Eli's two!

Eli's two!

Labor Day at Bear Lake

The fam at the campsite at the Bear Lake KOA. It wasn’t really a campsite, it was more like an RV park, but for small tents.



Tired boy! This kid never lays down, unless he is sleeping in his bed. Here he just wanted to lay on the grass and have Dad rub his feet.



The boys loved playing in the sand. After this trip, we just might invest in a sand box.



Owen constructing a super highway.



Got the whole family together for a photo on the last day.

Time for an update!

So not much has changed since the last posting, exept for: Michael came home his mission, Dave left his job with Otsuka Pharmaceuticals after almost five years, Courtney came home to visit few weeks during the middle of his Afghanistan tour, Nate came home from his mission, the Prisbrey family hosted the Sneddon family reunion, Karen passed away and Dave and Steve turned 33. Other than that, things haven't really changed:).

This summer has actually been very busy. It all started off with Michael coming home. He was in Raleigh, NC. He has been home for a few months and recently made Weber State's cheer team.

Shortly after Michael came home, Dave left Otsuka and took a job with a company called Biohorizons, selling dental implants. Changing jobs is not fun, although Dave is really beginning to love it. Randy, Dave's dad owns a dental lab and has helped him better understand the industry. Steve, Dave's twin brother works for Colgate and also sells to dentists. Part of Dave's job responsibility is to go into surgery and explain to the surgeon how to use their surgical products. One of his concerns was that he wouldn't be able to make it through a surgery without getting queasy. So far, so good.

In late June the Dave, Steve and Anne hosted the Prisbrey reunion. It was nice seeing everyone there. Donna, Vern, Bill and Jennifer drove up from California, while Uncle Russ, Lance and Luke came up from Florida. The rest of the gang, Karen and her family, and Wendy and her girls came from the Utah County area. We had a great time playing water games and visiting. The fun and good feelings were short lived after a couple weeks later that Karen, who is Dave's cousin, died. It was very sad. She was in her late thirties and has four children from 18-12 years old.

Nate came home from his mission too. He also looked great. During the same week, Court came home to visit for two weeks before going back to finish his Afghanistan tour. His wife Amanda and his three boys stayed for almost a month with Sarah's parents. It was fun having everyone home. Candice and Bryant even made a surprise visit on the 4th of July. No one knew they were coming. On the morning of the fourth, Candice and Bryant showed up and rang the doorbell. It was a lot of fun having everyone there.

It has been a busy, but fun summer. We are hoping to do a few more fun summer things before fall comes. It won't be long before we have our Halloween parties at Stacy's and Steve's houses.

Memories Part 2

The enterance to the stage. We all have a memory or two about walking up those stairs for a play or a performance.



The library. I wish I could remember the librarian's name. I can see her sitting at her desk with her glasses halfway down her nose. If anyone can remember her name, leave it in a comment.



The gym, aka.. the rollerskating rink. We all remember the many circles that we skated in here listening to "Eye of the Tiger" and all of the other great 80's songs.



The stage. I personally couldn't help but remember the breakdancing perfomance with Chad Benson, Dana Shiera, Brandon Romer and myself. Or the Christmas play with Stacy, Steven and I as the reindeer.



Another view of the stage/gymnasium. You can see where Jared crashed on his rollerskates nose first into the bleachers.

A Trip Down Memory Lane

Stacy invited me to attend Wyatt's school program. I was very excited to see the program and to be able to walk through the old elementary school that all of us attended. Wyatt did a great job in his program. He had a speaking part that made us all laugh. The whole grade sang a number of songs about "Tall Tales." It was very fun. After, Stacy and I walked around and took a bunch of pictures of some of the most memorable places. The school will be demolished in a year, so I was glad that that I had a reason to walk through the school without feeling like a creepy old man.

We all loved going to school here. Stacy and I reminisced about the many "Friday night Rollerscating parties" and "Friday night movies." Every Friday around 2:00 PM, just after recess, you could smell the popcorn machine getting ready.

Good old North Ogden Elementary School.



The famous enterance and stairway.



The drinking fountain up the stairs.



The hallway up to the library.



Another picture of the hallway that leads up to the library. It's kind of a creepy old school, but definitely very neat!

Welcome Home Elder Prisbrey!

Hard to believe that it has been two years. On April 5th, it will be two years exactly. On the 9th Michael will come home. We can't wait to see him!

We will take alot of pictures at the airport and will post them soon.

Congrats Candice and Bryant

Olivia Whitney Smith was born on March 18th at 5:17 pm. She weighed 6 pounds and 2 ounces and is 19 inches long. We are very excited for you both and can't wait to see her.

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Owen, The Man of Many Superheros.

A Good Deed for the Day

Several months ago, as I was in the process of replacing a digital camera -that died a day before we went to Disneyland- and a cell phone, I came across the Apple iphone. Apple had just dropped the price of the iphone and I read that the camera in the phone was as good, if not a little better than the one that died on us. So I decided to get it.

The phone is great. All of the pictures on this blog were taken with the iphone. We have become "picture takers" now that we have a camera on us everywhere we go. Last Friday as I was traveling home from the D.C. area I lost my iphone at the Dulles International airport. When I realized that it was missing I began retracing all of my steps. I searched every possible place that I had been in the terminal. I was sick inside. Having lost a phone before, I knew that the chances of finding it were slim to none. Not only was I distressed about the cost of replacing it, I thought about all of the contacts that were stored, the music saved on the ipod and the irreplacable pictures. As I spoke with an airport officer about the description of the phone, he told me to go ahead and cancel the service immediately, because I wasn't ever going to see it again.

When I arrived home from the airport and checked our answering machine, there was a message from the Dulles International Airport lost and found. Someone had turned it in. I called the airport and set up arrangements to have it delivered to my house, and before I hung up I asked if they knew who turned it in. The lady told me that she had no information about the person who found it.

Whoever you are, you made my day. And if you frequent random blog sites about family photos/vacations/gatherings and happen to stumble upon this one, thank you.

Hawaii Trip (Part 3) Go to bottom of page for more Hawaii pics

We made a stop at the north shore to see the big waves! It's hard to tell by the picture but there were 15' waves breaking. We noticed there were cameras filming a group of surfers. We later found out that it was ESPN, and we heard that one of the surfers later may have broken his neck. Scary! There were signs all over that said enter at your own risk. That was enough for us to just watch from the beach.

Directly behind the water was a huge cliff. It was amazing to be able to take a picture of the waves, then turn 180 degrees and take a picture of a beautiful cliff. At the bottom of the cliff was a huge cave that we all walked through.
Us walking into the enterance of the cave. It was huge. It went back a few hundred yards and opened up into a huge room.
When the last surfing attempt in CA didn't go so great for Dave, he vowed to never try it again. This time, because of his rashguard, things went a lot better!

Dave surfing at Hanalei Beach.

Hawaii Trip (Part 2)

Kauai was so much fun. We left our two kids at home and went over there with Marisa, John, Candice and Bryant (Sarah's parents and sister and brother in law) Bryant grew up on Oahu, so he was a nice guide to have. We rented a van and drove around the island a few different times. The scenery was unbelievable. We could not believe that we had just left a foot of snow, with more on the way. For us, it was like a second honeymoon. We had such a fun time together. It was a bit hard not having the kids with us, but in a way it was also nice just being the two of us. Dave purchased a Hawaiian music CD from a vendor at the grocery store. The artist's name is Israel Kamakawiwo`ole, or "braddah IZ." We listened to the CD everytime we drove in the car, which was most of every day. We constantly joked how everywhere you looked the scenery looked like a postcard.
John and Marisa at the northshore beach outside of Hanalei Bay.
The hula dancers at the luau. We both were asked to get up and shake it with the dancers. We also both looked rediculous.
Dave and Sarah at the Kilauea Lighthouse. We saw a few whales and boobies here. (Boobies are just birds)
We definitely want to go back to Kauai. It was paradise. Hopefully one day we could get another group together and spend another week, or longer. When we picked up the rental car, the agent asked us if it was going to be hard to leave for home. He told us that he came on vacation 20 years earlier and never went home. After spending the week there, we understood why.

Hawaii Trip (Part 1)

(Before you read, you have to click play on the mp3 player to hear 'Bradda IZ'... just to get the full effect. )

In late January of 2008 we went to Kauai, Hawaii on vacation. We flew out to San Francisco on a Friday night and stayed with Candice and Bryant, Sarah's sister and her husband. We woke early to catch a 9:00 AM flight on Hawaiian Airlines. As we approached the ticket counter, we noticed huge lines for every other airline, except Hawaiian, which had no lines. There were a lot of people looking at us with our shorts and t-shirts and probably wishing they could trade places with us. We landed in Oahu and had a three hour layover. We hurried and caught a bus to Pearl Harbor. We wished we would have had more time to see the many museums. After spending a little over an hour at Pearl Harbor, we caught a taxi back to the airport and then flew over the island of Kauai. Kauai was incredible! It was so green and beautiful. There were large, green mountains in the background with waterfalls that formed from the rain. Sarah and Dave standing over a look out point just outside our condo. We were able to see whales and even a sea turtle.
Dave and Sarah at Ke'e beach. This was our favorite snorkeling site. We saw a lot of tropical fish.
Every day it would rain, but just for a minute and it would be gone. You can see the rain in the background.
Dave and Sarah at Wailua Falls.
Sarah and Dave standing over the lookout point of the "Grand Canyon of the Pacific" It was a lot cooler up here than down at sea level. It also could have been the Hawaiian shaved ice we had just eaten. Mmmm.