So in response to Stacy's blog...what were you doing 5-10-15-20 years ago this is what we were doing...

5 years... ago August 2003

Shawn and Christy were home from school so we decided to take the kids on a rafting trip down the Russian River. It was a lazy river...lots of rowing involved. Christy, Shawn and Jimmy got in one canoe and Mike and I got in another. As we started off there was a little island in the river. Mike and I chose to go to the right...the kids chose to go on the left. Big mistake!! As Mike and I were rowing along we could hear the kids laughing, their canoe dragging on the ground, and each of them yelling directions to each other...after quite a while they appeared having had to get out of their boat and push it along a very shallow area. As we paddled down the river...which isn't as easy as it looks...the kids were having their troubles going from one side of the river to the other trying to straighten their path. Mike and I were in the lead when we heard screaming...we turned around just in time to see the kids rowing right for some large low hanging trees. Jimmy ducked, Shawn managed to get down but poor hapless Christy was brushed right off her seat by the tree limbs. It was a fun trip...just don't ask the kids though who have another opinion of the trip down the river!

Stopping to take a swim.

10 years ago...August 1998

Shawn had just graduated from High School and Christy had graduated from 8the. grade.

We took Cory and dropped him off at Ricks College for his 2nd. year and Stacy off at BYU for her 1st year.

We got to meet Cory's new girlfriend Kristal!

Jimmy spent a lot of time in the pool

After we left Cory we got a call from him. He told us that he had left one of his suitcases in our car top carrier we were already about half way to Salt Lake. It had his Sunday clothes and shoes that he would need the next day plus a lot of his other clothes. We found out what time the bus to Rexburg leaves the Salt Lake airport and hurried to the airport. Mike circled the airport while Stacy and I jumped out. We found where the bus stopped. There were what looked like some students waiting so we went up to one girl and asked her if she was going to Rexburg. She was so we explained to her what happened to Cory's suitcase and asked her if she would take the suitcase with her to Rexburg and that Cory would get it when she got off the bus in Rexburg. She was really nice and said she would...so we gave her $20. for her trouble and Cory's suitcase. Just as we finished handing over Cory's suitcase the bus came! We had made it to the airport just in the nick of time! Cory was able to meet the bus there in Rexburg and retrieve his suitcase...problem solved! Then we went on to Provo to get Stacy all set up in her new apartment at the "Y".

We didn't meet Stacy's new boyfriend til the next summer when we went to bring her back home for the summer but you will recognize him!

15 years ago...August 1993 We went to Flaming George to go camping and boating. My grandparents, mother and Brother and his family also went. We started off by going to St. George for a week then driving to Orem for a visit with the Patten relations then on to Flaming George.

20 years ago...August 1988

A trip to Disneyland! We also started the foundation to our new addition!

And it all seemed like only yesterday!