The Fam: 2006

I love making photo books because I get to see happy and cute pictures of my family usually in celebration mode. These pictures help me feel better about being a mom.

Last week I finished up a book on 2006-07. Here are some highlights from our family's activities in 2006 after we got home from Germany at the end of May:

My sister Heidi married Aaron Ferguson:

My SIL found really cute dresses and added sleeves for all the granddaughters:

We bought a van on eBay, grew a garden and went on a hike:
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David did his Eagle Project of collecting junk:

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We took family pictures up by Tibble Fork:

Everett turned 8 and got baptized:

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We went on a family vacation, camping at Lake Tahoe, and then driving to Davis, CA, where my grandparents lived so that Jan could get his patriarchal blessing from my grandfather:

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We also went to the Sacramento Temple open house:

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We celebrated my mother's 60th birthday:

David went on marching band tour and Scott and I went as chaperones:

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The boys played duets in the duet festival:

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We celebrated Halloween:

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We celebrated Scott's mother's 75th birthday:

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After Christmas we went to Snow Canyon State Park and explored the interesting formations there:

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It was a good year!

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