2010 Ellison Family Reunion Scrapbook

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My Summer Vacation

The Ellison Cousins minus Montana who is On his Mission in Honduras

We were fortunate enough to be able to go to Southern California for a family fun get-away and Ellison family reunion a few weeks ago.  It was so much fun and the pictures capture only a glimpse of the memories we all had.  Here are just a few photos of what we did over the last two weeks.  We hope you enjoy.

Cousins During the Reunion and Newport Beach

Bailey, McKenna, Lauren, Seer, and Kaiden

Grandpa Rex and Seer

McKenna and Seer at Newport Beach

The Waves Caught Kaiden and McKenna

The Waves Caught Us and No I Wasn't Expecting to Get Wet

Oceanside before the Ocean

Shamu Show at Seaworld

McKenna Feeding the Dolphin

Mama and Seer Petting Dolphin

Kaiden Petting the Dolphin

End of the Day at Seaworld

Seer and Daddy on the Skyline at the Zoo

Seer Petting a Goat at the Zoo

San Diego Zoo July 2010

Legoland, California July 2010

Fall Creek Summer Fun

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Josh's "Sketch"

McKenna really loves to draw horses so I asked if Josh could do a quick sketch to help her learn to draw them. This was the result. Impressive.

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We seem to spend quite a few time in the car dropping of daddy and picking him up for our business so needless to say mom has some time on her hands.

We also spend a lot of time in the office and Seer has begun to try to do what the big boys do like homework. It looks like she's ready to help Kaiden out in first grade math already too.

Seer began taking her steps this week. There is nothing cuter than your precious baby grinning from ear to ear walking to you.

Seer's First Backyard Adventure

We have been working on our backyard since November of 2009. We decided to tear out all of our grass and put a huge concrete slab in along with only hardscape materials mainly because of the dog, but also because of the natural and beautiful look of rocks, logs, etc. We've both always loved dryer climates like Bend, Oregon, Arizona, and Utah landscapes so Josh designed the project and chose the materials we used.

We both did the work (although of course I'm 10 times stronger than Josh so I did 75% of it) which still has a lot more to go. We shoveled somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 truckloads of dirt, gravel, river rock, boulders, etc. If you know Josh you know that his trucks are lifted 8-10 inches and are huge. So we're talking about 37,500 pounds of material that we have shoveled, dumped, and spread out in our backyard.

We wanted to eliminate the swamp land in our yard so we had to elevate it quite a bit.

I plan to have Josh take some professional pictures of the final project. We still have a patio cover to build, a new gate to build and install, concrete staining, run a gas line to our fire pit, and some more planting to do. But is where we can enjoy it now and Seer along with her siblings and cousins got to crawl around outside for the first time today.

She loves the outdoors and truly loved it. She didn't seem to be bothered by the rocky terrain and munched on a few (with supervision of course) with success.

We're looking forward to getting the kids a trampoline and hosting a hot dog party with the fire pit soon.