Happy 42nd Birthday Rishi

 A beautiful sunrise on the way to school to start my birthday off right...

 Followed by family time.

 Ready for my birthday hike

 On the trail

 With my favorite Goldie

 And Josiah

 The Best Selfie I Ever Took

 My love

The Elusive Stuart

Nothing better on a birthday than spending time on hike with my family, except maybe eating frozen lemon pie on birthday with my family...which I did.

Day before Thanksgiving

Discovering new hikes,

Finding the sky,

Watching birds,

Stories, Family, Love, Being in the moment.

2 boys searching for independence.

10.14.15

When the 2 year old gets the phone to "play pictures" and make faces. Yes, that is Dad accidentally photoboming.

10.09.15

We picked the most gigantic apples off our tree today. 

10.07.15

My evenings work: cutting out a panda for Goldie's "poodle" skirt. We also read 40 pages in Holes and I did ALOT of dishes. I love my mom life!

Allen Family Hike 2015

Tuesday at the Family Reunion a bunch of us went on hike to Coffee pot Rapids.


After about a mile everybody took a break to play in the water. Mom, Stuart and I took pictures.




When we got going again, mom headed back to the car and Stuart decided he needed to hitch a ride on Aunt Charith


Amber has a new dog named Zick and Josiah stopped to give him some lovings.


When we reached the rapids we played around the water a bit more and a Gregg decided to jump in. So did Morgan and then the boys jumped in and saved her before she went down river.


In  the meantime Stuart took off aways back the way we came and so I went to catch up with him and then we kept going.


Brogan came with us and we were the only ones that hiked round trip. What a beautiful six miles we got in that day. It was awesome.


Thanks for the fun hike Nephi and Katherine.

Allen Family Reunion 2015

July 19...packed up in the car beginning a thirty four hour drive to Idaho! We started out at two in the afternoon traveling through Kentucky, Indiania and Illinois. After all the boys had fallen asleep we told Goldie if she could stay awake for 30 more minutes she would see the St. Louis Arch. She didn't make it.


We forged on through the night, traveling through Missouri and then Nebraska. We took a break at a rest stop when the kids woke up on the morning of the 20th.


By the end of the day we reached Wyoming and drove by the Wind Rivers. I wanted to jump out of the car, but just took pictures instead.


We arrived in Rexburg that night close to midnight and slept well. The next day we got to see Gid set apart at church and pass the sacrament and then we packed up and headed to Nephi's cabin in Island Park. From Sunday to Thursday we enjoyed the cabin, the beauty surrounding us, but most of all we enjoyed our family.


Mike and I went shopping with Kristina on Monday and saw this moose on our way back.




We had devotionals and family time. Arrel shared this picture with me from when he was a baby. he is in the middle.


Cousins got my phone and played!


I got to see a niece I hadn't seen in years. What a good, good thing. Love ya Kristina.