Fete de Geneve, this is a festival that lasts about 5 weeks in the summer time, carnival rides and food stalls and a stage are set up along the lake and in the Jardin Anglais. . .at the end of the fete they do a 50 minute firework show, its incredible, but you kinda are over it after 10 minutes. But I do love fireworks, this show puts Disneyland to shame!

Monaco, we stayed in friends apartment, nice view of the Med!

Cinelac. . . went to see The Proposal at the Cinelac in July. . .what a nice way to see a movie, right?!

Hiya Fam!

Been a while since we last posted, and a lot has happened. Friends wedding in the UK in July, friends have come out to visit a few weekends, went to Monaco to visit friends, went to NYC for a wedding and to see peeps and we moved to a new apartment. Loving the new apartment, so nice and sunny and so much bigger, actually have closet space and parking, before we had to park 10 mins walk away, not fun in the Geneva winter!

Went wakeboarding in Annecy, France last weekend, same place we went paragliding, it was a lot of fun. My 2nd attempt and it was much better to try it in the daylight! We are off to Malaysia tomorrow, so wanted to post these pics before we return. We are there for a few weeks, so will post at the end of the month!

Hope all is well with everyone and their summers were awesome!

Lots of Love,

Dana & John

Missing You

Doing a little geneology and ran across this old photo of this handsome couple who could possibly be distant relatives.

Oy Vey!

Adam in concert.

Whitney has been doing a little modeling. This is her

first billboard downtown Provo, Utah.

Got a part-time job moonlighting (literally) with NASA.

Here is me on my first day on the job.

Dean becomes art

(with at least three deeply-moved admirers.)

Maria & Dean flying home (first class of course).

Prognosis: CANCER FREE

This picture is a little late, but still worthy of sharing. It was so fun to have Penelope here... it is indescribable. Thanks for the visit Penelope!

We enjoyed having Great-Grandma Kelly come to visit!

Little Rhett was swimming in the backyard and wanted to climb right up on her lap, so we had to get his towel so he couldn't drench her. Then he snuggled right up with his graham cracker.

We love Grandma!

Dean & Mom

La Dolce Vita for lunch

Provo, Utah

circa 2009

We LOVED having Penelope in Denver for three weeks.

We all have such wonderful memories of the grandkids

going to Mom & Dad's in Mo., we wanted to carry on the

tradition ( except for the MO. part!!!)

playing with the Stamps as much as we can

watching the sunset together almost every night

on hill 555

going on adventures

going on the Vail Pass bike ride (down hill both ways)

What a great 4th of July weekend!

The Harmon Clan made their way south to the Kehr's and good times were had by all!

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We spent the holiday weekend at a beach cottage by our house.

This is us on the back porch.

We were delighted that the Erics wanted to come on down Friday.

They stayed in the cottage and we all had so much fun.

We all did a lot of swimming, snacking, talking, sand digging, sunning , etc. 

 The weather was perfect and it was so relaxing and enjoyable to catch up with the cousins.

This is the handsome boy Bryce.
Sage and Penelope

diggin' in the sand

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After a nice long day in the sun we all got cleaned up and went to our favorite field to watch the fireworks.

The kids all were great while they waited for the show to begin.

The brood (plus a couple neighbor friends of ours).

Darling girls -- were so happy to have a friend their age.

beautiful lovelies giggling

The firework display was awesome. 

 There was lots of oooohs and aaaaaahs.

The grand finale was a perfect ending to a perfect day.

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Sunday

We all jumped up and went to 9 am church and then to our house for some lunch, photo ops, swing time and goodbyes.  

Ivy was very popular because she is SO adorable 

and mobile and well tempered.

She was passed around a bit and a good sport about it too.

nice family photo

As you can see, I couldn't get enough of these two.

  They were always just so happy and cute.

A little Show and Tell from the camera

Getting some energy out before the road trip.

I really enjoyed observing Eric and Carma's extraordinary parenting skills.  

They are such an example of love, patience and kindness.

Every one is always invited to visit us.  Maybe you should check with Eric & Carma for any warnings but I hope they were as happy with their trip as we were with having them here.

Erics -- Thank you for your efforts

 and for sharing your vacation days with us.

Good work at making some memories!

Can't forget John! 

Here is a short video, I was the pilot. . . .well, while he was filming. . . 

Hi All!

Been a long time posting, but today John surprised me and we went Paragliding over Lake Annecy in France.  It was a beautiful day and we both really enjoyed ourselves.  After we had lunch and then lounged by the lake at a co-worker of Johns house he is renting for the year.  We are back in Geneva now and here for most of the summer, of course we have weddings, one in the UK in July and then one in NYC in August.  Then off to Malaysia in September to visit John's brother, David, and for vacay!

House is coming along. . .the big stuff has been complete, now its just making it personal and homey.  

It was great to see those of you who could make it to Di and Ben's wedding and hopefully we will be out west soon and see you again!

Lots of love,

Dana & John Melsom

Maria played hooky and drove up to Jacksonville, FL

to join me on one of my layovers. We had a great time,

went to beach, ate out at new places and had a

fun little mini-honeymoon (again.) Very nice

all while Delta was paying me my tax-free per diem.

Gotta love it baby.

(PS. That is NOT Maria pictured in the green bathing suit

in the lower photo. That is one of the local Floridian dolls.)

The FINAL Di & Ben Wedding photos are now posted. Click on this link http://www.barnetphotography.com/ and click on WEDDING and then click on CLIENT.
Type the password "Hecht" and capitalize the"H". Hope you enjoy.....Ken

Summer Stamps says hello!



head over to the stevestamps.com for several new pictures!

The photographer from Di and Ben's wedding has posted a few photos on their blog. By the end of next week, there should be over 1,000 pictures online to view. I will let you know the login instructions and password once they are posted. Click on the link below and open the BlogBarnet on the far right of their home page if you wish to view the few that are posted at this time.

www.barnetphotography.com