2nd week with Elise, Mav, Max and Bev

 We have had a fun and eventful week with Elise.  Having Elise here means having everyone around and we have a lot of fun family pictures.

Max and Mav, Hyeji, Dojin, and Dan

Roy took all the kids back to ride the horses so Max and Mav could have the experience.  We had 15 out of 16 grandchildren come.  Avie is still a little small for horseback riding.
Back row: Ollie and Doyeon; Middle Row: Elise, Effie, Ruby, Finn, Gunnar and Roy.
Middle front: Max, Ori, Beverly and Ila;
Front row: Maverick, Yuna, Dojin, Greta and Hyeji

Max

Effie, Ori, Mav and Max

Mav and Max

Ollie milking a goat

Gunnar milking a goat

Dojin

Finn

Max

Doyeon

Ollie

Mav

Dojin

Hyeji

Ruby

Yuna

Effie

Ori

Mav

The only one who wouldn't ride a horse was Greta.  It was too scary.

Ila and Yuna Sunday evening

Dojin

Beverly

Grandpa Rasband has been hounding Roy to get all of our kids together and do a musical program at his assisted living center.  We had been largely ignoring him since he said he didn't want a lot of that "classical stuff," and that's mostly what we play.  However, with Elise's visit, we knew we needed to make a trip down to Santaquin, so we hurriedly arranged to fulfill both responsibilities.  Elise played the guitar and sang.  Jennie sang some of her favorite songs--2 or three with her iphone playing the song, and one acapella.  Se has a great voice.  Caitlyn played a few violin numbers (I accompanied her on one, and Jieun accompanied her on another.  We also played a duet which sadly did not go well :{  Jieun played a solo and part of another for an encore.  It was a fairly amateurish performance, but the old people loved it because there were 14 children to watch while we played.

Grandpa Verl with his lady "friend"

Elise performing on the guitar with Effie and Mav watching closely

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Grandpa Verl with Avie Rain

Elise, Bevy and grandpa (on his phone)

Grandpa Verl with EFfie

Roy, Jennie and Avie Rain

Grandpa with Mav

Grandpa with Max and Mav

Grandpa with Bevy

 It is a good thing that I ice skate, so that I can go with my grandchildren.  We all met at the rink for an hour or so during the week.  They have these walkers so even the little ones can feel successful.  Gunnar and Ollie were there, too.  They are really getting comfortable on the ice.  Ollie is trying out hockey skates so he can learn to play, and Gunnar can now skate backwards, he even tries to go on one foot and does pretty well.  Hyeji, Doyeon and Yuna are pretty comfortable, too.

Nick, Ori and Effie

Mav, Max and Hyeji

Nick with Effie

Elise, Mav, Nick and Effie

Ice skating with Max, Yuna and Beverly

Finn and Hyeji

Treats after!

 When Elise comes in the summer, we always try to take a boating trip.  This year we went to Flaming Gorge from Thursday to Saturday.  Pics from the gorge:

Roy and Max driving the boat
We need an album of all the kids/grandkids driving the
boat with Roy!

Matt and Greta looking at deer

Ruby.  She even wears dresses camping

Greta and Mav

I found a little time to read

Greta and grandma

In the water with Maverick.  It was pretty cool,
but Mav loved it.

Max, Greta, Bevy and Grandma

Even Greta got a turn to drive

Grandpa helped Max catch a crawdad, but he wanted a fish.

naptime

In this picture, Mav is awake.  But he had a long nap on the tube earlier.

There is always at least one deer that comes for food in
the campground

Friends:  Mav and Ruby (Crista and Greta in background)

Going home Crista went the other direction towards Matt's family in Mapleton.  We stopped for a bite at Jimmy Johns in Evanston.

Max is a better eater than Mav.  He took a bite, but it took a long time for him to chew it:

We came home Saturday morning because I had my 40 year reunion that evening.  It inconveniently fell on Elise's birthday, but I signed up anyway.  A couple of my good friends from High School were in charge of putting it together and I wanted to support them.  I was glad I went.  It was fun to catch up with people.  There are 24 or my classmates that have passed away, but I didn't know about half of them (or at least I don't remember them).  Elise  had the family over for pizza.  The only injuries were Nick getting nicked on his face (from trying to unbind the balloon string from the ceiling fan with a knife), and Mav got his fingers slammed (I guess in a door).  We're finding that having that many kids over, and that much chaos can be a little dangerous.

Heidi Nelson Jenkins, me, AnnJanine Freeman Etzel, Jamine Simons Craeger

Ginger Davis Bitter on right

Roy and I ready to go to the reunion

We had the family again on Sunday night for chicken and steak.  The kids played a lot inside, but when the adults ventured outside, they all came out.  We got a rare picture of all 16 grandkids together.  Of course, to get 16 kids looking at the camera all at the same time is impossible, but we did okay by taking many shots. 

Ruby, Yuna, Ollie and Max on tramp

Max, Yuna, Ollie and Doyeon

Elise, blowing out the birthday candles.  Adrienne made the cake.  She's
really good at it!  Gunnar, Max, and Mav also in picture

Nick swinging one of the kids over his shoulder

Dances and dressups: Effie, Doyeon, Yuna, Ori and Max

Effie, Doyeon, Yuna, Max and Ollie

Front row: Ruby, Yuna, Ori with Avi, Effie, Max holding Beverly, Doyeon, Dojin, Finn, Hyeji holding Greta, Maverick
Back row: Gunnar holding Ila, Ollie.