Lynes Family: September 2008

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Traditions

When we were little I remember pulling off our shirts but leaving them on our heads and then strutting around pretending we had long, beautiful hair. I think I even said that: "Look at my long, beautiful hair!" in my most sophisticated voice. I was not home when Woodson took this picture but was pleased when I found it to know that somehow, without consciously doing it, the tradition had been passed on! Now to work on "Magic Toybox!"

Monday, September 29, 2008

The State Fair: Pumpkins

I LOVE the state fair! I love the rides. I love the stinky animals. I love the greasy food (that I don't eat because we're too cheap but you get almost as much grease just from the smell). I love the "Little Hands on the Farm." But mostly, I love the pumpkins. I can't help it. No matter how much time we have, if we go to the fair, we MUST visit the pumpkins. I think it began a few years ago when Woodson and I visited the Alaska state fair and saw "Thunderhorse." That was its name. And it was big enough for a name like that.

And I've never forgotten it. The sign said it weighed like 496 lbs (. . .or something.) Ever since then I've been fascinated with the big pumpkins. I mean, who grows these things? And do they sit there all summer long thinking, "Oh, I hope it keeps growing! I hope! I hope! Maybe we'll win 1st prize at the state fair this year if it . . .just. . . keeps. . . GROWING!" Or, as Woodson says, are they just injected full of farm steroids? I don't know! But as intriguing a picture as that second theory conjures up, I think I prefer the first one. I like to picture some lucky kid coming outside one day and walking by his garden - doo, da-doo - just walking along - and then "What

the?!" and seeing a Thunderhorse and saying, "Holy Cow! Mom, come look! We're DEFINITELY going to win THIS year!" Anyway, I've started taking pictures of us with the pumpkins each year. These first ones are from last year and I have to say - they were no Thunderhorse - but still, pretty impressive. This last picture is from this year and man, all I have to say about these is: No surprised lucky kids this year.

Fallin' for Fall

Well, it's taken me 30 (er. . . give or take 3 or 4) years to decide but, yep, I've finally decided that fall is officially my favorite season! We went up to a cabin near Aspen Grove Friday night and the colors were so GORGEOUS that I had to take a picture of us with them. This doesn't nearly do it justice, though! I should have taken a picture of the hillside! Seeing things that beautiful and being out in nature always makes me realize how great Heavenly Father and Jesus are. Our world is truly breathtaking and Heavenly Father knows every tiny bit of it and every star in the heaven. It makes me realize how incredible it is that He created and knows every single one of us and that there are so many people out there not aware of who they are and how I need to help everyone I can to realize it. Sometimes when I see something as beautiful as the mountains were that day I think Heavenly Father put it there just for me. That suddenly sounds quite self-absorbed but I think sometimes He really does put something there just for each of us to see.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

A little Genealogy

Well, I was doing a little genealogy lately - you know, like I do all the time - and came across some pictures I'd never noticed before of some little known relatives. I guess these were their graduation pictures or something. Attractive looking bunch. That one from 1966 is HOT.

Sharon, graduated 1968

Michelle, graduated 1974

Karen, graduated 1966

Tiffani, graduated 1994 (Talk about a good hair day! You don't get that kind of height just any day. She must have known it was picture day.)

Susan, graduated 1962

Who does Nicole REALLY look like?

I got this off Jen Davis' blog and even though she didn't believe it's very accurate (and neither do I after seeing Breken's results!) I still thought I would try it out - with a little experiment of my own. I have always thought Nicole looks more like Woodson but apparently that's not completely true! She only looks more like Woodson SOME of the time! Check out when!

MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebrities - Collage - Morph

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Things that I love to see

I am so blessed that I get to look at these faces every day! They make me so happy! After looking through some pictures I had taken recently I decided I would just post a few that made me smile - for various reasons - when I looked at them. Unfortunately, since we don't take pictures of ourselves very often, I didn't have a picture of Woodson - otherwise, he would be on here too! Anyway, here's a few of the things I love to see:

sweet little girls who love flowers

happy kids

chubby little bodies and necklaces

big smiles

my kids having fun

well, whatever this is, it makes me smile

Monday, September 1, 2008

Hawaii

Ok, we went to Kauai in August with our friends Jamie and Jared Richards and it was awesome! But I am way too lazy right now to write a lot about it

so instead here are just a few of the MILLIONS of pictures we took! Here's me bushwacking through some plants to a "secret" waterfall.

Here's Woodson diving off the cliff at the "secret" waterfall.

Hard to see us, but here we are on the other side of Queen's Bath, a little place in the rocks where we went snorkeling.

Here's Nicole after we got home and were still in the Hawaiian mood.

Here's us on a SECLUDED forest pathway

- ooh la la!
Here's me blowing a conch shell - pay no attention to that bright red price tag on the front - we were on a BEACH. . . with a shell chandelier hanging from a nearby palm tree.

Don't know if these captions will even be near the right pictures but here's Woodson and me swinging wildly from vines as we hiked down a hill to a "forbidden" waterfall. Well, the signs saying people had died there and the fence made it seem forbidden but the guide book sure made it sound like it was ok to go down!