July 2013

Here's some fun things we did for the Hot yet rainy month of July

7 Peaks for the 4th

 Flying paper airplanes off the balcony

Jordan Ridge Park after a huge torrential downpour!

Kaitlyn's soccer tournament

Outdoor summer movies at the Bennetts

Swimming at grandma and grandpa's

The dock at Daybreak

Georgie afraid of the fireworks hid in the laundry basket

Brycen and Spencer skipping stones at the lake

Shredded tire on the boat trailer - Yikes!   (we were blessed to be safe)

Joe loves to fish

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Timmerman Cousin Reunion

We Love Summer!

Back to School

Year Round School can be great.  This year the summer was so short.  Only 3 weeks for the kiddos.    Kaitlyn will have Mrs. Libbert this year and Brycen has Ms. Handy

Stewart Falls

This week was pretty fun.  On Monday we decided to go on a hike for FHE.   I had heard about Stewart Falls recently and I wanted to see it, so we drove the Alpine loop

to Aspen Grove 

After our picnic, we hiked the 2 mile trail into the falls.  It took longer than I thought it would and since we had a late start and didn't start hiking until 8 pm we were worried we would end up hiking in the dark.

To make it more of a FHE lesson, I asked the kids when we were just about to the falls to turn

around and go back so that we wouldn't be lost in the dark......They said why?  I said "Do you want to go

back or do you want to ENDURE to the end!"  They said we want to make it to the Celestial Kingdom - we've

come this far...so we kept hiking and about 5 minutes later we were at the falls.

     It was cool, but we had to start hiking back quickly and we did hike back in the dark - but that was also kind of cool, we 

were using dad's cell phone flashlight and that was kind of fun    so it turned out to be a good experience

And Tyler had a blister so he hiked all the way back with one shoe off

A prompting leads to a discovery

My mom and I have been searching and searching for the name of our Great/2nd Great Grandmother for a long time.  She has searched since I was born.      I have honestly searched some days for 10 hours straight (because it is so addicting to keep looking) for the past 5 months.
Last night she called me and said she thought one of the names we had considered before might be the one--
she was feeling it was right.  The clue we uncovered and suddenly felt so strongly about was "Butch"
My mom had told me that my Great Grandmother used to call my Great Grandfather "Butch" - his name was William George Nelson.  We just thought it was her nickname for him.   My mom also was given a chain/locket with "Butch" engraven on it.   We have been looking for his mother - who we thought should have the Maiden name of Nelson.   However the realization came to us that Butch could stand for "Butcher" because there was a Louisa Butcher Nelson who had died in 1891 about the exact time that William George was taken into the home of the Binder's who raised him.  We decided to go downtown this morning and kept saying how "Butch" may be the clue.    We went into the special collections room and after several failed attempts at finding the right microfilm, I slowly scrolled through the names of Butcher......when I got to the "L's" for "Louisa" I could feel it was going to happen--and there it was...  Louisa Butcher's temple work was
done by William L Binder.   It was incredible to realize it.  We both yelled (a little too loudly for the room) "We found her!  We found her!  and we hugged and cried and it was so wonderful!

It brings tears of joy to think we know can know her name and more about our family....

I've already discovered some crazy stories that I will share in another post.

LOUISA MARIA BUTCHER (NELSON) is my Great Great Grandmother!

Elder Soutas

Carlos

district meeting

                                 Pedro

Sintra

Pedro receives the Priesthood