Monday, August 29, 2011

Hawley Creek and Meadow Lake

Hawley Creek
 Look at those muscles!
Drake, Isaiah, Lukas and Gavin
(Look how white my kid is!!!)
Gavin showing me his fish. Taiya found a jar of minnows (someone's fish bait) and was so excited. She gave all the cousins some and they put them in their water bottles. My sister-in-law told me she caught Gavin drinking from the bottle with the fish in there, YUCK!
 Maycee, Cassie and Alex
 Madilyn and Savannah
 Connelly was a little to animated with his story and fell back into the bushes. It was hilarious!
 Like father, like son
 I decided that Leadore reminds me a lot of Radiator Springs
 (on Cars)
 On the way to Meadow Lake we passed some "real cowboys" rounding up their herd


Meadow Lake
 Getting the hook ready. I love how clear and gorgeous the water is
 Playing in the lake. Lukas, Madilyn, Cassie, Maycee, Isaiah, Drake and Sadie
 Grandma Fry teaching the grandkids how to fish
Cherie, Treysen, and Gavin
 Admiring the view
Connelly, Aidyn, Treysen, Taiya, Madilyn, Gavin, Gma Fry and Drake
 It was so warm that day, especially for an elevation of over 9100 ft
Taiya, Treysen, Lukas, Gavin and Madilyn
 Gavin took to eating straight from grandma's brick of cheese. I promise I did teach him better
 Frank, Connelly, Cody, Gavin and Sherri
Gavin was "teaching" Sherri how to fish. He was telling her to "throw it out really far" and then once she did that he would tell her "now let it sit for a minute". It was pretty funny.
 We ran into one of my nursing school buddies and he offered to let us use his canoe and we couldn't resist. Cody and Connelly took it out and had more luck than fishing from the shore.
 There were 6 mountain sheep up on the ridge and we were able to get a good look at them through the binoculars. There were 5 adults and a little baby! It was fun to watch them.
 A couple of our friends Frank and Sherri who came up to hang out with us for the day. Gavin actually took this picture himself, not to shabby for a 4 year old
 Being a boy and playing with the worms
 Gavin with the camera again
 My bro-in-law Connelly
 Cody  feeding me grapes
(another pic by Gavin)
 We took a break from fishing and decided to hike up to one of the lakes/ponds on the other side of the mountain. We followed the directions Chris gave us (my school buddy) and just ended up walking in one big circle, but it was still very pretty.
 A few from the hike. If it wouldn't have been over cast you could've seen how beautiful the colors in the lake are. The water is so crystal clear. You can literally see the fish on the end of your line and watch then be reeled in, it's amazing.
 This tree was orange and black and all twisted.
 Two trees in one
 Annual Meadow Lake Family Pic
 Cody teaching Gavin how to gut fish
Connelly actually asked Cody if the Fish and Game put the holes in the fish so they were easier to gut. (referring to the fishes anus). Cody couldn't believe it! I told him he still had lots to teach his little brother.
Rinsing them all out.

We had the fish for dinner Sunday night and Gavin loved them. He ate an entire fish all by himself.

Change is inevitable

I feel like my entire life is in an upheaval right now, everything is changing, except this little guy
We went to Twin Bridges with a bunch of families from our ward for FHE. Gavin was wading in the water with a bunch of the other kids when he tripped and soaked himself from head to toe. I didn't think about bringing extra clothes so he got to wear my jacket over his jacket and go commando for the rest of the night
Gavin dressed himself for church, plaid and stripes! He takes after his daddy!

To elaborate (just a little) on my life being in upheaval: Let me begin by saying it's no where near what my friend Sara is going through, but it's still a little to crazy for me right now. I don't like change and I have decided I just want this year to be over!!! I may expand later (not in the mood right now) but let me just say that I'm getting a new job, just got a new calling (a big one) at church, if everything goes as planned we will be adding 2 new additions to our family and to top it off I had a lady back into me the other day so my car needs a new bumper! But my family is healthy, we have good jobs and we are surrounded by good friends and family, so it's all just a drop in the hat, right?

Fry Reunion

The Fry Reunion has been at Lava Hot Springs since Cody and I have been married, but this year they decided to have it at Reinheart Park in Idaho Falls. We eat and then the kids go play while the adults talk, pretty uneventful. The only exciting thing is that for the past 2 years someone has pooped in the pool and we have to get out. I guess even the babies need some excitement!
 Gavin's first trip down the slide
 Madi, Alex, Alyssa, Jason and Isaiah
 Nice pose G-man!
Savannah

It's a .....

Raini (my co-worker and friend) is expecting baby #2 which is super exciting. She is due Nov. 30th and has already had her ultra sound to determine the sex of her baby. She didn't want to know so she had the ultrasound tech write it down and put it in an envelope which she gave to her mom so she could go shopping for her and be prepared when the little bundle of joy comes. Well, it has been killing us for weeks that we don't know so finally we got Raini to cave and she let us (try) to do an ultrasound on her on the condition that when we got close to that area we would tell her so she could close her eyes and we couldn't say a word and spoil it for her.
 We (actually Marilyn) did pretty good despite our non-existent training and we were able to see it's heart, hands, feet, spine and even got a little profile pic for Raini. We never did figure out what it was because it's legs were crossed so we just have to continue to wait, but it was still fun!

For Karen cuz she LOVES it!

 Remember this? I smashed my finger in my garage car door on the 5th of July

It looked so much better about a week after and I thought for sure I was going to save my nail, but alas, it got to the point where it was coming off and kept catching on things. I was too chicken to yank it off myself and I know for sure Cody wouldn't do it, so to wind down at the end of a 13 hour surgery day at work I enlisted "Dr. Dave" to save the day and thanks to Raini it was all caught on video for your viewing pleasure!



Untitled from Teri Fry on Vimeo.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Butikofers meet Woodstock

Annual Butikofer Family Reunion @ Buttermilk Campground July 27-31
The Theme: Butikofers meet Woodstock aka Buti Stock
Warning: LOTS of pics!
 Grant and Kelly with a ringer and 2 leaners during our annual horse shoe tournament. Due to my amazing horse shoe throwing talent I was out after the second round, but I did get one ringer and hit knocked the shovel away from the tree multiple times
 Cody and Gavin starting a new arm wrestling tradition
 Tie-dying our t-shirts. It wouldn't be the 60's without tie dye!
 No, that's not a crime scene, it's Gavin wrapped up in his towel his way
 New Best Buds: Gavin and Teagan
 Uncle Jeff is down to 8 Lives after taking an arrow to the head
 Playing The Price is Right- it began in the 60's
 Aunt Susan celebrating after winning the Showcase Showdown!
 Gavin loved to hold the crawdads even after getting "bited"
 We caught a little over 20, a slow crawdad night
 Faith, Gavin, Karen and Madisen on one of our many 4 wheeling rides
 Faith finally decided to come to the Dark Side and ride with me!
 My brother Kenny and nephew Taylor...don't ask, he's crazy!
Our annual family auction. My mom's homemade levi quilt sold for $160, woot woot!
 Out Hot Rods for the Drag Racing -another essential part of the 60's
Chet's, Kenny's, Mom's, Mine, Faith's, Taylors and Cody's
Mine was vintage, made over 20 years ago and made it pretty far into the elimination round
 Getting dinner ready for our Drive In: Burgers and Fries
 I LOVE my sister-in-law
 Racing for Pink Slips
 On your mark, get set, GO!
 Hanging around and licking?!? Gross
 The winners: Kelly and Rylee


SKIT NIGHT
Each family had to pick a band from the 60's and perform one of there songs. The pictures are priceless, but the videos are so much better!!!  My family was the Beach Boys and the boys refused to sing so we dressed them up as the "California Girls"
 Left to Right:
Taylor-Northern Girl
Cody- California Girl
Dad- Mid-west Farmer's Daughter
Paul - Southern Girl
Kenny - West Coast
Chet - East Coast Girl
Gavin - Miniature Beach Boy
 The Gray's as the Beatles
 Keith's Family as Johnny Cash
 Patricia as Leslie Gore
 Anselmo's as ABBA
 Blakely's as the Beach Boys
 Jeff's Family as The Monkees
 Wil as Jimmie Hendrix, Mystrie as a random 60's girl and Kelly as Archie
 The Whole Gang 2011
(and this isn't even all of us!)
 Our New Family Portrait
 Three Amigos: Quinton, Teagan and Gavin
 Racing in the Kid Olympics
 Bringing back an Old Tradition
We use to do this when we were kids over 20 years ago
 The great grand-kids
 The youngest members of our family attending
Jaxon and Cole
 Brown nosers
Taylor, Faith and Gavin in Island Park Reservoir