglers who were one of the many performers at the gathering.

Famous rope trick artist Bennie Martinez who followed in the footsteps of Roy Rogers.

Singer/Songwriter, Announcer and DJ Richard Lee Cody singing songs from his new CD.

Lisa just before boarding the "Cowboy Poetry Express".

Prickly Pair performing on the "Cowboy Poetry Express".

Juni Fisher performing on the "Cowboy Poetry Express".

Cowboy poet Bruce Jensen reciting the poem "Hawk and Blue".

Happy trails now, ya all!

http://www.hebercitycowboypoetry.com/index.php

Halloween at the Zoo

2008-11-02T16:11:00.001-08:00

Princess Jennifer, Goofball Daddy and Black Cat Summer ready to go out Trick or Treating. Of course the folks in the neighborhood who know me were rather surprised since most of them don't know my goofball side.

2008-10-31T13:50:00.000-07:00

so pretty much today is Halloween and summer decided to paint a huge picture of a Christmas tree! who woulda thought, huh?

camping!

2008-10-31T13:29:00.000-07:00

ok, so my mom asked me to put pictures of "our camping trip" on the blog. but i don't actually know what she was talking about cause i don't think i went on that trip. so these pictures might be from the camping trip. it looks like it was fun, i guess. can't say much about it since i wasn't there. it was a long time ago too, i don't know why whe wanted it on here.

fall its soooooo pretty

2008-10-31T13:24:00.000-07:00

a couple of weeks ago we went on a hike through memory grove and had a pic nic. this picture isn't very colorful but it really was when we were there.

Our Day with the Mitchells in Green River

2008-10-26T19:52:00.000-07:00

Summer galantly tried to help. she wouldn't let anyone take the chairs from her!

eating lunch

Hyrum just got home from his mission in Seoul Korea. We all went down to Green River to hear him speak in Sacrament meeting and to join with the Mithcell's for a wonderful Sunday dinner in their yard. Hyrum did an excellent job speaking in church. What a fine young man who really is strong in his testimony and understanding of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. We love the Mitchell family. And we love being with them. It was so much fun being with them for the day. Today was a great day where the hand of the Lord was recognized more than once. Here is one of the pictures we took today after Sunday dinner:

Saturday evening with some of Bart's family.

2008-10-19T14:36:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we had a great time with some of Bart's family. Bart's Grandmother on his mother's side invited her children and grandchildren, including Aleah, Lisa and I to go out to dinner at the Texas Roadhouse. We all met back at Bart's house for delectably delicious chocolate cake and ice cream and to visit and get to know each other. We told funny stories about each other, especially Bart, and even had discussions on identity theft, gambling and a variety of other things. We had a great time getting to know some of Bart's wonderful and fun family. This picture show those in Bart's family who were there:

Here is a picture with Lisa and I and the girls with Bart's family:

We would like to thank Bart's Grandmother for a wonderful dinner and all of Bart's family for a great evening together.

2008-10-16T16:46:00.000-07:00

Riley found a worm in the sandbox today! he decided to call it "worm." how original. he said "its not disgusting!"

2008-10-13T16:49:00.000-07:00

look, thats me! i started playing bagpipes last year and i haven't been playing them for about a month but today i just started again! hurray! this is a picture of me just after a parade this summer. don't i look cute?

sarah!

2008-10-12T19:26:00.001-07:00

sarah's in 7th grade. she hates her braces, but aren't they cute? i think they match her glasses! she loves to socialize and play her clarinet. she's getting quite good at it.

the baby of the family

2008-10-12T19:08:00.000-07:00

summer just likes to look cute and play all day. She hates doing her chores! She is in third grade and her class is studying maps.

that dog

2008-10-12T19:05:00.000-07:00

here is Bella. her favorite thing is to go roll in the sandbox right after a bath. but we love her anyway!

The Holbrook Zoo April 2008

2008-10-12T19:02:00.000-07:00

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jenny

2008-10-12T18:59:00.001-07:00

jenny got her hair cut! oh my goodness! she looks just like fanny on the movie, funny girl. we watched that movie last night. jenny is in fifth grade. the loves doing her hair but i don't know what she'll do now that its so short!

2008-10-12T15:47:00.000-07:00

it snowed today! its way too early for snow. but its soooo pretty! we wen't outside in the storm to take pictures of the pretty flowers in the snow! aren't they pretty?

weddings! i love weddings! drinks all around!

2008-10-12T15:08:00.000-07:00

Aleah got engaged last sunday during conference to Bart Shively of south jordan. hurrayyyyyyy! they are getting married on December 27.

new blog

2008-10-12T15:06:00.001-07:00

hey, everyone! i'm doing a blog for the family. this is my first ever blog so i'm not sure what to put on it yet! its kind of boring right now but hopefuly people will tell me things to put on here and it will get more exiting