Had a great time at our Lakewood Gang Reunion

in St. George this last weekend.

GOOD NEWS!

Herschel was invited to train with US Olympic Goalball Team at Lake Placid in New York. He'll be there the second week of November. It's kind of an audition camp as they begin the process to determine the Olympic team for the London 2012 Paralympics. Whatever happens in the next couple years, being invited to this training is a big honor.

Herschel is excited and we're all proud of him.

Chris Dodds, who plays with Herschel on the Utah Men's team has been on the olympic team for the last two summer games and was asked to recommend and rank 4 players he knows of to replace his spot on the olympic team (Chris is retiring) and he told Herschel he turned in his name as, in Chris' opinion, the #1 potential replacement. So that is kind of how the invitation to the training in NY came about.

I think at this point it is a far distant dream of Herschel's to go to the London Olympics, but this opportunity is awesome for him on its own.

Another Drew Danburry show, another great night.

SO amazing. So energizing. Thanks Drew! (and Lynette!)

and finally, the wakeboarding pics!

Ok sorry for the mass posting, i should have been better about this and posted as these events happened. . .here is a pic around Geneva and the view from our new place, that is Mt Saleve in the background and technically in France. . .France is only like 2 miles away from us. . .

John went downhill mountain biking in Morzine, France with his American friend, Craig, who came out to visit. I opted out of this trip since I like my teeth and the idea of having to wear a full face helmet does not appeal. Also going up the ski lift to come down, not my kinda fun and, its very muddy. I had to wash the clothes John wore, twice and his shirt is still stained with mud, its now his official mountain biking shirt!

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!