August 2017

Huckleberry picking!!! We cannot disclose the secret location where the berries are or too many people will be competing for them ;). 

Jillian tried a hammock, and fell asleep.

Rosie discussing how to take care of a baby doll on the front porch.

We found this little furball abandoned by its mother, stuck in our neighbor's fire pit. Chayce had been asking for a pet for the last two years, and Jillian finally acquiesced. He has been dubbed Derp. 

Stephen took the children to the county fair.

Sheriff Q.

Rosie wanted to be sheriff too, but was too short. So here we have sheriff fuzz-neck.

A batch of ginger beer made with our honey.

Stephen's scouts planned a backpacking trip to the top of the Preston Valley trail in Green Canyon (which is not connected in anyway to Preston Valley itself, nor to the Preston Valley camp ground located in Logan Canyon). This is a picture of Logan Peak, one of the Peaks Stephen climbed last month.

July 2017

Quinton and Stephen went on a four-wheeler ride up Providence Canyon and took pictures up at the quarry. 

Originally, Quinton's tent was far away from Stephen's hammock, but a little voice came out shortly after bed, "can I come closer to you dad?"

 

Stephen borrowed a neighbor's four wheeler and drove forest roads to Garden City with Brent Fresz and David & Jaden Knight.

Payge crossing the 'bridge' to our campsite. She and Stephen used the same campsite as Quinton did a few nights before.

Stephen climbed Little Baldy, Logan Peak, Millville Peak, and Big Baldy all in one day. Ever time he looked down, his neck was in the shade of his hat. But he didn't think what happened when he looked back up. He had a bad sunburn.

The view from Logan Peak.

We failed to think it through and planned a trip to Bear Lake over the 4th of July weekend. There was no room. So we went to Montpelier and had a picnic with Grandpa and Grandma, Effie and Rogan, Mandi and her kids, and Jessica. The Moody's were with Stephen from Indiana, while Jillian and Cheryl where with their friends hike near the west end of Uintah National Forest. 

Mandi was still in the area visiting from Nashville, and we hiked up to Donut Falls with the crew.

 

Payge was queen of the mountain.

June 2017

After memorial day, we brought Grandma Tueller's piano home with us. Hoping to be able to have duets, we placed it next to the electronic keyboard. Which promptly died. Never to work again.

Zachary, Kamden, Miles, and Logan installed shelves into the scout trailer.

She's a montser. AAaaaahahahawawaa.

Payge was running in the utility easement behind our house and fell on some lava rock. We could see the bone underneath. Six stitches and no bending the knee for a week.

Playing in the waterfall at the Providence Canyon quarry.

The road going above the quarry dead ends, and someone left this message. After trying to go a little higher, Stephen had to concede.

Jillian and Melissa.

LaMarr and Melissa.

Quinton's head, and Chayce with the waterfall in the background.

Little bitty Rosie tosies.

Summer group photo.

Scout camp. The boys attempted a raft, but ran out of logs. They tried floating it anyways. It didn't (float).

Zachary and Logan working on the game design merit badge.

Stephen told his car load he would take them to Egypt on the way home from scout camp. They were skeptical, but Stephen delivered. 

May 2017

Jillian and Stephen were married at the Idaho Falls temple in 2001. Sixteen years later the temple was renovated and we went to the open house with our children.

After the temple open house, we went to Rexburg to visit grandpa and babci browing. Here are Traycin and Payge.

Stephen dug holes to put in a trellis for hardy kiwi vines. Before the posts went in, Rosie and Quinton asked to be put in the holes.

An elusive subterranean Rosie. 

One of the baby kiwi vines.

A late May snow storm damaged these raspberry canes. We lost most of the fruit on our trees, and some of our grape vines died back to the ground.

Our elder's quorum president has several daughters, and changed the father/son campout out to a father/child camp. We went to the Cinnamon creek girls camp site, and the kids had a great time. In the back ground is Zachary and Payge, and Logan Fresz and Chayce by the fire pit (they are trying to, and eventually succeeded in lighting a fire).

Logan gave Quinton and Rosie rides on the hand cart.

Rosie tried hammock camping with dad. No one slept.

The completed kiwi trellis, which we design to double as hammock hanging posts.

The whole crew up at the quarry in Providence canyon.

Despite the late freeze, the greens and herbs did great.

Payge riding uncle Rao's horse in Geneva.

Zachary learned how to change a tire. The car fell off the jack and we had to get another jack to fix it. Luckily, there are plenty of large jacks in grandpa Tueller's shop.

Chayce and Quinton on the horse.

Rosie's turn.

Rogan, Rosie, and Quinton being lead by Payge.

Grandpa Tueller giving the Memorial day dedication at the Geneva cemetery.

Aunt Rinny taming the curls.

We put together a green house for Grandma Tueller.