Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Flat Stanley Visits

My niece, Kylee, sent me her Flat Stanley to visit.  For those of you who don’t know who Flat Stanley is I will explain.  This is Flat Stanley.

DSC_0523 Flat Stanley is a boy who was flattened by a bulletin board.  So now he can can do all sorts of things like travel in an envelope courtesy of the United States Postal Service.   Here are our adventures with Stanley.

It had been almost 2 years since we had been to Jamon’s hometown Sparks, NV so we decided to travel the 8 hours to visit Jamon’s 2 brothers that still live there. 

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We stayed with Cameron and Natalie on their small farm.  They have some fun and unusual animals for a farm.

A Yak

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Two Emus.  One of them bite Flat Stanley.

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A Llama who likes to give kisses

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I think Jamon liked it.

They also have typical farm animals, cows, goats, dogs, chickens, cats, and pigs.

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We also:  played a lot of Kinect, which is so much fun,  Jamon went on a ride-a-long with his brother who is a police officer,  Had a dinner and a movie night, and Played Dance party (watch out Ethan and Kyle we’re going to win next time).

Liam started gnawing on a Clementine, which was quite entertaining.  We all sat and watched for a good 20 min.

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This is what it looked like when he was done.

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Cousins:  Emma, Austin/Ethan, Kaleb, Ethan/Austin, and Kyle.  (I still can’t tell Ethan and Austin apart,  I have to wait for someone to say their name in the morning and then remember what shirt they are wearing)

Thanks to Cameron, Natalie, Daron, and Jamee for letting us visit.  We had TONS of fun!

Oh, wait do you ever wonder what a REAL farmer’s wife looks like…

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straight from singing at a funeral to mowing lawns she can do it all, even in the same outfit.  Amazing.

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Wait!

Flat Stanley’s trip doesn’t end in Sparks NV,  we drove home long enough to do laundry and then travelled to our favorite Idaho town, Ola, to help with the Round-Up.

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Liam’s first Round-up.  Doesn’t he looked impressed.

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Instead of chasing the cows to the chute, Jamon just picks them up.

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A decent family picture… in our work clothes…whatever works.

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This is the new pet Turkey.  Not by choice though, that is not by Mom A, Dad A, Weston, and Carrie’s choice.  He just hung out with everyone for the weekend.  And it was opening day of the Turkey hunt.  Hmmm…

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Liam and cousin Jaxon had fun playing and eating cheerios together.

Jamon and I went Shooting.

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This is Daron, Jamon’s brother and police officer and my shooting instructor.  He looks so tough.

Then on Sunday the river started to flood over so we checked it out and took these pictures

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To end Flat Stanley’s trip to Utah he played with Jaxon and Liam and ended up loosing an arm.  Sorry Flat Stanley

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Thanks for visiting.  When you come back bring my nieces with you.

4 comments:

Adri Jacob said...

looks like such a fun trip and Liam is getting so big! gosh what a little stud you've got :)

carrie @ the boonie life said...

Wow, you all did a LOT of driving! It was so great to see you. What great times for Flat Stanley, too.

Tia said...

It is so fun to see your pictures and read about your adventures.
WE had a blast in Utah.

Natalie in Sparks said...

Great post! All those pics turned out awesome! Ha ha ha, I am surprised you really did put the lawnmower pics of me on there! Too funny! I guess it's good to capture those moments of "real life", even if you look dorky :)
Anyway, I'm glad you continued a fun family-visiting road trip. We are bummed we missed the round up weekend :( I like the picture of you, Mom and Carrie with your awesome cameras. Is Carrie's the only Canon?

Lastly, If your niece's class had a "contest" to see whose flat Stanley had the coolest trip, it would definitely be yours! Thanks again for coming out! We love you guys!